Punk & The New Wave 1976-1978 ~ The Way They Were

[@mookie714]

I'm so glad the commercials were not edited out. those were enjoyable bits of culture.

[@AllanOstermann]

This was my generation. I live in America and, when I was 16, used to pick up NME to find out who the next great ban was. We had Blondie, Talking Heads, Iggy, The Ramones, and Lou Reed. You guys had, well, everyone else. Thank you, Britain.

[@Pauleymack]

Allan Ostermann Yeah mate, but Ramones started it all. Street punks who couldn't play too well. The Pistols and their entourage were a load of pretentious students, also look at Joe Strummer, his dad was a diplomat and he was playing shite r n b before he saw Ramones in mid 76 and jumped ship, having said that, i do love the Clash n Pistols, Thank you Forest Hills and those 4 stupid punks who changed it all.

[@AllanOstermann]

I think 60s bands like The Velvet Underground and MC5 had a lot to do with it, too. I wasn't aware how many punks came from privileged backgrounds. I just saw a documentary on Paul Weller (The Jam, etc). He was a real working class hero. His dad was his manager. I respect that. Still love the others.

[@alejnikov]

Pauleymack They didn't. What they did (as before them VU and MC5) was show to everyone that more or less talentless duds - or say: non-musicians - can become rock stars and have (and provide) loads of fun. In England, Punk was completely different, much more serious, much more dangerous, and way more interesting.

[@PondRiversong]

Allan Ostermann Buddy, you had IGGY POP!

[@Cruithneach]

Allan Ostermann Indeed. Suggesting the Velvets (and practitioner of classical avant-garde, John Cale in particular) were non-musicians is pretty ludicrous

[@Josfen12]

The 80's commercials were just so magical

[@arthousefilms]

This entire video is absolutely packed with iconic performances. WOW

[@akoe1968]

nice live footage. that version of "passenger" is epic!

[@brantwatson9815]

Cheers! But any documentary on punk that doesn't start with The Ramones and omits The Damned is woefully incomplete. At least it starts out with " the story begins, for television, anyways..." which is true. Both Joe Strummer and Captain Sensible admitted there probably wouldn't be an English punk scene without The Ramones. I miss these days when bands were unique and pretty much anything goes.

[@alanboots1106]

Agreed We watched a doc the other night about modern Irish bands….never mentioned SLF. WTF was that all about

[@JetsonVinyl]

WOW! How great was it to see this. This is the music that made me who I am. Buzzcocks-XTC-Ian Dury-Magazine-Wreckless Eric- all of them!! My tears of joy are falling like the sweat from Nick Lowe's chin. This has been a real treat

[@Turtle152]

Boy, Iggy's been looking for his shirt for a long time now.

[@Shovlaxnet]

I didn't realize he ever had a shirt lol

[@patsymarts6685]

lol

[@jasonblitz7454]

hahahaha, heavenly comment!

[@tonelemoan]

0:50 John screams at me "Get off your arse!" just like my Dad used to. That's where the similarities begin and end. Also the irony of having the old guard Daltrey appear in a credit card ad is spot on.

[@marinalinnerhall5709]

För min syster på hennes 50 års dag! Grattis! Love foreever!

[@buzzawuzza3743]

We had to go to Greenwich Village to the Golden Disc and other import shops to find punk rock records. The other kids were stuck with Zep and Skynyrd and corporate rock and the girls listened to Poco and the hippies dug the Dead. I scribbled the lyrics to Clash songs on the chalkboard in high school and the teachers just laughed. My friends couldn't believe I didn't want to go with them to hang out and hear ELP.

[@andrewdeen1]

great performance by the jam on here

[@AthelstanEngland]

Was never particularly into The Jam at the time but hell they put on a show. Watching this, Penetration, Buzzcocks all live no mobiles no fancy dress no "safe spaces" I really think kids now are missing out on so much that we had.

