Punk subculture
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The punk subculture includes a diverse and widely known array of music, ideologies, fashion, and other forms of expression, visual art, dance, literature, and film. Largely characterised by anti-estab
Punk with a red mohawk at Holidays In The Sun Festival in Morecambe, England, in 2003
Punks in 1984
Thomas Dellert aka "Tommy Dollar", one of the early London punk rockers, standing with the Sex Pistols in 1975.
Buzzcocks at the Cropredy Festival in 2009
Punk rock
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Punk rock is a genre of rock music that emerged in the mid-1970s. Rooted in 1950s rock and roll and 1960s garage rock, punk bands rejected the overproduction and corporate nature of mainstream arena r
Punk subculture
…literature, and film. Largely characterised by anti-establishment views, the promotion of individual freedom, and DIY ethics, the culture originated from punk rock. The punk ethos is primarily made up of beliefs such as non-conformity, anti-authoritarianism, anti-corporatocracy, a do-it-yourself ethic, anti-consumerist…
1980s punks with leather jackets and dyed mohawk hairstyles
Iggy Pop, sometimes referred to as the "godfather of punk."
The Kingsmen in 1966. Their cover of "Louie, Louie" was later referred to as punk rock's "ur-text".
The Kinks' "You Really Got Me" was later cited as an early progenitor of punk rock.