Unknown Soldier

Agreed, like most of these types of threads we end up getting a whole host of people that get linked in with inventing the genre, I've seen people such as Link Wray and Woodie Guthrie getting mentioned on here, if we're mentioning artists like this, we might as well be mentioning artists like Elvis Presley, Rolling Stones, David Bowie, Doors, Alice Cooper and Roxy Music etc in fact the list is endless and gets to the stage of where does it end, as all of the above have influenced so many different genres. Punk was only partly music, it was also about image and I don't think enough people on here have taken this into consideration, I'm old enough to just remember the punk explosion in London in 1977 and the posturing and style of some of the above artists was essential to the movement and image was everything! As far as I'm concerned, a movement is only REALLY invented when all the key components come together and that was in 1976/1977 with bands like the Ramones, Sex Pistols, the Damned, the Saints, Dead Boys, Blondie, Stranglers and the Clash to name some. The only band before any of these, that I'd consider to have all the ingedients of being punk were Iggy and the Stooges and for that reason they're proto-punk.

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