'Nobody wanted to be called a punk band,' says the founder of Punk Magazine. But from the Ramones to the Sex Pistols, they got tagged with the 400-year-old insult anyway.
In the first episode of the four-part docuseries “Punk,” which started airing on the Epix cable channel this week, progenitors of the punk-rock movement of the 1970s make a peculiar revelation about the word “punk” itself.
“Bands hated that word. Nobody wanted to be called a punk band,” recalls John Holmstrom, the founding editor of Punk Magazine—which, from its first issue in January 1976, helped to link “punk” to the burgeoning music scene centered around the legendary New York club CBGB.
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