Punk

The music, fashion, art, and attitude of the punk subculture; featuring interviews with punk pioneers, photos, archival film, and music; with Johnny Rotten, Marky Ramone, Debbie Harry, Flea, Dave Grohl, Jello Biafra, Legs McNeil, and Danny Fields.
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Punk
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The proto-punks of the Detroit scene, including the Stooges and MC5, put the 1960s to bed and reinvigorate the N.Y. art-music scene, inspiring the New York Dolls and the Ramones, giving outsiders a milieu to express themselves and start a revolution.

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Punk
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The Ramones visit London in 1976 to discover a vibrant U.K. punk scene; the Second British Invasion of America includes the Sex Pistols' disastrous U.S. tour and flameout in 1978.

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The Germs, Bad Brains, Black Flag, DOA, and others dump gas on smoldering rage and alienation in U.S. suburbs, igniting a blazing form of hardcore punk, which, in turn, inspires a DIY culture and network that comes to define the genre.