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1977: The Year Decency Died - Part II

[10 April 2008]

by Raphaël Costambeys-Kempczynski

If punk’s message was ‘destroy’, then inevitably wrapped up in its own scream of existence was its dying breath. No sooner was 1977 declared the year of punk than the death of punk was in the cards.
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