British punk

The United Kingdom has played a huge role in inventing and popularizing the punk rock sound and the punk movement in general. British punks disdained the overproduced blandness of BBC music and took inspiration from the pub rock movement, the transgressive theatrics of glam rock, and the classic rock n roll of the 50s. Anti-establishment New York punks such as Ramones and the New York Dolls also struck a chord in a very class-divided and economically depressed Britain. Read more…|Edit this Artist photo: The Jam

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  • fantasyinstereo

    my favorite punk

    July 2012

  • Vino-G

    Bob Fucking Geldoff?. Just because a guy in a band can't sing doesn't make them Punk :P

    October 2009
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