1968
21 May: San Francisco: indie FM station KSAN (the Jive 95) pioneers freeform rock radio. Changes to C/W Nov. 1981

1971
San Francisco: Bill Graham closes the Fillmore West auditorium; permanently converts Winterland skate rink into Winterland Ballroom, 5,000-seat music venue

Patti Smith recites poetry including “Oath” which begins with “Christ died for somebody’s sins but not mine,” sings and reads by Lenny Kaye’s guitar accompaniment at the St Mark’s Poetry Project, Bowery, New York

1972
January: Stanley Kubrick film A Clockwork Orange released

February: Film The Harder They Come introduces Reggae and Jamaican musicians to the world including Jimmy Cliff and The Maytals

February: Bob Fosse film Cabaret released; "divine decadence"

Malcolm McLaren and Vivienne Westwood rework Let It Rock, their Teddy-Boy boutique at 430 King's Road, to a leather/biker concept: Too Fast to Live, Too Young to Die, London

The Jam forms, Woking, Surrey

November: Lou Reed releases his second solo album Transformer including the single “Walk on the Wild Side”

Winter: Singer and bassist Steve Jones, drummer Paul Cook start band The Strand with Warwick "Wally" Nightingale on guitar, London

Steve Jones hangs out at Too Fast to Live, Too Young to Die boutique

1973  

May: Chrissie Hynde moves from Ohio to London

She writes for NME and moves in with critic Nick Kent

John Lydon attends Hackney Technical College, meets John Ritchie, whom he names "Sid," London

27 July: The New York Dolls release their first album, New York Dolls, produced by Todd Rundgren

August: Malcolm McLaren, Vivienne Westwood exhibit Too Fast to Live, Too Young to Die clothes at the National Boutique Show, New York. 

They meet New York Doll Sylvain Sylvain, also a boutique fashion designer

November: Malcolm McLaren tours Europe with the New York Dolls

1974

John Lydon attends Kingsway College, where he meets John Wardle (Jah Wobble), London

Mick Jones attends Hammersmith College, London. He organizes band London SS

Viv Albertine meets Mick Jones at Hammersmith  College. She also meets Chrissie Hynde there

March: Television, founded by Tom Verlaine and Richard Hell, starts playing live at CBGB and Max's Kansas City, New York

The Ramones form, Forest Hills, Queens, New York

April: interview with Malcolm McLaren about Too Fast to Live, Too Young to Die appears in NME, by Nick Kent, who later tries out on vocals for the Sex Pistols

Spring: Glen Matlock works part time at Too Fast to Live, Too Young to Die. He joins Steve Jones, Paul Cook and Wally Nightingale in The Strand at bass; Malcolm McLaren rents rehearsal space for the band.

The Strand change their name to The Swankers

June: Patti Smith releases her first single, gigs regularly at CBGB backed by Television

Jordan starts working at Too Fast to Live, Too Young to Die as hostess and model, pioneers London Punk look

Summer: Pub Rock hits peak of popularity in London

16 August: The Ramones play their first public gig, at CBGB

Fall: Malcolm McLaren moves to New York for 6 months, joins New York Dolls as de-facto manager, a prototype for promoting the Sex Pistols.

McLaren and Vivienne Westwood create "Communism" look for the New York Dolls

11 September: Pub Rock band The Guildford Stranglers form, later the Stranglers, Guildford, Surrey

October: Vivienne Westwood and Malcolm McLaren rework Too Fast to Live, Too Young to Die concept at 430 King's Road as SEX

Chrissie Hynde works at SEX

October: Vivienne Westwood and Malcolm McLaren design costumes for the dream sequence in the Ken Russell film Mahler

Blondie founded, New York

October 25: Bob Marley and the Wailers release album Natty Dread, international pop crossover hit, produced by Chris Blackwell and the Wailers for Island Records

Winter: Friends John Lydon (Johnny Rotten), John Simon Ritchie (Sid Vicious), John Wardle (Jah Wobble) begin to hang out at SEX

1975  

March: Pub Rock band Brinsley Schwarz breaks up, former members including bassist/ singer/ songwriter/ producer Nick Lowe subsequently work with Punk and New Wave bands