[@TUBEMAN192]

Allison is my favorite love song of all time and this solo version is really top notch. Brings tears to my eyes just listening.

[@Anglo_Saxon1]

Costello is top notch.I still have the album "my aim is true"👍

[@whipsmartchris]

A love song? I guess so.

[@Nyquest]

Saw this when it aired in 1986. I was 15 punk wasn't even nostalgic then.It was still kind of recent... It was made by Granada & mostly shot in Manchester's electric circus......Amazing footage. Loved it then & love it now aged 43....I have sinced filmed many of these bands.

[@camerondodge2070]

Well, I'm glad there's others out there that consider Ian Dury punk. He always was, and always will be, one of the great songwriters and vocalists of punk rock, up there with John Lydon and Jello Biafra.

[@PAULLONDEN]

He was more part of the "new wave" as the video heading indicates , just like E. Costello , who was hardly "punk".

[@camerondodge2070]

Yeah, but new wave was considered part of punk in the beginning. It was called new wave so it could get places punk couldn't. For instance, Blondie are a new wave and pop rock band, but were part of the first wave of CBGB bands, playing with the Ramones and Dead Boys, and were welcomed in the community at the time. Same with Dury. It's one of those things of being punk without being punk rock, you know?

[@dvsmufc81]

Yeah Dury was more part of new wave, he never gozzed on anyone or stuck a safety pin through his ball sack put it that way.

[@prokesuk]

@@PAULLONDEN He was more pub rock than anything else, and he predated new wave. "New wave" like "punk" was a catch-all. A lot of stuff called punk and new wave was just power pop.

[@Gefahrbabushkin]

Doctor who called him punk! 😅

[@jessiefox3739]

I wish that Poly Styrene and the X Ray Spex and The Slits got more exposure :D Poly Styrene is so amazing and X Ray Spex are my favorite band right now and The Slits are all about girl power :D

[@grahamegillespie7121]

It was an absolute must I saw this having seen it on Channel 4 when it was originally broadcast. Thank you so much for posting 👍

[@MrHermesThoth]

Oh good heavens! What a time for the tape to run out! My favourite song from my favourite band! This is such a good doco!

[@1967PONTIACGTO]

the Pistols were so much better with Matlock on bass

[@BobLeeBoo]

1967PONTIACGTO he moves alot,and everyone moves alot,it was truly an energetic show,they really should have kept him

[@1967PONTIACGTO]

***** Sid definitely looked good up there, and the disaster that was his life kind of fit thematically...and he adds enormously to the legend, so yeah, you have to love Sid too ...but musically, Glen really makes the whole thing tight

[@sergejisd]

+1967PONTIACGTO especially 'cause he was the main songwriter

[@Nigelxman]

+1967PONTIACGTO Sid looked good? He looked like what he was, a strung out heroin addict with zero musical talent.

[@Nigelxman]

+1967PONTIACGTO Sid looked good? He looked like what he was, a strung out heroin addict with zero musical talent.

[@lauralewis673]

How in the hell did they miss The Damned???

[@AlmostReady504]

Same way they missed the Ramones

[@Shikta-poobah67]

Because these things are always biased and revisionist. There’s always some bozo who’s gonna tell everyone who he/she thinks “mattered” and who didn’t… often times by completely ignoring them as if they never even existed. I mean, never mind the fact that The Damned were *THEE* first UK punk band to release a single, the first to release a full length album, the first to play in America, the first to break up, and the first to reform.

[@maddog8621]

Goddammit!!!!

[@duckofearl]

Wow, glad someone else watched and taped this. My introduction to punk. Loved, The Fall, Wreckless Eric and The Jam. The whole lot actually.

[@glennoc8585]

Lived those times as a young lad in the 70s. I used to buy the NME when i was 10 and looking back i can't believe i read it.

