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Originally Posted by right-track
As far as I'm concerned punk started with the Pistols. All earlier claims were made retrospectively.
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My understanding is that the New York punk bands that came before the Sex Pistols
were called punk rock at the time, named after the local underground music magazine of the same name. When Malcolm McLaren was in NYC working with the New York Dolls he got hip to the whole punk scene going on in New York at the time and brought the idea and the name back to London with him and formed the Sex Pistols.