PUNK ROCK

Punk developed in England as a reaction of those musicians born in the 1950s and 1960s to the increasingly slick, commercial popular music associated with the first generation of rock stars born in the 1940s. (It is awesome to recall that the Rolling Stones, so raucously offensive in 1965, especially to older people, could be perceived a decade later as slick.) One assumption of punk was that anybody could play or write music—indeed, that musical talent might even be a liability...