Britain celebrating 40 years of punk music 

In the 80s, I ripped my jeans and wear them as my "punk uniform" and my parents, siblings, neighbors will tell me that I look untidy. At present day, they are the ones wearing ripped jeans bought from a department store and I think the jeans cost more with more rips. .. the irony.

I’m a metalhead myself but punk definitely has a special place in my heart! 🤘🏻🖤💀punk rock for life!

There's so much misunderstanding of what Punk is. It's about being your own master and truly standing up for what you believe in. It's pretty ironic how a lot of people who consider themselves Punk (mainly by the way they dress) all dress the same.

Goth guy here, Punk will always be our cousin. Without Punk, there would be no goth.🤘🏼🖤

Metal,Punk,Rock is all thats needed in life

_When you're in your 40's and your family finally figures out its not a phase...._

I went to England on a vacation in 1978 and found the people walking around in trash bags funny and original. Punk came to Edmonton, but not as dramatically as to London. I am all for self-expression.

I definitely don‘t look punkish, I wear no spikes, don‘t have a mohawk and only wear dresses. But I have an old friend who was a punk (and probably still is, he‘s just too proud to admit it), love punk music, old and new, and take great interest in the history of punk. You guys are awesome.

I always say, punk is more of an attitude than a sound. Punk rockers aren’t always in punk bands and you don’t have to have a huge bright colored Mohawk and a leather jacket to be a punk

Punk proved one thing, if nothing else: there are more alienated people out there than just the one or two you know at school. I see a lot of lamentations about punk having become mainstream, but the thing is: there are thousands of the alienated out there. The real underlying cause is this: to make it in this world, you have to have three things: Good looks, good intelligence, and you have to know the right people and be in their good graces. A lot of the early punks were intelligent, most were good looking, but the few that knew the right people definitely were not in their good graces. I'm also reminded of a line in the song Anarchy is Now a Product: "Now if you want the revolution/ You're part of the establishment." Punk had underground places all over, even in places you wouldn't think punk would flourish, like Texas and Florida USA.

Punk is not just music, is an ecosystem. And those who never visited it, will never understand...

The name pop punk is a self contradiction. Punk was created to rebel against pop. You can't have "pop punk."

When I heard The Clash i was so happy

I love all the kinds of punk 🎵 : punk 🧷 punk rock Ⓐ ska punk 🏁 crust punk 🔗 street punk ✊ skate punk 🛹 hardcore punk 👊 horror punk 👻 pop punk 🎸 celtic punk 🍀 folk punk 🤠

Punk will never fucking die...i.m still a punk and will be til I.m fucking dead...

PUNK FOREVER

Born a rocker die a rocker 👍

I'm 40.i still ride a skateboard and still a punk.i don't dress like it.i have my own sense of fashion.skatboarding and punk rock go hand and hand.its a way of life.if your true to the life,it never leaves you.

We need this again, but there's no anger towards commercial pop and rap, which worries me. I'm guessing people are so glued to their phones to care about a revolution

punk rock isn't about spikey hair and dressing up its about attitude and being unique the ramones were punk in its purest form

Siouxsie❤️

8:38 the true punk. answering posh lady with her own mimicked gestures, With his polite, comedic manner. that's punk attitude when they'are older. Salud!

I am a rocker, colombian rocker and lover of heavey metal, greetings of colombia, yeah

Now, seven year olds have mohawks and their clueless parents bask in the nostalgia of a Blink 182 song.

Punk was my era and my music. I was 15 in 1977 and I was hooked on it as soon as I heard new rose by the damned , holidays in the sun and complete control by the clash. Now over 40 years later I still go to gigs to see cover bands. Last year I saw the Damned for the first time and they were brilliant. A lot has happened in 40 years music wise but I can safely say I prefer early punk to the rubbish that is being churned out today. Once a punk always a punk.

I was punk when I was a teen in the last 70's early 80's ... what a time my god !!!

40 years of punk music is sex pistols, the damned, the clash and two three more? thats it? there are so many other bands they´ve started in this spirit and grown up in the 80ies, 90ies till today. they all was/are particles of punk music.

