Punk in the UK was about the political system in place in 76 combined with the old order no longer speaking to kids.
It was about stiffling kids and kids reactions to been stifled and playing a game that was in favour of the old order.
Therefore like a big explosion it only lasted breifly.
What came after was just people acting like punks or people who wanted it to be 76 again.
In the UK most magaines and art in Soho today reflects punk ethos.
It is like pick it up and do it not..go to music school, get a degree in music...play in other bands for years....search for a deal.
It was just set a movement and let your own people come to it and then the A&R men will have to broadcast it as they want profit.
But the politics of the music is what made british punk 76-79 what it was.
It was purely political whereas rock was sex and drugs.
Rap music in the early eighties was closest to punk for black Americans which is why the clash got slightly involved in it.
Rotten loved rap early on for it's attitude.
That is the difference between rock and punk.
Politics.
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