San Francisco: The Nuns form, Marin County

May: ex-New York Dolls Johnny Thunders and Jerry Nolan form The Heartbreakers with ex-Television member Richard Hell, New York

May: Malcolm McLaren returns to London with Sylvain Sylvain's white Gibson Les Paul guitar; he gives it to Steve Jones to play

5 June: The Talking Heads perform live for the first time, backing The Ramones at CBGB

Summer: Steve Jones asks Malcolm McLaren to manage The Swankers. McLaren agrees only if they fire Wally Nightingale. With Nightingale gone they change the name to QT Jones & his Sex Pistols

August: The Rocky Horror Picture Show film released

August: Malcolm McLaren auditions John Lydon for singer, Roebuck, London

The group settles on The Sex Pistols, with Steve Jones on guitar, Paul Cook on drums and Glen Matlock on bass, vocals by Lydon (Johnny Rotten)

6 November: The Sex Pistols perform for the first time, St. Martin’s College. They’re thrown off stage after one song

10 November: Patti Smith releases first album Horses with the Patti Smith Band, produced by John Cale, cover photo by Robert Mapplethorpe

Friends Viv Albertine and Mick Jones arrive separately at a record shop to buy Horses as soon as it arrives, London

5 December: Sex Pistols play the Chelsea School of Art & Design, London. Viv Albertine attends, sees the Pistols for the first time and decides to become a musician

1976

January: Punk fanzine first issue, published by Legs McNeil and others; christens the music and movement with the name that sticks, New York

23 January: David Bowie releases album Station to Station. Cover photo from unreleased film The Man Who Fell to Earth sets standard for the "Wedge" haircut for New Wavers; crisp European-style graphics for record cover art

Viv Albertine buys her first guitar with help from Mick Jones, a Gibson Les Paul Junior

February: The Ramones release first single “Blitzkrieg Bop” b/w “Havana Affair”

San Francisco indie radio station KSAN plays Ramones singles including “Blitzkrieg Bop”

February: the Buzzcocks form, Manchester, UK

6 February: David Bowie plays the Cow Palace, San Francisco, on his "Thin White Duke Tour" supporting Station to Station

February: Pete Shelley and Howard Devoto of the Buzzcocks travel to London to see the Sex Pistols

18 February: Boz Scaggs releases hit Pop/Rock/Jazz album Silk Degrees, San Francisco

18 March: Nicholas Roeg’s film The Man Who Fell to Earth starring David Bowie released in UK; limited release in US

1 April: Buzzcocks play live for the first time

23 April: The Ramones release The Ramones album

23 April: The Sex Pistols play The Nashville, London. Fights break out with audience, noted in the music media

30 April: Bob Marley and the Wailers release album Rastaman Vibration, produced by Bob Marley and the Wailers

20 May: David Bowie releases compilation album Changesonebowie

30 May: The Clash form when Mick Jones, Keith Levene and Paul Simonon persuade Joe Strummer to join, London

Spring: Richard Hell leaves the Heartbreakers, forms Richard Hell and the Voidoids, New York

4 June: The Sex Pistols play the Lesser Free Trade Hall, Manchester for the first time, in a show organized by the Buzzcocks, who aren’t yet ready to play. Audience of 40 includes Bernard Sumner and Peter Hook, who soon form Warsaw, later Joy Division, later New Order; Steven Morrissey, Mark E. Smith, Mick Hucknall, producer Martin Hannett and Factory Records/Haçienda impresario Tony Wilson, Steve Diggle, Paul Morley, Kevin Cummins

Summer: Sid Vicious, Keith Levene, Viv Albertine, Jo Faull, Sarah Hall and Palmolive form the Flowers of Romance, named by John Lydon

Sid Vicious soon kicks Palmolive out of the band

June: Bernard Sumner and Peter Hook found Warsaw, later Joy Division, later New Order, Manchester

17 June: Blondie releases first single, “X Offender" b/w “In the Sun”

4 July: Sheffield: The Sex Pistols play at the Black Swan, backed by The Clash in their first public performance, with Mick Jones, Joe Strummer, Keith Levene and Paul Simonon. 

