History of Punk

The British rock band manager, Malcolm MacLaren, once remarked that rock music remained the only form of culture that youth - those most receptive to radical ideas, who hold the most potential for social action - cared about. For the young, everything flowed through rock'n'roll: fashion, slang, sexual attitudes, drug habits, and poses. Once he realized the financial potential behind these sociological traits, the cunning MacLaren kept an eye on the rock music underground as …

…en and he quickly died in captivity. Objecting to his capture in a statement at the end of the last Sex Pistols tour, he said "Have you ever felt you've been cheated?” Here he was discribing his own fate rather than those in the audience. Later he would form a band sarcastically named Public Image and wrote the title song which describes a bitter embrace of success seen through the eyes of the quintessential punk.