[@richardgoffin-lecar5001]

I love this!!! It's a real blast from the past for me. Although I was never a punk as such, I always loved the music - especially the more 'creative' aspects of it. I'm still a massive fan of Tom Robinson and Elvis Costello, and regularly listen to them now. Thank you for uploading this gem!

[@musashielmaldito6848]

You were there dont ya lover

[@flopimus]

This is awesome! The music, commercials! Nice snapshot of early 80s England

[@drbowers100]

great early clip of XTC .saw them around this time ,first punk/new wave i saw ,apart from the support band ,the Now..............fekin brill times................

[@mynheerp]

the great Ian Dury drumming with Wreckless Eric!

[@Ingens_Scherz]

This is fantastic stuff. I just miss this kind of raw insight and integrity. Just makes me realise how truly owned and fucked we are today.

[@somewhattunedin3229]

These are great but there's good stuff in every generation.

[@ronzombie6541]

It got worst!

[@TheFokker03]

what a huge load of memories there.siouxsie & the banshees for me.what a dream girl,my idol.

[@tinyscruggs]

Damn shame that tape failed. That last track was amazing. Thank you so much for posting this.

[@adrienneparker8614]

yes I do so love my punk, what a fantastic time in our lives, plus a goldmine of the pioneers of punk.....loving all this.......ap

[@joachimpeiper8076]

Despite the punk movement, The Pistols and the Clash were real legends in the entire history of music over the ages

[@NoirL.A.]

hell yeah THE RAMONES too that stuff is so accepted now it's almost considered classic rock. and yes i agree several punk bands over the years have been absolutely epic. DEAD KENNEDY'S, THE BUZZCOCKS, BAD RELIGION, etc. love it.

[@BoudicaJ]

@@NoirL.A. NO THE IN BUZZCOCKS .. oh ... you're an American

[@NoirL.A.]

@@BoudicaJ say what?

[@iidpack1865]

Stranglers are the real legends

[@deanpesaturo6401]

@@NoirL.A.If it wasn’t for the Buzzcocks there’d never have been a Green Day. They ripped off their entire act and I like them. Therefore they are thieves not to mention the fake English voice of Billy Joe Armstrong!? Wtf really.,? The Buzzcocks; Stiff Little Fingers are the absolute best example of this. Listen to them and see for yourself if you don’t agree with millions of others. Bad Religion wasn’t even around in the early years of punk’s existence until they became hugely popular in the early 90’s obviously 🙄. Sincerely, DJP Anal Cunt; Postmortem and Kilslug Sony; Earache 🇬🇧 Columbia and TAANG!! Records @ ALL RIGHTS RESERVED Boston Massachusetts Amerikkka quite recently heading into oblivion 🔥

[@aristotle358]

Great upload! Thanks for posting. By the way, I can't get over how many people don't know that Glen Matlock was the original bass player and main song writer of the Pistols. Sid couldn't play for toffee apples.

[@electricleg207]

+aristotle358 He could`nt even play for heroin!

[@aristotle358]

electricleg Chuckles! :-)

[@corbindallas18]

cheers

[@keithderinger7140]

+aristotle358 for toffee apples, i gotta brush up on my british slang :)

[@vermilliongecko]

+keith deringer I'm British and I've never said for toffee apples. People normally say for toffee.

[@jeffsmith1344]

Thank you so much for making this available, it's priceless.

[@aaarrrggghhhh]

Brilliant. Nice to see Jordan getting a few words in. Cool woman.

[@TheJaseDisgrace]

Thankyou so much for uploading this! I taped this when it was on, on a V2000 cassette. All these years later I bought a V2000 player explicitly to retrieve this and put it on DVD, only to find the footage has deteriorated beyond belief! Awesome program with some superb iconic performances from The Jam, XTC, Blondie and the best version of Alison by Elvis Costello...!

[@boychildnew1]

It's a funny coincidence that those four guys all had an epileptic fit at the same time and the same place on the dance floor at 13.00 min. Nice!