Keith Levene leaves the Clash after a few more dates

4 July: London: The Ramones and the Stranglers play the Roundhouse, backing the Flamin’ Groovies from San Francisco. 

Afterward UK punk bands speed up their songs to match Dede Ramones' machine-gun tempos

5 July: London: The Ramones and the Stranglers play Dingwall’s, with members of the Sex Pistols and the Clash in the audience plus Viv Albertine and Chrissie Hynde

After the show Johnny Rotten and Paul Simonon of the Pistols and Clash square up in an alley against Stranglers bassist JJ Burnel, a martial arts enthusiast, and keyboardist Dave Greenfield. After the incident the Stranglers are no longer included in punk’s “inner circle” 

6 July: The Sex Pistols play the 100 Club, backed by The Damned in their first public performance, London

20 July: The Sex Pistols play for the second time at the Lesser Free Trade Hall, Manchester, backed by the Buzzcocks

August: Notting Hill Carnival Riots, London. Inspiration for the Clash song “White Riot”

19-22 August: The Ramones play San Francisco for the first time, at the Savoy Tivoli in North Beach

29 August: Sex Pistols and The Clash play at Screen on the Green, appearing to form a cohesive new movement, London

September: The Ramones release second single "I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend" b/w "California Sun/I Don't Wanna Walk Around With You"

September: Sid Vicious kicks Sarah Hall out of the Flowers of Romance

20 September: Siouxsie and the Banshees form, ask Sid Vicious to join

21-22 September: Punk Festival, 100 Club: Sex Pistols, Clash, the Buzzcocks, the Damned, Subway Sect, the Vibrators, Siouxsie and the Banshees and Stinky Toys play. Sid Vicious joins the Banshees on drums, with Steve Severin on bass, Marco Pirroni on guitar.

On the second night Sid Vicious throws a glass at the Damned on stage, but it shatters on a pillar and injures a girl in the audience. Sid is arrested and jailed

October: Patti Smith Group releases second album Radio Ethiopia

October: Palmolive on drums and Ari Up on vocals form the Slits with Kate Korus on guitar and Suzy Gutsy on bass

22 October: The Damned release single “New Rose,” first UK Punk single, b/w Beatles song “Help!,” produced by Nick Lowe, Stiff Records in-house producer

San Francisco: November: City and County election sets up district supervisor elections, paving the way for Harvey Milk and other liberals to be elected to the Board of Supervisors in 1977

November: Richard Hell and the Voidoids release underground 7-inch EP “Blank Generation” b/w "Another World" and "You Gotta Lose”

26 November: The Sex Pistols release first single, “Anarchy in the UK” b/w “I Wanna be Me”

26 November: San Francisco: Thanksgiving: The Band play for the last time, at Winterland Ballroom, memorialized as The Last Waltz

1 December: The Sex Pistols and friends appear on Thames TV Today show, London; host Bill Grundy flirts with Siouxsie Sioux and Steve Jones calls him bad names on air. Media outcry leads to EMI breaking their contract

6 December: The Sex Pistols launch their “Anarchy in the UK Tour,” backed by The Damned, Johnny Thunder’s Heartbreakers and The Clash. The Tour kicks off at Leeds Polytechnic after numerous earlier venues cancel

8 December: The Eagles release hit album Hotel California

December: Blondie releases first album, Blondie, produced by Richard Gottehrer; re-release it September 1977

December: The Buzzcocks self-release their first EP, Spiral Scratch, produced by Martin Hannett, Manchester

December: San Francisco: Mabuhay Gardens supper club on Broadway showcases New Wave bands one night a week with emcee Dirk Dirksen

SF bands the Nuns, the Contractions and Crime play at the Fab Mab

December: Christmas at journalist / artist Caroline Coon’s house. Guests include Viv Albertine, Sid Vicious, Johnny Rotten, Soo Catwoman, Steve Jones, and Johnny Thunders

1977

San Francisco Art Institute students Danny Furious and Greg Ingraham form The Avengers after seeing the Ramones at the Savoy Tivoli in the fall, recruit fellow art student Penelope Houston as lead singer. They release a 3-song EP, We Are the One

January: Vivienne Westwood and Malcolm McLaren rework SEX boutique concept at 430 King's Road as Seditionaries

