With its own fashion, culture and chaotic energy, punk rock boasted a do-it-yourself ethos that allowed anyone and everyone to take part. Vibrant and volatile, the punk scene left an extraordinary legacy of music and cultural change. In Punk Rock: An Oral History, John Robb talks to many of those who cultivated the movement, such as John Lydon, Lemmy, Siouxsie Sioux, Mick Jones, Chrissie Hynde, Malcolm McLaren, Henry Rollins and Glen Matlock, weaving together their accounts to create a raw and unprecedented oral history of UK punk.
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With its own fashion, culture and chaotic energy, punk rock boasted a do-it-yourself ethos that allowed anyone and everyone to take part. Vibrant and volatile, the punk scene left an extraordinary legacy of music and cultural change. In Punk Rock: An Oral History, John Robb talks to many of those who cultivated the movement, such as John Lydon, Lemmy, Siouxsie Sioux, Mick Jones, Chrissie Hynde, Malcolm McLaren, Henry Rollins and Glen Matlock, weaving together their accounts to create a raw and unprecedented oral history of UK punk.
