Where did punk music stem from?



Read England's Dreaming by Jon Savage.

All you need to know and more will be found in this classic.

A better book on the subject I've yet to find.
 
Benjamin said:
Malcolm McClaren got together the Sex Pistols as an idealistic expressionistic vision. He had experience from managing New York Dolls & getting them to pose in USSR garb to challenge/alienate audiences & critics. Either way it created controversy and headlines way above the status of the bands involved. What changed things was John Lydon. But the central point is no Sex Pistols no punk. Joe Strummer admits this and he was the one who put together the second greatest punk band. The Ramones were important but without the Pistols their status is marginal.
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Lydon got the job because Richard Hell didn’t fancy coming over from NYC permanently. So McLaren nicked Hells attire and transferred it onto the Pistols: Ripped t shirts held together by safety pins nd daubed with slogans.
Punk was a little bit of this and a little bit of that sourced from all ower.
 
riffraff said:
Lydon got the job because Richard Hell didn’t fancy coming over from NYC permanently. So McLaren nicked Hells attire and transferred it onto the Pistols: Ripped t shirts held together by safety pins nd daubed with slogans.
Punk was a little bit of this and a little bit of that sourced from all ower.
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This ^^

John Lydon and Glen Matlock both used to wear brothel creepers - very much 50s Teddy Boy attire.

Lydon at times to wore a pair of Oxford Pegs with his creepers - as you say, very much a bit of this and a bit of that.
 

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