14 January: David Bowie releases album Low

28 January: The Stranglers release first single “(Get A) Grip (On Yourself)” b/w “London Lady”

Sid Vicious kicks guitarist Viv Albertine out of Flowers of Romance 

February: Bassist Glen Matlock leaves the Sex Pistols; Sid Vicious replaces him

4 February: Fleetwood Mac releases hit album Rumours

8 February: Television releases their self-produced album Marquee Moon, New York

18 February: The Damned release their first album, Damned Damned Damned, produced by Nick Lowe, first full album by a London Punk band

22-23 February: San Francisco: The Ramones play the Mabuhay Gardens

1 March: The Police play live for the first time, Newport, Wales

3 March: San Francisco: Blondie plays the Mabuhay Gardens

11 March: The Slits play their first gig, with Tessa Pollitt replacing Suzy Gutsy on bass, Harlesden Coliseum, London, backing the Buzzcocks, Subway Sect and the Clash

Viv Albertine attends the show. The Slits had asked her to play bass before Tessa joined

18 March: The Clash release their first single “White Riot” b/w “1977”

Spring: Viv Albertine joins the Slits on guitar, replacing Kate Korus

3 April: Sid Vicious on bass plays live with the Sex Pistols for the first time, London 

8 April: The Clash release their first album, The Clash, produced by Mickey Foote, their road sound manager

15 April: The Stranglers release their first album Rattus Norvegicus, produced by Martin Rushent

29 April: The Jam release their first single "In the City"

1 May: The Clash kick off their "White Riot Tour" of the UK with the Buzzcocks, the Jam, Subway Sect, the Prefects and the Slits

7 May: The "White Riot Tour" plays Edinburgh, kickstarts Scotland’s Punk and Post-Punk scene

20 May: The Jam release their first album In the City, produced by Vic Coppersmith-Heaven and Chris Parry

21 May: Elvis Costello releases single “Alison”

27 May: The Sex Pistols release second single “God Save the Queen” b/w "No Feelings" (A&M release) or "Did You No Wrong" (Virgin release)

29 May: Warsaw, later Joy Division, play their first gig, backing the Buzzcocks at the Electric Circus, Manchester

3 June: Bob Marley and the Wailers release Exodus album

7 June: The Sex Pistols play "God Save the Queen" on a boat on the Thames during preparations for Queen Elizabeth's Silver Jubilee

11 June: San Francisco: The Avengers play the Mabuhay Gardens for the first time, backing the Nuns

July: San Francisco: The Avengers add bassist Jimmy Wilsey

2 July: The Sex Pistols release third single, “Pretty Vacant” b/w “No Fun”

22 July: Elvis Costello releases his first album My Aim Is True, backed by members of country-rock band Clover from Marin County, Calif., produced by Nick Lowe

30 July: San Francisco: The Ramones play Winterland Ballroom backed by the Dictators and the Nuns. At the last minute Bill Graham adds leftover UK glam band Widowmaker as the headliner

4 August: San Francisco: International Hotel, Manilatown/ Chinatown (from 1950-1970 the home of the hungry i nightclub): City police and firefighters and County sheriff and deputies forcibly evict elderly Filipino and Chinese pensioners from residential hotel. The hotel is eventually replaced with an office building

September: Richard Hell and the Voidoids release first album Blank Generation, produced by Richard Gottehrer

4 September: Blondie releases second album, Plastic Letters, produced by Richard Gottehrer

16 September: The Talking Heads release first album, Talking Heads: 77, produced by Tony Bongiovi, cousin of Jon Bon Jovi

23 September: The Stranglers release second album, No More Heroes, produced by Martin Rushent

23 September: Steely Dan releases sixth album, Aja, one of the first to reach platinum sales status. It kicks off the “Yacht Rock” genre

October: San Francisco: Mutant CyBorg and his Death Army form at San Francisco State University, rehearse in basement of Verducci Hall dorms

October: Blondie re-releases first album Blondie

14 October: David Bowie releases album “Heroes”

14 October: The Sex Pistols release fourth single, “Holidays in the Sun” b/w “Satellite”

28 October: Sex Pistols release album Never Mind the Bollocks Here's the Sex Pistols, produced by Chris Thomas and/or Bill Price

8 November: San Francisco: Harvey Milk is elected to the Board of Supervisors in the City and County’s first district supervisorial elections

