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Punk Rock: To celebrate the 45 year anniversary of Punk Rock by Virginia Boston, the first book on the scene, Beatie Wolfe put together this mix of the bands featured in her mother’s book.

As the UK punk scene exploded with raw energy and intensity, documentation was the last thought on anyone’s mind. Originally published in 1978 by Penguin, and described as “the first punk book,” Punk Rock by Virginia Boston (printed as Shockwave in the UK) is a must-have almanac, historical handbook, and visual and visceral reveal of a scene as it was bursting forth. As a London counterculture observer, writer Virginia Boston captured the Punk phenomenon from its beginnings in ’76, always through the eyes of the punks themselves.

Featuring all of the early first generation bands (The Sex Pistols, The Jam, The Damned, Generation X, The Slits, X-Ray Spex, Siouxsie and the Banshees and many more) and other now iconic figures, such as Soo Catwoman and Jordan, Punk Rock offers a rare insight into the heart of the movement via its extraordinary collection of photographs, quotes, lyrics, and interviews with the leading bands and figureheads. But perhaps most striking is the space it dedicates to the fans and their zines, complete with an introduction from Sniffin’ Glue editor Danny Baker. By doing so Punk Rock captures what was really going on in the clubs, away from the usual music weeklies and academics.

A scrapbook compendium of one of the shortest-lived yet most influential moments in music history, Punk Rock is an authentic time-capsule of the emergence of a counterculture that would forever change the world, but didn’t know it.

TRACKLIST:

  • Sex Pistols - God Save The Queen

  • X-Ray Spex - Germfree Adolescence

  • The Clash - Remote Control

  • The Jam - Art School

  • The Damned - Neat, Neat, Neat

  • The Stranglers - Get A Grip On Yourself 

  • X-Ray Spex - Identity

  • Generation X - Your Generation

  • Buzzcocks - Boredom

  • The Slits - Number One Enemy

  • The Adverts - Bored Teenagers

  • Subway Sect - Ambition

  • Eater - Outside View

  • Siouxsie and the Banshees - Carcass

  • The Vibrators - London Girls

  • X-Ray Spex - Oh Bondage! Up Yours! (Live at the Roxy Club, 1977)

  • Sham 69 - Rip Off

  • The Jam - Time For Truth

  • Sex Pistols - Anarchy in the UK

Beatie Wolfe