[@jelkel25]

I can remember seeing this clip of Iggy doing the passenger when I was at school and it just utterly changed my world. There was something out there beyond the mediocrity and spoon fed garbage you are told is 'normal' every day of your life and all you had to do was search it out. Just mindblowing.

[@jelkel25]

I've seen him in action three times and he never lets the side down, always amazing.

[@Dmytro-g5f]

Angela Payne no-no-no! only Elvis!

[@Dmytro-g5f]

Слоны Идутнасевер ...and XTC

[@LIZZIE-lizzie]

The Sex Pistols were a phenomenon and GREAT! I continue to love Johnny Rotten. His band PIL - Public Image Limited is one of my fav bands. The album Blue Water is really good! I love the song in the vid, "What Do I Get" . The image and now shadow of Sid Vicious will always hang over that particular era of punk and it wz so outstanding. It gave people a new look, new style of dressing that male/females loved; hair, clothes, jewelry that are still incorporated into todays' street gear. In The Chelsea Hotel, Sid Vicious carved his name in the metal of the elevator emergency key pad. Iz still there and always will be.

[@digger5521]

I feel the same way, music was at a stalemate till the Pistol brought punk to mainstream. There were Punk bands around way before them but they brought it out of the darkness. The lyric " And Englands Dreaming" probably more poignant now with Brexit LOL

[@camerondodge2070]

And then that look was forced upon people if they wanted to play punk, and what we got by the 80s was a fascist like state of what you can play, what you can listen to, and what you have to look like. The Dead Kennedys were right, punk wasn't dead, but it deserved to die at that point.

[@deanpesaturo6401]

The RAMONES were around in the early 1970’s and Malcolm McClaren totally ripped off their style and brought it back to England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Everyone’s known that for awhile now. The Sex Pistols weren’t even supposed to be a band; they were hired to promote the shoppe off Carnaby Row SEX. The owner didn’t want Malcolm McLaren ever taking their models and they were getting tired of hanging around doing nothing ffsakes. Read a book called “ England!s Dreaming” and it tells ya everything about exactly what was happening with the royal family and how John Lydon felt about the monarchy and the royal families in general. That’s why he had a great idea 💡 when the boat loaded up with amplifiers took to the Thames River at the same time the Queen was having her Jubilee and the Sex Pistols invaded the yacht 🛥️. They were fined as well arrested and charged with interfering with a vessel carrying more tonnage than was allowed. A bullshit charge for certain! I’m not even getting into The Dammed being the very first group by the time the Pistols were known. Thanks for listening. Sincerely DJP Anal Cunt; Postmortem and Kilslug Sony; Earache 🇬🇧 Columbia and TAANG!! Records @ ALL RIGHTS RESERVED Boston Massachusetts Amerikkka quite obviously 🙄 Ok. The Dammed beat the Pistols by 1 year. Honest.

[@deanpesaturo6401]

@@digger5521I agree with your assessment of Brexit. Sincerely DJP Anal Cunt; Postmortem and Kilslug Sony; Earache 🇬🇧 Columbia and TAANG!! Records @ ALL RIGHTS RESERVED Boston Massachusetts quite obviously 🙄 Amerikkka of course..

[@deanpesaturo6401]

@@camerondodge2070Google US.GOV and see for yourself what’s going on right underneath your very own nose. Jello was actually on the money though! Sincerely, DJP Anal Cunt; Postmortem and Kilslug Sony; Earache 🇬🇧 Columbia and TAANG!! Records @ ALL RIGHTS RESERVED Boston Massachusetts Amerikkka quite obviously 🙄 I rest my case.

[@christiaanvannoppen6015]

what a freakin awesome doco. Too bad it cut out in the middle of Magazine - Bazza Adamson is still one of me all time faves. Thanks heaps doco uploader person!

[@Tayloradrift]

Brilliant. I have a VHS version of this. I recorded it when the programme was first aired on TV - Complete with all the adverts of the time.