November: Blondie releases second single, “Rip Her to Shreds" b/w "In the Flesh" and "X Offender"

November: San Francisco: Mutant Cyborg and His Death Army writing session in SFSU dorms, compose most of the repertory

Thanksgiving: Mutant Cyborg and His Death Army living room performance at Pacific Grove, California

December: The Talking Heads release hit single “Psycho Killer”

15 December: San Francisco State University film student produces Super-8 film Punk Lives, shot at the Mabuhay Gardens 

December: Mutant Cyborg and His Death Army: GJW drops out, GB cuts his hair punk, KS joins on lead guitar, CH drops out, MM joins on bass

December: San Francisco: Negative Trend play the Mabuhay Gardens for the first time, with lead singer Roz

San Francisco indie radio station KSAN plays Patti Smith, The Ramones, Blondie, Sex Pistols

25 December: Sex Pistols perform for the last time in UK, Huddersfield

1978

13 January: San Francisco: Sex Pistols perform for the last time with Johnny Rotten (John Lydon), Winterland Ballroom, backed by the Avengers and the Nuns

After the show the band, roadies, management and the money leave for LA without Lydon, who flies back to London

17 February: Nick Lowe releases single “I Love the Sound of Breaking Glass”

PIL forms in May with John Lydon on vocals, Keith Levene on guitar and Ja Wobble on bass

Chrissie Hynde forms The Pretenders, London

The Buzzcocks release hit single "Ever Fallen in Love (With Someone You Shouldn't've)"

March: Nick Lowe releases album Jesus of Cool, in the US Pure Pop for Now People

3 March: Patti Smith Group releases third album Easter, produced by Jimmy Iovine

10 March: Buzzcocks release their first studio album, Another Music in a Different Kitchen, produced by Martin Rushent

17 March: Elvis Costello releases second album This Year’s Model, backed by The Attractions, produced by Nick Lowe

March: San Francisco: lead singer Roz leaves Negative Trend

7 April: The Police release their first single, “Roxanne”

Spring: Richard Branson flies John Lydon to Jamaica

May: PIL forms with John Lydon on vocals, Keith Levene on guitar and Ja Wobble on bass

May: Tony Wilson and Alan Erasmus open The Factory club, Manchester

12 May: The Stranglers release third album, Black and White, produced by Martin Rushent

June: The B-52’s play for the first time at CBGB, New York

Summer: San Francisco: GJW rejoins the band, now The Death Army

1 August: San Francisco: Home for Wayward Boys (aka Tortilla Flats) opens, 1116 Valencia St.

Fall: San Francisco: The Death Army releases single “Tourist Attraction” b/w “Storm Troop”

23 September: Blondie releases third album, Parallel Lines, produced by Mike Chapman

12 October: Nancy Spungen found dead of a stab wound at the Hotel Chelsea, New York. Sid Vicious is arrested for her murder

13 October: Public Image releases single Public Image

31 October: San Francisco: Halloween at Polk St. apartment

2 November: The Police release their first album, Outlandos d'Amour

10 November: The Clash release their second album, Give ‘Em Enough Rope

18 November: Jonestown Massacre: Guyana: Peoples Temple cultists led by San Francisco preacher Jim Jones shoot and kill US Representative Leo Ryan, 3 journalists and a Jonestown defector at Port Kaituma airstrip, wound 5 others including future Congress-member Jackie Speier. Jones and 913 of 1100 at Jonestown die of poisoned grape drink or are shot

27 November: San Francisco: Ex-Supervisor Dan White assassinates Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk in chambers at City Hall

Winter: Drummer Palmolive leaves the Slits, replaced by Budgie

December: The Clash launch the "Sort It Out Tour," backed by the Slits and the Innocents, Budgie playing drums for the Slits

12 December: San Francisco: The Death Army performs at SFSU Barbary Coast with Novak

15 December: Bruce Springsteen plays Winterland Ballroom

31 December-1 January: San Francisco: Winterland Ballroom closes with a final show by the Grateful Dead, New Riders of the Purple Sage and the Blues Brothers

1979

January: San Francisco: The Avengers lose guitarist Greg Kinman, officially break up in June

