Punk: The Early Years

Late 70's punk documentary including tracks by the Sex Pistols, Generation X and Billy Idol.
This fascinating film, shot in 1977-78, documents the early days of the Punk Rock phenomenon. From its beginnings on London's pub rock circuit to UK chart domination, Punk The Early Years has it all! Includes performances from Sex Pistols, X Ray Spex, Generation X, The Slits, Siouxsie Sioux, Marc Bolan,The Adverts, Eddie and the Hot Rods, Billy Idol, Poly Styrene and many more! Also includes extensive interviews, including the last-ever with Marc Bolan.

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[jamessalter1]

Is it me or are the Slits very poor

[jamessalter1]

Jordens a posh bird!

[MsIthinkthereforeIam]

Thanks for the uploading...it brings back memories of me living in London in the 80s!

[alphazZz18]

THE SLITS!! 

[Nordfelt]

RIP Poly Styrene

[pafawag01]

Great documentary, very rare and good quality performances, especially The Slits are powerul. Thanks!

[CarellaRoss]

crossing the red sea with the adverts is actually a really good (& strong) album. i think it stands with the pistols and the clash with ease.....it's just not name-dropped the same.

[cpunctn]

I was waiting for this to show up for ages... Thanks a lot for the upload! :)

Cheers

[yallop9]

John Lydon always used Polystyrene and Kate Bush as artists he admired who espoused the individual creative philosophy he felt 'punk' should have been about rather than those who merely copied him and brought nothing to the party except more uniformity and unoriginality.

[flaxonx3]

Spittin' On Grannies would have been a great name for a punk band. Marc Bolan was right about the punk bands adding strings in five years as the the early eighties with the new romantics, futurists and all those who came out of punk were using more sophisticated musical sounds and instruments.