[@tether1887]

This programme was broadcast in 1991 (I think). It also had footage of The Undertones and ended with Joy Division doing "Shadowplay" on Granada TV in 1978. There may have been others...

[@Darrenski]

'86 on granada

[@MisterElement]

Incredible Upload!!! Thanks so much!!! I learned A LOT and was enamored the whole way through......only to be shot even higher with that Siouxie clip at the end!!! Can't wait to show it to my Drag Queen Daughter, she'll flip her wig fer sure!!! The Jam, Buzzcocks and Iggy spots captured my attention 100%....and now I want to know more about XTC and Tom Robinson Band!!!!!

[@emmaduncan2991]

Tom Robinson's Glad to be gay" a remarkable achievement for 1977, the fact that it has not lost any of it's power, and is still just as timely and relevant, is both sad and something of a miracle.

[@TheVibeDetective]

@George Otty On the one hand - I agree with you, on the other - I also don't agree with you.

[@Romulo1967]

Excellent! the adverts too!

[@mikeyratcliff3400]

Thank you Mr bullock, love yer likkle symbol, made me feel young again, keep the faith as the northern soul people say, with love from an ole traveller now living on a narrowboat, once again, thank you! Xxx

[@diskochimp]

Great to see this again, ta for the upload. :)

[@paulmarshall4815]

I love the fact the original adverts are on this TV classic!

[@christo792]

The late 70s kicked off an amazing amount of creativity. Great bands and a sense of excitement that hasn't come up since, and it doesn't seem likely that it ever will. (But then before Punk there was Bohemian Rhapsody and Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, so a change probably seemed unlikely then).

[@1980extremeG]

What about the Grunge bands of the 90s then and the Nu Metal bands of the early 00s, like Slipknot? Plenty of exciting music has happened since the 70s, much more so actually....

[@usualdosage7287]

​@@1980extremeGnu metal is shit

[@deanpesaturo6401]

@@1980extremeGEvery single band from The Accused to Nirvana to the NELVINS OBVIOUSLY 🙄 they are one of the greatest bands of all time and don’t forget some others like Jane’s Addiction and Voi Vod 🇨🇦 Sincerely DIY

[@1980extremeG]

@@deanpesaturo6401 The best Grunge band in my opinion, and my favourite, Is Alice in Chains.

[@AlanTimms]

Best time to be a teenager in the UK :-)

[@keithbate9405]

Yeah and it has endured. The way the band members looked and dressed then Cloths /hairstyles etc looks modern . as Wilson said he belonged to a bygone (Hippee = long air/ flares etc. )

[@FFM0594]

So glad I found this (without looking) Fate!

[@BrandonBailey2113]

great set of videos but those old skool commercials were geeking me out haha!

[@ianjones4116]

Never mind the pistols or Iggy or xtc,, The Buzzcocks !! Brilliant thrash, lookxat him play that guitar.

[@matthewjdouglas6471]

Fast track, what do I get

[@mr.bloodvessel260]

Amazing there was a Roger Daltry Amex commercial during this!

[@501pete]

i remember when guitars had leads plugged in

[@clairejensen4859]

Thanks for posting D Bullock sure awakens the old memories of my days with a Mohican haircut & zips all over my clothing including my knickers exclusively for my then bf when we were up to all sorts in a bus shelter not actually waiting for a bus lol

[@heli-crewhgs5285]

Bit of a goer, were you Claire?

[@markkelly3859]

Iggy Pop stands out. The performance is not just a nostalgic curiosity.

[@carlodave9]

+Mark Kelly. Yep. Gotta love that crazy intensity.

[@Heatfarmer]

+Mark Kelly That first TV appearance by the sex pistols isn't really nostalgic curiousity either. Neither is Elvis Costello or The Buzzcocks!!