2 February: Sid Vicious dies of a heroin overdose, New York

24 February: the Sex Pistols release album The Great Rock ‘n’ Roll Swindle, soundtrack for unreleased film, with vocals by Johnny Rotten, Sid Vicious, Steve Jones, Paul Cook and others

27 March: San Francisco: the Death Army performs at the Mabuhay Gardens for the last time

23 April: San Francisco: the Death Army performs at SFSU Barbary Coast, backing Pearl Harbour and the Explosions and Kid Courage

1979-1990: Punk, Post-punk: the “Winter of Discontent”:  Margaret Thatcher UK prime minister

8 June: Dave Edmunds releases album Repeat When Necessary, backed by Nick Lowe and Rockpile, members of Clover from California, produced by Edmunds. Huey Lewis plays harmonica on his song “Bad Is Bad”

9 June: Nick Lowe releases album Labour of Lust, backed by Dave Edmunds and Rockpile, members of Clover from California, produced by Lowe. Huey Lewis plays harmonica on “Born Fighter”

June: San Francisco: The Avengers break up

15 June: Joy Division releases their first album, Unknown Pleasures, produced by Martin Hannett

6 July: The B-52’s release their first album, The B-52’s, produced by Chris Blackwell

7 September: The Slits release their first album, Cut

14 December: The Clash release their third album, London Calling, produced by Guy Stevens

27 December: The Pretenders release their first album, Pretenders, produced by Chris Thomas and Nick Lowe

1980

15 May: Director Julien Temple releases Sex Pistols film The Great Rock ‘n’ Roll Swindle

18 May: Joy Division lead singer Ian Curtis hangs himself, Macclesfield, UK

June: Joy Division releases hit single “Love Will Tear Us Apart”

29 July: Surviving members of Joy Division perform for the first time without Ian Curtis, other members on lead vocals, Manchester

Summer: band members travel to New York and New Jersey, record "Ceremony" and "In a Lonely Place," Ears studio, Trenton

Band members meet a promoter and scenester who takes them clubbing in Manhattan, experience sequenced dance music and widely diverse playlists at Danceteria, Peppermint Lounge, Mudd Club, Area, Tunnel, the Palladium

October: New Order: Bernard Sumner takes over vocals, Gillian Gilbert joins on keyboards and guitar

20 October: U2 release their first album, Boy, produced by Steve Lillywhite

1981

January: New Order releases first single "Ceremony" b/w "In a Lonely Place," produced by Martin Hannett

The Punts featuring singer/songwriter Bonnie Hayes release single “Shelly’s Boyfriend,” San Francisco

19 March: U2 play the Old Waldorf, San Francisco supporting their Boy album

25 April: Silvertone play the On Broadway, San Francisco featuring singer/songwriter Chris Isaak, Jimmy Wilsey on lead guitar, the Stench Brothers on rhythm

8 May: Johnny Thunders & the Heartbreakers play the Stone, San Francisco

29 July: Bill Nelson plays The Stone, San Francisco

15 August: The Pretenders release their second album, Pretenders II, produced by Chris Thomas

21 August: Chrome plays the On Broadway, San Francisco with the Stench Brothers on rhythm, backed by MX 80 Sound

24 August: the Rolling Stones release their 18th album, Tattoo You

4 September 1981: Simple Minds release their double album Sons and Fascination/Sister Feelings Call, produced by Steve Hillage

6 September: The Psychedelic Furs play the Warfield, San Francisco

6 November: The Cramps play the On Broadway, San Francisco with Kid Congo Powers on guitar, backed by Tav Falco's Panther Burns

15 November: new owners of San Francisco radio station KSAN-FM switch to Country/Western format

1982

Chris Spedding plays the Stone, San Francisco

4 May: the Associates release their second album, Sulk, produced by the Associates and Mike Hedges

8 June: Laker Tours: Bow Wow Wow (Your Cassette Pet) plays the Kabuki Theatre, backed by The Units, San Francisco

21 June: ABC releases their first album, The Lexicon of Love, produced by Trevor Horn

25 June: Laker Tours: Duran Duran plays the Kabuki Theatre, San Francisco

5 September: Laker Tours: Gang of Four plays the Kabuki Theatre, backed by Translator, San Francisco

17 September: Simple Minds release their fifth album, New Gold Dream (81–82–83–84), produced by Peter Walsh

2 December: Laker Tours: ABC plays the Kabuki Theatre with a 30-piece all-woman orchestra, supporting the Lexicon of Love album, backed by Translator, San Francisco

