Punk Britannia Part 2 Punk 1976-1978 Jam Sex Pistols Clash Buzzcocks Adam Ant Chelsea Billy Idol 

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65 here. Love that music, love the attitude. Still with me today

I feel privileged too have lived thru this era. I feel sorry for kids today. Corporate rap and pop music with no soul and everything autotuned too death! 70s ,,80s and early 90s were the best music ever . We were very lucky us oldies 😊

Nearly 60 and still listening to the pistols,clash,xray specs and all the rest.Greatest music ever.

I was a punk in 77. It was dangerous. Even later in Iron Cross, people would stop cars and want to fight just because we looked different. Old ladies screaming that we were horrible people. It was very satisfying. LOL

Best days of my life , I was 12 in 1976 , loved punk and new wave music 😢😢😢 I miss those days 😢

What I love most about Punk is how it lead to the DIY releases, the tiny labels, the freedom individuals suddenly had. Those sexy small-run 7" singles at the start of their careers. If they got massive after that, it was deserved. I just felt I was growing up in the best time, a bit too young for Punk but for the bands that came from it - XTC, Skids, PIL etc it was good times.

Having lived through this era as a teenage punk, I can say this film gets it pretty right. Seeing the Sex Pistols live really did change our lives, but they were only the catalyst. We were making it up as we went along. :o)

Back then, I lived in a town about 70 miles south of San Francisco. One day, I ran into a friend on the street who said he had an extra ticket, that night, for the Sex Pistols at Winterland (an iconic SF venue). I thought about it and said something like, no thanks, I'd catch 'em next time they were in the area . . . I had some other shit to do. That, of course, was the last gig for the Pistols. For some time, I thought I'd made a very good decision. When I saw my friend a few days later I asked him how the show was? He said it sucked, worst concert ever . . . he said they played one song and then walked off the stage. Everyone thought it was a prank and they'd be back to finish the show after a bit. Primed and ready to pogo, they hung out for over an hour but the band never returned to the stage. Little did anyone know that the Pistols would never perform again and that night would become one of rock's historic events . . . and I missed it. It was kind of like somebody asking you, in 1967, if you wanted to go to a pop festival at the Monterey Fairgrounds and saying, "No, it's always foggy there, too chilly to be sitting outside." There's always a lot context to our decisions. In those days, it was typically a hassle for us to get to San Francisco. Most of the people I knew didn't have a car . . . or didn't have a car you were sure could get to San Francisco and back. Transportation was always falling through, so I was happy about passing on the Pistols . . . not having to deal with the potential hassle and huge disappointment for one damn song. I thought I'd gotten lucky. Of course, when it became clear that the Pistols would never play again, I knew I'd made a very lazy and stupid decision and from THAT point on, I've always regretted it.

So happy this was music of my generation. Fabulous times, energy. Opened my eyes into all things in life then an still now. Punk the attitude for life.

The Punk Rock Explosion was the best thing to happen to the world music scene ever.

I was a wannabe MOD and not a PUNK ROCKER and had a vespa with Miirrors/Stickers virtually all over the scooter and my favourite band at the time was THE JAM.But Damn talking about it after so many years now is bringing all of the Good & Bad memories come flooding back.But please take me back to them good old days😎👍

In May 1977 I was a music journalist in London. The Clash had just signed to CBS - the first big punk band to sign to a major label. By coincidence I had been invited to have lunch with the head of the CBS press office. Sitting in CBS reception in Soho Square waiting to be called up, I saw the Clash come in carrying bags of clothing that perhaps they'd bought in Carnaby Street with their advance. The rather thick sounding girl on reception (in spite of the fact that they'd been on the front covers of several music papers that week) didn't recognise them. "Yes? Who is it?" she asked suspiciously. "Er, Joe Strummer", said the leader. "Oo?" "Joe Strummer". "Who do you want?" asked the receptionist. I think that at this point they might have asked for Anthea Joseph who was the label's really sweet artists' liaison girl who never lost her temper. She wasn't in. "Who else?" asked the receptionist. "Er, Ellie?" ventured Joe. "Ellie Oo?" came back the girl. Another pause. "Ellie Greenwich?" tried Joe. At this point I thought of intervening to tell this girl that this was CBS's new band and they probably didn't want Ellie Greenwich (who was a songwriter in New York's Brill Building, but Ellie Smith who was also a New Yorker but in CBS's press office}. She maybe had the same idea and tried the press office. She clearly got through to someone and had a conversation with them. Then put the phone down. "There's no-one there," she announced. The band looked dejected and filed out back into the Soho sunshine. After a while her phone rang again and she informed me that my lunch date would see me now. I went up to the press office to find the head guy alone and with his feet up on the desk. "Your new band were just in reception," I said, "Wasn't anyone going down to see them?" "Naa!" he replied. "Flaming acts, they're alway coming in here without appointments. I told her there was no-one here." Yes, that much was only too apparent, I thought.