[@Heatfarmer]

+Cheryl McLachlan-Spencer i know, but none of the ones i mentioned are nostalgic curiousities today, if you ask me....ok, iknow... you didnt! ;-)

[@carlodave9]

Lars Melsted Thomsen I'm guessing you're British? Didn't mean to offend. Iggy helped create the wake all the punks went riding on. MC5, Iggy, and Alice Cooper all seem more significant to me because they were doing stripped down, disrespectful, iconoclastic rock way before the others you mentioned.

[@Heatfarmer]

+Carlo Dave No, i am danish ;-) And i agree, that it didnt all come out of nowhere. Don't forget The who, Velvet Underground, Bowie, Little Richard, Link Wray, jerry Lee and not least Chuck Berry, who all were significant inspirations and not least had their fair share of bad publicity due to their attitude, rawness and shock effect of their music!

[@shawneenation9326]

Dury playing the drums on Whole Wide World with Wreckless Eric is amazing

[@ferroxglideh5621]

The camera operator for the Jam set was a genius.

[@hippyIM1]

OH BLISS!!!Remember the Bill Grundy interview when I was 6 on the telly,my mother and father were rolling on the floor in stitches.

[@commoneuropeanstarling]

Thanks for this!! Had it on VHS at the time. Exactly as I remember it. The John Cooper Clarke poem is brilliant. You'll never see a nipple in the Daily Express

[@pranger37]

I know you put this out over ten years ago, It just came out on my feed. I’m glad it did. Thanks for finding this and sharing it with everyone.

[@eliane2743]

Motorcade is a most dangerous song… I mean, time and again I’ve been listening to it while driving and suddenly realised I had been pressing down on the gas pedal following the acceleration of the tune… way past the speed limit. Happily I never crashed like the tape did.

[@Richard0470]

Goodness I haven't seen this since its original airing around 1987?? Thanks so much for posting & in great quality

[@pancrack]

THIS WAS ORIGINALLY BROADCAST IN 1986.

[@LozVegas]

Top upload!! Love Tony Wilson/Factory - the Ian Dury prayer was great as well! Also thank you for keeping the 80s adverts on! - memory lane!!! :D

[@glenn9229]

Awesome early Blondie......what a classic performance so punk. So many other lesser bands that deserve so much more in acknowledgement as playing a huge part in the music revolution of the time; Penetration, Siouxsie and the Banshees, the fantastic Ian Dury and early Elvis Costello (not the poxy 80s version). The eternal question of where punk started.....many of the usual early bands acknowledge an Australian band, The Saints who started in 1973 (and were quickly banned from venues) as at least part of their influence. Check out their first single (I'm) Stranded

[@crieff1sand2s]

Wreckless Eric with Ian Drury on drums👍👍👍👍 industrial estate +psychmafia...😀😀a think that was Devo sitting next to Jordan any footage of them??? fuckingbrilliant

[@rottyangel770]

The Sex Pistols actually had some very melodic music.

[@sexobscura]

Because it was Pop music

[@jerrycrow66]

Indeed! Not to everyone’s taste! But loads of bands came along after them! 🙂

[@7karlheinz]

I love the XTC footage! I saw Barry Andrews playing a naked Farfisa organ years later with Fripp's League of Gentlemen.

[@Musichead1968]

Cracking stuff indeed! Forgive my anorak tendencies but Bazza's deathtrap keyboard is actually a cheap(!) equivalent to a Farfisa, namely a Crumar Group 49. I'd like to think it's still working...

[@Musichead1968]

Cracking stuff indeed! Forgive my anorak tendencies but Bazza's deathtrap keyboard is actually a cheap(!) equivalent to a Farfisa, namely a Crumar Group 49. I'd like to think it's still working...

[@robstellung]

Love the fact that the adverts are included. A second edition of this was broadcast in 1991 as More Punk Than New Wave. 1.02:54 - Mick Hucknall, bottom right, not moving as much as his neighbours. He is more visible in The Clash footage of the same night.

