Quote Originally Posted by Helen Wiggy View Post
People think of the Stranglers and Ian Dury/Blockheads as punk. Neither of them were musically but they had a punk ethos and were undoubtedly a part of that scene.
I think punk was just a name

Some of the heavy riffing by the stranglers , undertones , pistols .....bodies for example, as the song starts , stiff little fingers etc were straight out of the rock 🤘 locker

Killing Joke were popular with the punks late on the scene but a lot of heavy rocks fans like myself loved Killing Joke