July 30, 2012 by A.S. Van Dorston
We Made Ugliness Beautiful: ‘Punk Rock: An Oral History’
By John L. Murphy
Imagine 150 pioneering musicians, managers, artists, and fans settled into a commodious pub. The oldest are well into their 60s, the youngest have recently passed 50. Their spiky hair might be grey, if they still sport some. They tell one by one (if such order might be imagined in politely logical, topical and chronological sequence) of what they heard in the ‘60s and ‘70s on vinyl, and the singers they watched on television. Gradually, they speak of their involvement in what would be peddled—if not in British cities and on tabloid and official media until the summers of 1976 or 1977—as punk. Continue…
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