London, 1976, rolling blackouts, and a timeline of the first year of punk music
A turning point in music history.
The Clash
The radical bands that scared “the shit out of” Pete Townshend: “They’ll play it on the radio in LA”
“You can’t hear the words…”
The 1980s rock band Rod Stewart said needed to grow up: “Just haven’t matured”
The wrong kind of attitude.
Five times support bands destroyed the headliner: “We gotta follow these guys?”
“We blew everybody off the stage”.
‘Never Been in a Riot’: How a 1978 Clash parody launched a lasting post-punk institution
Still going strong to this day…
The 1979 album The Edge couldn’t imagine life without: “This is amazing”
The perfect kind of rock and roll bombast.