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THE first British punk rock single, New Rose by The Damned, was released 40 years ago this month on October 22 1976.
I bought it on release and it was played a lot in a student occupation (against overseas students’ fees) that I was then involved in organising in Middlesbrough.
Perhaps the ultimate band of that era (along with the Sex Pistols), The Clash wrote (White Man) In Hammersmith Palais, a song about turning rebellion into money and that surely will be the dominant way that the 40th anniversary of punk is remembered.
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