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Yes it sounds apocryphal to me. But, I am not sure it matters much. Both Hendrix and Gallagher's legacies have lived on with anyone who has listened to their music and then gone and picked up a guitar.

I'm voting for 1978

I did not want to suggest that the Damned made less interesting or good music. And I won't post a video of Captain Sensible doing Happy Talk in riposte. We have all suffered enough! I was perhaps clumsy with my words. What I meant was bands knew that had to move on musically or die (as it had...

I love Desire (Although Blood on the Tacks for me is No 1). The narrative structure of many of the songs are definitely based upon traditional Scottish and Irish folk balladry e.g Isis, Black Diamond Bay etc, and of course Hurricane was his first "protest song" in over 10 years (unless you count...

I remember it on Top of the Pops, almost being the punk music they were allowed to play on BBC TV as it's lyrics weren't threatening the social order like some other records. But yes it is terrible, but actually think it's meant to be.

I think the thing is, the discussion about what is punk and what isn't has led people off on the tangents. To my way of thinking, there are actually not that many "punk records" in reality, as even those "punk bands" that started out morphed into something else after an album or two (see...

I saw them on the Back in Black tour at Wembley. It was bombastic and brilliant, but I think as you say the (very successful) parody element set in soon after.

He started it, but was persuaded by Jimmy to go down the pub instead

I think AC|DCs first album in Australia (not officially released here I think) was punk(y), but by their second or third album had similarly morphed into heavy metal.

Yes, I wouldn't disagree with anything you said there. I seem to remember New Wave was quite an umbrella term for anything that wasn't prog rock or disco, but wasn't quite raw enough to be called punk. I don't actually recall post punk to be a term that was widely used at the time, but has since...

So, almost back to the start of the thread, my daughter who has now started to read up on these things, asked me what’s the difference between New Wave and punk or post punk? I said flippantly that punks wore ripped clothes or bondage trousers and new wave bands wore skinny ties. And Post punk...

On a slightly related note, just turned the TV to see that Blondie in Concert from 1979 is on BBC2. (Ducks for cover as people tell me that they are not punk)

Sorry, I wasn't drawing a direct link, just they were a starting point for the playlist I created for her. There actually wasn't too much punk, but a bit more new wave, but that is what she was drawn to.

That's where I am too, but, if you have to lose one forever, which would it be.

Recently my teenage daughter got interested in music that wasn't just Billy Eilish ( nothing wrong with her btw). She got really into Radiohead and Nirvana and then started to ask me their influences. So I created a very random playlist of various 60s/70s/ 80s and 90s bands A few weeks later...