I was one of the first punks in my town. What first turned me away from conventional rock? The Stranglers

Hmmmm... You know, I kind of feel like the focus on punk aesthetic is the mark of a square. Didn't hear anything about how disastrous the economic policies at the time were on working families whose kids spawned punk and how stadium rock had this complete disconnect from young people who weren't going to shell out serious coin to hear those kinds of acts. The media really learns nothing. Just like with hip hop. When pop culture prices itself out of the market, people will make their own damned music. And then the intelligentsia tries to describe it on their own terms instead of actually listening. That said, wtf does Corre know? Sell that shit to some rich bastard for whatever his precious little market will bear and feed the poor. Officious fucker.

Im English but American hardcore/punk is so much better but post punk is where Britain thrives

As usual they just focus on the first years when the biggest recordlabels released records with punkbands. All the years after when it was just as many people involved who kept the scene alive by doing things themselves (Do It Youself-ethics) gets ignored. It´s like if it´s underground and independent it doesn´t exist? When Joe Corre´s burn stuff it´s just a publicity stunt to get some free advertisment but his arguments about punk is valid to some extent. It´s a shame though that he more or less just burn money. He could get the same amount of attention if he officially declared that he should sell this stuff but then give the money to charity because of his discontent with the progress and status of punk nowadays. I get a bit suspicious though that a privileged rich kid all of a sudden cares so much about punk and politics when he doesn´t seem to have cared the slightest before maybe it have become chic to be radical again?

Im A Punk In Finland ❤ it's pretty dead in here but im trying to keep it alive

I am from the 80's and I still love it in 2021. Once in your veins , stays there forever.

I find it amusing that they play London Calling (1979) over a clip of an exhibit representing 1976-78

Met Charlie Harper , Steve Jones and Paul cook and killing joke all early 80s ...great music back then

punk is not on the outside, punk is in your heart. punk forever..

Punks not dead in the U.S either!

I'm 13 and "punk", yes, you read right. I'm apparently too young to understand punk and too young to be a punk, but who cares? I'm who I am and someone telling me I can't won't stop me!!!

New generations have become very bland, we need some kind of rage that shakes them off from that boring nowadays pop music that has invaded the web and the whole media. I love the energy as attitude that Punk music brings to everyone. Yeah!!!

5:45 I love that that guy's rebelling against the rebellious and thus, in a way, giving in to them.

Been punk since 77 59 now

Nice touch to include Charlie Harper. A real punk legend! The Subs have never stopped touring! Hardest gigging band on the planet!

each decade there is music that defines the era and holds the history and story's. I loved and love the punk era. I still rate the music and the memories they trigger.

Could I just say how they glossed over some really big American punk bands as well? Like the Ramones, Dead Kennedy’s, and Black Flag...

I don't even listen to punk rock much myself, but I'm still glad it came into existence, since it basically sparked so many different musical genres that I listen to today, thank you for that punks! ^.^ ♫

Saw the U.K. Subs in Toronto like 13 years ago. It was a drunken blur but they were amazing and I believe only charged $12 to get in. I'm totally going to be that sweaty 50 year old in the crowd one day!

I have loved Punk rock music since I was a baby and small kid growing up in Orange county California back in the 2000's now I am 19 and still love it .One of my favorite Punk rocks bands is The Scarred

I've met the UK subs in Santa Cruz Ca Charlie is good as it gets. This brings back great times

Punk's not dead in Switzerland 🤘🏼

I'm a punk in the US

Diminished responsibility was my first album. Changed my life.

This is a Fantastic tribute! Thank You CBC!

The punk movement is about now and how the music reverberates around the world

3 days into listening to punk and i recognized most of the songs

Glen Matlock wrote back to me after I wrote a Tweet on the passing of the Queen. A true gentleman who deserves all our respect.

I grew up in the 80s west coast punk scene. Stilll love it and live it every day

I need more of that guy at 0:24 haha...he looks soooo cool

Rip sid vicious

8:35 the Perfect Answer for that Question!!

