Casting his mind back to the artists of his youth, Joey Ramone reeled off some surprising artists that he credited with defining punk's enduring attitude.

Pete Townshend and The Who have a lot to answer for within the history of punk rock, but the songwriter also cited his ...

These images from our archives reveal it was going strong in Colchester in the late 1970s into the mid 1980s. Punk began to arrive in the town from larger cities in the late 1970s when teens started ...

From glam to punk, prog to soul, the 1970s defined the album era – here are the decade’s standout releases, year by year.

Nothing will ever touch the unique energy of 1970s punk rock music. Bands like Sex Pistols, The Ramones, and New York Dolls dominated the genre and delivered some pretty memorable hits. But even those ...

Brian Clarke in 1985: ‘I’m interested in rendering the commonplace sublime’ - Len Trievnor ​Sir Brian Clarke, who has died the day before his 72nd birthday, was once described in The ...

Steve Norman is a multi-instrumentalist and songwriter best known as the gifted saxophonist of Spandau Ballet, the legendary new wave group ...

Rock ‘n’ roll had, for the most part, lost its “roll” by 1970. It became rock music—self-serious, dour, pompous, filled with pretensions to being “art.” It ceased being fabulous teenage noise, filled ...

Kev F Sutherland is a renaissance man of comic books, He has written comics, he has drawn comics, from Marvel's Doctor Strange to Viz Comic to The Beano's Bash Street Kids. He launched the big annual ...

“You’re only as good as your drummer,” Clash singer/rhythm guitarist Joe Strummer lamented in their documentary Westway To The World, as he recounted Nicky “Topper” Headon’s firing ahead of 1982 ...