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50 years ago today
Inspired by the Notting Hill Riots of August 30, 1976

The Clash with Jimmy Pursey - White Riot (Live 1978 Victoria Park London)

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52 years ago
Patti Smith/Television - early punk poster advertising a series of shows at Max’s Kansas City, August / September 1974

Patti Smith performed as a skeletal trio with Lenny Kaye on guitar and Richard Sohl on piano, while Television featured its earliest configuration with Tom Verlaine, Richard Hell, Richard Lloyd, and Billy Ficca.

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47 years ago today

Exene Cervenka and John Doe of X at Stardust Ballroom, August 30, 1979. Photo by Jenny Lens

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50 years ago today
The iconic shot (along with an alternative view) of Don Letts on Portobello Road in London during the Notting Hill Carnival riots on August 30, 1976.

The image appeared on the cover of The Clash album Blackmarket Clash and inspired the band to write the song "White Riot."

📸 Rocco Macally

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Released 49 years ago today

Lust for Life, the second studio album by Iggy Pop, with the eponymous titel track

Iggy Pop - Lust for Life

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In memory of the controversial, hated, loved Kevin Michael "GG" Allin, American singer, punk rocker, songwriter and record producer, born on this day in 1956, Lancaster, New Hampshire, U.S.

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49 years ago today

Released on this day in 1977, Lust for Life, the second studio album by Iggy Pop, his second solo release and his second collaboration with David Bowie, following The Idiot earlier in the year.

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50 years ago today

An original little poster of the famous Screen on the Green punk concert, August 29, 1976, featuring the Sex Pistols, TheClash (performing in London for the first time) and the Buzzcocks, all for £1.

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Released48 years ago today

Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo! is the debut studio album by the American band Devo, featuring the track Uncontrollable Urge

Devo - Urgh! A Music War“ (1981) - Uncontrollable Urge

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Happy Birthday to Hugh Alan Cornwell, vocalist and guitarist for the punk rock/new wave band the Stranglers, born on this day in 1949, Tufnell Park, North London

Photo by Kevin Cummins

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In memory of Hilly Kristal, who died of lung cancer on August 28, 2007, at the age of 75.

The photograph was taken in May 1987 by photographer Bob Gruen in front of the club on the Bowery in Manhattan.

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48 years ago today

Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo! is the debut studio album by the American new wave /postpunk band Devo, produced by Brian Eno and released on this day in 1978

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45 years ago today
Wasted Youth Performing at the Cuckoo's Nest, August 27, 1981

Photo by Alison Braun

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Happy Birthday to Glen Matlock, English musician, bass guitarist in the original line-up of the Sex Pistols, member of the Rich Kids, Vicious White Kids and many other bands, born on this day in 1956, London

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49 years ago

Siouxsie and the Banshees, Siouxsie and Steve Severin, Tiverton, Devon, Britain - 25 August, 1977

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Happy 70th birthday to the wonderful Gaye Advert 😍

The Adverts - Great british mistake live 1977

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"There's always room for Jello"

Jello Biafra ran a satirical campaign for Mayor of San Francisco in 1979 at just 21 years old.

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Happy 70th Birthday Gaye Black aka Gaye Advert ❤️, bassist with The Adverts in the late 1970s and one of the first female rock stars of the punk rock movement, born August 25, 1956.

📸 by Dick Polak

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47 years ago today

The Ramones' movie Rock & Roll High School opens in theaters

Ramones - Rock N' Roll High School - HD Remastered

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44 years ago
Peter Murphy from Bauhaus posed at the Roundhouse in Camden, London, during the filming of the Ziggy Stardust video in August 1982

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