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Originally Posted by Janszoon
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.
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And only then did it enter the public consciousness.