15 December: Bauhaus plays the Old Waldorf, San Francisco

1983

12 April: Laker Tours: Simple Minds plays the Kabuki Theatre, San Francisco, supporting the New Gold Dream album

12 November: Big Country plays Wolfgang’s, San Francisco

Punk Personae

1938-2022 Jet Black (Brian Duffy) - The Stranglers

1941-2022 Vivienne Westwood - New York Dolls, SEX, Sex Pistols, Seditionaries

1941-2023 Nora Forster - Ari Up’s mother, John Lydon’s wife

1944 Dave Edmunds - Rockpile

1945-1981 Bob Marley - Bob Marley and the Wailers

1945 Debbie Harry - Blondie

1946-2010 Malcolm McLaren - New York Dolls, SEX, Sex Pistols, Seditionaries

1946 Patti Smith - Patti Smith Group

1947-2016 David Bowie (David Jones)

1947 Iggy Pop (James Newell Osterberg Jr.) - The Stooges

1948-2004 Johnny Ramone (John Cummings) - The Ramones

1949-2014 Tommy Ramone (Thomas Erdelyi) - The Ramones

1949-2020 Dave Greenfield - The Stranglers

1949 Hugh Cornwell - The Stranglers

1949-2023 Tom Verlaine (Thomas Miller) - Television, Patti Smith

1949 Richard Hell (Richard Meyers) - Television, Heartbreakers, Voidoids

1949 Nick Lowe - Brinsley Schwarz, Rockpile

1950 Chris Stein - Blondie

1950 David Johansen - New York Dolls

1951-2021 Sylvain Sylvain (Sylvain Mizrahi) - New York Dolls

1951 Chrissie Hynde - The Pretenders

1951-2001 Joey Ramone (Jeffrey Hyman) - The Ramones

1951-2002 DeeDee Ramone (Douglas Colvin) - The Ramones

1952-1991 Johnny Thunders (John Genzale) - New York Dolls, Heartbreakers

1952-2002 - Joe Strummer (John Graham Mellor) - The 101ers, The Clash

1952 Howard Devoto (Howard Trafford) - Buzzcocks

1952 Jean-Jacques Burnel - The Stranglers

1954 Viv Albertine - Flowers of Romance, The Slits

1954 Palmolive (Paloma Romero) - Flowers of Romance, The Slits

1954 Elvis Costello (Declan MacManus)

1955-2018 Pete Shelley (Peter McNeish) - Buzzcocks

1955 Steven Severin (Steven Bailey) - Siouxsie and the Banshees

1955-2022 Jordan (Pamela Rooke) - Too Fast to Live, Too Young to Die, SEX

1955 Mick Jones - London SS, The Clash

1955 Paul Simonon - The Clash

1955 Topper Headon - The Clash

1955 Steve Jones - Strand, Swankers, Sex Pistols, The Professionals

1956 Johnny Rotten, John Lydon - Sex Pistols, PIL

1956 Glen Matlock - Strand, Swankers, Sex Pistols

1956 Paul Cook - Strand, Swankers, Sex Pistols, The Professionals

1956 Bernard Sumner - Warsaw, Joy Division, New Order

1956-1980 Ian Curtis - Warsaw, Joy Division

1956 Peter Hook - Warsaw, Joy Division, New Order

1956 Don Letts - Filmmaker, DJ

1957-1979 Sid Vicious (John Ritchie or Beverley) - Flowers of Romance, Sex Pistols

1957 Stephen Morris - Warsaw, Joy Division, New Order

1957 Siouxsie Sioux (Susan Ballion) - Siouxsie and the Banshees

1957 Budgie (Peter Clarke) - Slits, Banshees

1957-2022 Keith Levene - The Clash, Flowers of Romance, PIL

1958 Jah Wobble (John Wardle) - PIL

1959 Tessa Pollitt - The Slits

1961 Gillian Gilbert - The Inadequates, New Order

1962-2010 Ari Up (Arianne Forster) - The Slits