Punk as a genre may have started to form in the US firstly, but it was much more than that in England, it was a movement. England defined the genre and made it into a cultural phenomenon. The roots? Yeah, mostly American. So punk wouldn't have existed without either one of these countries.

Punk was, maybe became, more about the ideas than the music. Disenfranchised youth and anger at the establishment is alive and well. I think those either obsessed to distraction or angry at perceived defacement of the the past are missing the point. Those couple of crucial years in the 70's and 80's gave birth to a great genre of music, yes. But they created a culture of defiance and free speech that evolved and progressed. Punk as a concept has changed names and faces over the years, but it is alive and well, even if you wouldn't recognize it now.

Punks not Dead in Germany

Thanks for that.Some excellent footage there.Pity i was a couple of years older as i was into Stooges,MC5,The Velvets,The NY Dolls and Nuggets etc.It was great that Punk came along at that time though , as things needed shaking up.A lot of people had got into Pub Rock as let's face it just who would want to listen to triple Yes albums ! The Ramones first album really set things off again.

Great early clip of 999 at beginning makes a change i got into punk in the 70's age 13 in London my 1st ever gig same year Siouxsie and the Banshees before debut album came out im nearly 56 now still love it never stopped going to gigs etc its got me to travel with bands loads around uk / Europe /USA see them all properly meet the real people from those places before & after gigs but especially the people who put you up way was done no amount of money could ever buy & without punk would never of had the amazing chances i have & happy to say ive never downloaded a thing in my life

PUNK AND PROUD PUNK OUT LOUD

i like being punk but it's stressful cuz it takes courage

I'm hip hop head but i love punk and metal🤟🏾🤟🏾🤟🏾🤟🏾

Great report, thank you CBC News.

Nostalgia is nauseating

I'm an old (50) punk from Ottawa. Rock the multi-coloured hair to this day. There used to be a lot of punks here back in the 80's/early 90's but I NEVER see any anymore. So sad. :(

All i need is my all stars and im one punky boi

Any Grunge fans here?

Now the old punks can be the ones to tell the youngsters that "That's not real music!" 😂😂

Punk never dies

Saw em all at the whiskey in the. 70S

"Shyness, the inexhaustible source of so much unhappiness in practical life, is the direct, even unique, cause of all interior wealth" - EMIL CIORAN This is PUNK

2:16 One of my favourite punk bands, 999! Good to hear the Damned, but there's not much footage from them here though, and they're the original UK punk rock band!

Would have to say The Exploited are my favorite punk group!!

UK Subs still tickles my FANCY (even though I was not born or lived during that time) Dove hard into it in my late tween years,2000,then took it even further the older I became. Wasn't a phase ma! ;)

5:00 the sudden lack of accent tripped me out.

damned were the best

PUNK IS LIFE🅰️🤘🏻💕

Very hard to explain to people who weren’t around then, how outraged society was. Me, I loved it.

I don't want to "move on". May we all be free

HAPPY 70TH BIRTHDAY ROCK N ROLL IT'S ALRIGHT MAMA ONLY MY EARS ARE BLEEDING

I think Joe Corre should set fire to himself

I m Metalhead & my wife is Punk. Now she love metal too

British AND American..... punk rock forever!!!!

''This is just a phase''... :D

2:30 when all your clothes is dirty

I love it I don't care what year it was or is I just love it. Philadelphia USA

I am fifty now but I went through my Punk phase and had a ball. The Clash is still a favourite and now Green Day is an absolute favourite...Long Live Punk Rock!!!!!!!

HELLO I FROM BRASIL OH I LOVE ENGLAND N_N

there is a Rat walking by in the upper left corner at 1:39 haha

Great to see some old 999 footage - didn't know that existed!

I went to see that British Library exhibition, it was pretty good :)

didn’t even mention discharge once..

El Punk no ha muerto en México tampoco! Punks not dead in México either!

i wish it was like back then today, nowadays people cannot argue about something without making wars or killing eachother, back then you would make music about arguments and stuff like should be instead of shooting eachother.

came here after Punk scene in Aceh Indonesia