14:13 Siouxsie is too cool for school in this interview. Love it.

I was aged 10 in 79. My life from my memory was great, everyone was having a good time (I lived in Blackpool) I loved the (so-called) punk music and it was nothing to do with my life. Pistols, Damned, Banshee, even Adam Ant.(shout out to the jam) I just and still do love the music. Nobody was depressed in my world at the time, it was fantastic

This was such a brilliant series with Peter Capaldi's narration as the icing on the cake.

The pistols had the songs to back up the attitude.

Johnny Rotten’s delivery was spot on for the times.

X ray Specs Poly Styrene lead singer Brilliant woman I was in love with her. Saw them at the Marque Warder Street Best gig ever for me.

Much love and thanks to Johnny Rotten! The King of revolution.

Thumbs up to Adam Ant and Siouxsie I was about 2 years too young for the start of punk but you made it my time! Such memorable concerts plus special thanks to "PIL" which showed us all Johny Rotton was not a making of McClaran but a true artist that changed popular music and the way you can sing forever! a truly historic artist in his own right! My TV went black at 16 years old lol

Siouxie looks amazing here, the best front person in rock

I just love Johnnie Rotten's brutal honesty. What a man.

Rock music needed punk rock as a anecdote to disc, etc.

letsnot forget johhny rotten knew about saville ,and tried to warn us

I still remember in those days as a young punkette, having the audacity to wear straight leg jeans and short hair meant taking your life in your hands walking along the street. I remember being shoulder barged by a 6ft teddy boy-big man!😂

It took a couple of years for Punk to really reach here on the west coast of Canada, but we had some fantastic bands that embraced the sound. D.O.A., Pointed Sticks, Subhumans, Young Canadians, Modernettes, and the the all-woman Dishrags, all promoted by a tiny local TV station and one show called Soundproof. Punk never caught on as hard as it had in London because we never had the feeling of no future. Damn, though, the music was good! D.O.A. leader, Joey Shithead, has been a local politician for many years and works tirelessly for the real people he represents.

nice to see hugh cornwell pop in for a min. the Stranglers were very underrated. They never pretended they couldnt play and were genuinely creepy, in a good way

As an American teen girl in the 80s, I learned about punk through the 80s British Invasion (mostly thru Duran Duran) who cited their influences as the Sex Pistols and The Clash (and Roxy and Bowie.) But it was the punk rock revolution that gave them the motivation to be who they were. To be individuals and different. They did end up going pop bc after all, that’s where the money was. Though they do have a dark side. But that punk rock spirit translated to the punk, goth, hardcore scene in the US. In the end the Sid and Nancy story became romanticized and bc the US is so much bigger punk got watered down and lost its edge - thank you yuppies 🤨 Thankfully it had sub genres. I went from Duranie to New Waver, Punk to goth. I loved being a weirdo and part of a subculture. Deep inside I’m still like this today. I’d still rather befriend someone into any piece of that music scene than a fan of Bonjovi or Bruce Springsteen 🤮. In any event, thank you British punk rockers for saving us from the mundane American mainstream!!

We need another music revolution like this when this pandemic is over.

Siouxsie Sioux is a Goddess!

Holy mexicans! I've seen the bill grundy clip a million times. But at 7.28, they showed the end! I didn't know Steve & the girls started dancing on camera. Awesome, cool doc overall, but seeing something for the first time was awesome.

