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Originally Posted by jackhammer
But in the words of Ian Dury: 'There ain't half been some clever bastards' and he recognised the potential of the scene , for good or bad.
Fans in the know do acknowledge the origins of Punk and attribute it to many American bands. Mc Claren bottled it, gave it a name and spawned a sub genre.
We could be pedantic and say that the British invasion in the 60's was a catalyst for the forerunners of Punk but then we would be going around in circles I guess.
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Yes that is spot on. My favorite band is the New York Dolls so I despise Malcom with a passion but still Malcom is to punk rock what Alan Freed was to rock n roll. Rock-n-roll music existed before Freed and punk existed before McLaren (heck really before Freed!) but it was those men who really launched both revolutions (as much as I hate to say that about McLaren who made a bad situation for the Dolls much much worse)
Rock-n-roll wasn't rock-n-roll until Freed called it such over and over again and punk rock was just people who rejected boring hippy rock and preferred the old rock-n-roll until Malcom 'bottled it and gave it a name' as you said.