[@stevierichie]

I have this on a VHS somewhere. I think it was August 1986 when i recorded it. Not seen it for years so thanks for posting.

[@stephenkay4008]

Total Time Capsule - adverts and all! Thank you!!

[@TheSilversurfer61]

Surprised that nobody misses WIRE!

[@ferroxglideh5621]

+TheSilversurfer61 Too right! Buzzcocks AND Magazine, but no Wire, no Damned, no Joy Division....

[@alanboots1106]

I was so lucky to se a lot of these when I was a yoof.

[@tomfaulkner6616]

Ian Dury on the drums for Wreckless Eric?!

[@BenGenderson]

This is fantastic

[@FabianBom]

I remember watching this at the time and wondered how The Stranglers, the most commercially successful band of the period were totally ignored.... Tony Wilson though and his Kronies had their own version of events though I guess...

[@iidpack1865]

So true, Stranglers are one of the best bands yet everyone ignores them

[@tacomadc]

I'm so glad they did the reunion with Glenn - he was always their real bassist to me.

[@ehought]

yea - vicious was always more of a mascot for the pistols than anything else

[@mikebryan7060]

Sex Pistols were so much better with Glen Matlock. Fact.

[@MattAttack54]

John Maher of the Buzzcocks one of best punk drummers of all time

[@CelticSaint]

Wow! I saw this when it was broadcast! Have never forgotten it! Thanks for the upload.

[@mikebryan7060]

Brilliant film, all performances new to me. Absolute stand out track for me is the Penetration . Just wow. Sex Pistols so much better with Glen Matlock and here is the proof. Was that Ian Dury i saw drumming for Wreckless Eric ? Anither stellar performance right there. The whole film is just superb.

[@sicks6six]

lost count of how many times I've seen JCC, he was support X3 at just about every gig I went to from 76 - 78 . most people went to the bar when he was on until Beasley Street then everyone was into poetry,

[@martinhyizna3299]

Such rare early footage. Thank you!

[@MrTUCTUC1]

The irony of the advert at 28:09. In the middle of a documentary about punk, which was a reaction against how out of touch too many rock stars were, we have Roger Daltrey talking about the trout farm he owns and advertising American Express...

[@ferroxglideh5621]

+Jeff Featherstone No doubt this is why the stance of these musicians seemed so out of left field at the time. Watching the Jam footage made me think of the Who on fast forward. On the other hand, Tame the acid, tiger!

[@robsawalker]

Watched this so many times, just brilliant. Stop gobbing at me!

[@fatovamingus]

Dude who said the Pistols were so much better with Matlock on bass...of course they were! They were an actual BAND for awhile. Then they were McLaren's circus.

[@PondRiversong]

This show first aired in '87 as "10 Years of Punk". I still have it in full on VHS, but, alas, no means of transferring it to KZbin.

[@eracer1111]

Dude - you can do it if you have the will...

[@jcripp7974]

Elvis Costello is a whole different kind of great compared to these other bands. Wish they let Johnny and The Heartbreakers do a song

[@Teeb2023]

Fuckin' behave. There's a wealth of raw influence in this video.

[@FrontmanVideo]

Ahhhh man, Buzzcocks........SOOOO good!!!!

[@Moontwister1]

What a fantastic compilation! Sorry, I'd add more, but I must go pogo.

[@fergussaint-john2535]

thankyou for the upload. brilliant 👏👏👏

[@robertommundsen9155]

lots of interesting footage.never seen this before.wonderful

[@benzedrinjoe]

I had it on a VHS tape, recorded straight from Polish TV in 1988. Great doc!