Punk was usurped by the Yuppies. The clothes became Designer, the spiky hair an expensive treat. Killed it.

We are so lucky to witness this genius. This time.

Cutting the Stranglers out of this was inexcuseable

bestest time ever even if i was a little bit older fabulous music bands and just lovely

when the punk arriving into our life, I woke up immediately, and since then I see much more clearly

I'm enjoying this walk down Nostalgia Lane but am baffled by the lack of recognition punk started in 1974, in the US, with the Ramones!

I was a teem and loved punk music. Never could have been a punk but thought they were cool. I felt sad when they faded away in my midwestern city.

Generation X on totp's and the marc bolan show was my introduction to punk when i was 14

Thank you so much for making this video. I was around 7 when first wave punk started and when second wave punk was plateauing i was around 13. Annoyed to have missed it all. i didn't understand it. I admired the punks that still existed although found them a little frightening and controversial. I seem to have done it all backwards. I'm now in my mid 50s and going to punk gigs. living and breathing the music without the cause

I was 16-18 from 1976-1978 in the upper midwest, US. And I was DESPERATE for something other than the horrid standard "classic" rock being pumped out of the local radio stations at that time (to this day I despise classic rock). When I first heard U2, it was a breath of fresh air, but when I heard "Walking in LA" by Missing Persons I thought I'd died and gone to heaven! But when I heard PUNK...that was it for me. It set me on a different course. I had an outlet for my angst, hooray! And wow, didn't Siouxsie look amazing in this video!? All so great!

This ending up with Public Image is just perfekt

76 to 93 the big time in music 🔥

Cheers for the upload..

I was in the army overseas when we first heard about punk . We seen the first picture of a punk in a newspaper that got to us . Mohican hair style pins through the noses . We couldn’t believe that was the new style. And we thought us soldiers was the only mad ones at the time.

🇬🇧💪Thank you from 🇩🇪Punkrock never die 💥

Outstanding. Did not know 99% of this. Thank You! Best Regards and Best Wishes!

Its all rock n roll, Billy Idol's playing Montreux this summer!

Hard era but music was great❤

“I am an antichrist, i am an anarchist…destroooooy!!!” Followed by “how dare people protest and not understand me!” Classic.

I grew up in the sixties and seventies in England and I had a fucking ball.

My era and what a fab time it was!!

As a nation don't think we've changed much .... If a band rocked up today swearing on TV at 6pm it would probably shock all of us including old punks / So there you go young bands / Thats your way in to immortality .....

The one message that is NOT promoted enough in the recalling of events is that you could TRUST your fans or audience to walk in the rain with their pocket money wages to buy your independent records clothes etc etc....now no one bands together

Watching from Greece.hi everybody. PUNKS NOT DEAD!!!

Brilliant doco

Best documentary on punk.

Another confirmation with the Johnnie Rotten's biography Rage is my Ernergy, that McLaren never understood what punk movement was.

I was an Aussie teenager when I heard all that Punk rock, Aussie rock bands and Heavy Metal music too. I loved them all. I hated Disco music. Now I am into Symphonic Metal bands and songs

Arrived the in early 1980 as a 20 year old from NYC with my Rick Bass (see icon) Stayed until late summer...What a great scene!....Played with a band and did some recording. Stayed in Chalk Farm Station area....just revisited 43 years later for the first time. Camden is too 'over the top' compared to back then...

29:30 Had the Clash not signed with a major label like CBS it's unlikely their reach would ever have extended beyond England and the rest of the UK. But they did and as a result thousands - if not hundreds of thousands - of young people in the US and in other countries would never have heard them, and would never have taken up the questions they asked, or have looked skeptically at the world they would have otherwise been expected to buy into. The Clash were enormously influential in the shaping of how I saw the world then, and how I see it now. I don't doubt that many, many young people were similarly influenced.

For a moment, everything seemed possible. We could take on the muzak corporations and do it better; we could make out own music, produce our own records, studios and gigs. For me and my mates, the Clash signing to CBS was a hammer blow. Young as we were, we knew the truth of the saying that "the master's tools will never dismantle the master's house"

Punk blow everything away I loved it

I was 14 in 1977. So I remember this well. I’ll be honest I was not into the Punk thing but what it did was lay the way for the so called New Wave which I was involved with. So Punk was very important in that sense. I actually enjoy listening to it now aged 60. It still resonates today, that spirit that you don’t have to be a great technical musician to make good music.

when disco music arriving into my life, I woke up immediately

This was a great documentary as opposed to the hundreds of naff ones on RU-vid.

The most punk rock thing now would be to wear a t-shirt that says, 'I Hate The Sex Pistols'. Offend the offenders, and then maybe something big like this can get started again.

punk sums up england perfectly GRIM😵‍💫

We will never see a music age like this again kids now days are stuck on EDM sound and garage punk is fading out its sad

The great days carefree giving it some , great words being said The Roxy changed a generation🎵🎶 middle 80s late 80s

It was great, Punk, and then Thatcher, and money, and jobs, and we were all doing well, having fun, in a new world where you did what you want and nothing mattered. There was no racism, homophobia, there was sexual equality. It was fucking great!

This was great to watch

Love this documentary! ❤️

Our family left England in '72 for Canada. Last few memories were of the coal miners strike with power outages between 5:00pm and 11:00pm. Few tv channels BBC1, BBC2 and ITV.

" Punk wasn't a unified movement, it was a bunch of really jealous people trying to outdo each other." My experience exactly. I wonder if that is why the Stranglers never received their dues as one of the best bands of that epoch.

Cool documentary. I'm gonna RU-vid some Siouxies!

What times we had. Lucky to live through an era when music meant something. Now we have x factor crap and no real talent.

they can't help it, they can't help. the British properness is still there no matter how hard they try to keep it out.

Ever get the feeling you've been repeating yourself? Ah-ha ha!

Great series, great music

Pandemic is over...still no music revolution.

Look where we are now, I’d take the 70’s any day

My girlfriend Tina and I broke up in a restaurant over The Clash. I said they sold out and I pissed her off so much she walked out! Good times!

Such a great set of videos! Thanks! How about a US version on how it started and connected to the UK crowd?

Weird that Billy Bragg felt the Jam represented the working class more than the pistols /clash. Considering where Mick Jones and John Lydon grew up. People give Joe a lot of shit for not being poor as a kid. The way I see it as soon as his parents weren’t in control of his life any more he took it back and did what he wanted. More honest than being a slave to your roots.

McLaren "you just destroyed everything..." Which shows you EXACTLY why he wasn't the F savvy genius he tried to sell himself as.

Gobbing a leveller? Siouxsie Sioux walked off stage during the first song at the gig we were at in 1980. First time it happened she shouted "Any more gobbing and walking off this f*** stage!" It happened again almost immediately, she walked off and that was the end of the gig.

Bloody great. I remember.

I love UK so much ❤️

You have to give a shout-out to punk for not being racist, homophobic, or sexiest. It wasn't. Unlike today sadly

Punk had to happen like all music revolutions , The Clash transcended the genre and carved their own musical nitche influencing a lot of important bands that followed. The Clash were capable of so many styles and were not defined or restricted by the narrow parameters that kept other bands from expanding there listenership. I adored the Clash and never really regarded them as a “ Punk” band just as a group who made important and memorable music.

Same in the USA in the 70’s. But we opened up too!!!

Charlie nailed it... Respect Bro...

I often wonder what the Pistols would have become if they hadn't binned off Matlock. So much potential lost.

22:01. "Banned from the Roxy? Okay. I never much liked playing there anyway."

There was a freight train rolling through the whole time, a train that wouldn't stop and was oblivious. That train was called Motorhead.

I just like 20th century pop culture now...I don't even bother picking nits. Punks...hippies...metalheads...greasers...beatniks...progsters...valley girls, all equal in the great cyberspace graveyard.

Another brilliant episode! I think to truly appreciate it you had to experience Britain just before this as a teenager. It was truly awful. Contrary to what Mick Jones says in this film…..I actually took the lyrics of The Clash’s song ‘1977’ literally! 🤣 It’s also true about Britain and the gigs…and I used to go to a lot then as a 15 year old ….that it had a constant undercurrent of violence. I used to shit myself going to every gig.

Just realized John Cooper Clarke is the narrator, so great.