[@satomiwa]

It's weird seeing so many comments from people claiming punk started in Britain. When I was a little Alice Cooper and Kiss-obsessed 11/12 year old Canadian kid, I used to read about the "Punk" scene happening in New York. Some of the bands weren't actually FROM New York, there were some from Cleveland or other places who made the move to New York, but New York was definitely where it was all coming together. There were little 2-page spreads with black & white photos in "Rock Scene" I think it was, featuring the Ramones , Blondie, Heartbreakers, etc, and then the January '76 first issue of "Punk" Magazine came out at the end of '75. But the thing was, I didn't know what any of those groups sounded like because I don't think any of them had records out, and most of the groups they were inspired by (Velvet Underground, MC5, Stooges, New York Dolls, etc) never sold very well, so their albums which are today all considered "proto-punk" classics, were out of print at the time. If you were lucky, you could find one or two of them in the delete bin for cheap. Later on, when the Sex Pistols came along and made headlines in Britain, they were called "Punk" because I guess they shared some things in common with the American Punk bands, like the general sense of dissatisfaction with the stale and bloated state of "rock" music at the time, not to mention a similar aesthetic sense with the tight clothes and black leather and lots of them looking like Richard Hell with his spiked hair and torn shirts, safety pins and all that - but as much as the Pistols and the English Punk scene had in common with the earlier American Punk scene, there were just as many differences. I liked the amateurishness of the English scene, and that's what inspired me to start a band of my own much more than the American groups (although I learned by playing along to the Ramones), but saying Punk started in Britain is just silly.

[@markcarter8670]

You're totally right that what we think of as punk now started in the US but, like a lot of music, the interpretation of the term changed before it reached the general public. It's sort of like goth or grunge. Ask the general public to name goth and grunge bands and they'll name Manson and Nirvana. Anyone who was there will name Joy Division and Prong instead, but by the time the public heard about punk, goth, or grunge, they'd all been subjected to a certain amount of streamlining. The scenes solidified and homogenized and by the time the public embraced them, they'd become a product rather than a movement. Personally, I consider bands like Blondie, Talking Heads, and Television as punk, but I'd have a hard time convincing anyone under 30 today. There was some transfer of punk to Britain pretty early on, however. The New York Dolls went over there earlier. The Ramones were there by July '76. Patti Smith was over there early, twice. Blondie and Television were both there in May '77. They inspired a whole bunch of Brit bands who exaggerated American punk and carried it back to America. It's the same thing that happened to rock & roll in general. We invented it. The Brits exaggerated it and sent it back. The first time they called it "the British invasion" and it was bands like the Beatles and Stones. The term "New Wave" was meant to include the next wave of Brit bands bringing the next wave of rock, the Sex Pistols, etc. Personally, I think punk lost a little of it's intellectual/literary side when it moved from bands like Television, Talking Heads, and Blondie to the Sex Pistols and the Clash.

[@mrwho3425]

satomiwa no one gives a

[@FabianBom]

America invented the work Punk for sure, but at the same time as MC5, the Stooges and VU were over in the States doing their thing we had a similar music scene in the UK with T Rex, Bowie and many others performing similarly, not to mention pub rock, with Ducks Deluxe, Doctor Feelgood and the like. The social environment in the UK in 1976 / 77 was really poor and what led to punk in the UK bore little common ground with either the US or earlier UK stuff. The Stranglers of course were touring in the UK from 1975 too and were the most commercially successful UK band of that period that might be called punk, even though they probably weren't... Either way, not important, I just love great music and to argue about the origins is hardly punk in itself ;-)

[@jabberthebut]

Who cares where it started, we all benefited from the resulting music

[@Darrenski]

Who cares. All the best music comes from Britain one way or another. It's irrelevant where something started. It will always find a new meaning and be perfected in Britain.

[@leftoverking]

that was great! brings back lots of musical memories.

[@guerrillapress77]

the jam was truly epic here!!

[@earinsound]

Love the Roger Daltrey (The Who) American Express commercial.

[@xtstevie]

The best music program ever !! Great memorys

[@timcoe82]

I had this on VHS, in fact I still have, direct from Ch4. Loved it.