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Punk Script Improved

Punk emerged in the mid-1970s as a rejection of mainstream rock music and fashion. Bands like the Ramones and Sex Pistols stripped rock down to its basics and adopted a DIY aesthetic. Punk's shock value came partly from its fashion of torn clothes and Mohawks. In the late 1970s, punk exploded in popularity but also commercialized, diluting its extreme image and message. While punk died down, elements of its rebellious spirit lived on in new wave bands and later pop punk revivals, even if they didn't fully capture punk's original impact. Today, underground punk bands still play fast and loud, focusing on the music over flashy fashion.

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Punk Script Improved

Punk emerged in the mid-1970s as a rejection of mainstream rock music and fashion. Bands like the Ramones and Sex Pistols stripped rock down to its basics and adopted a DIY aesthetic. Punk's shock value came partly from its fashion of torn clothes and Mohawks. In the late 1970s, punk exploded in popularity but also commercialized, diluting its extreme image and message. While punk died down, elements of its rebellious spirit lived on in new wave bands and later pop punk revivals, even if they didn't fully capture punk's original impact. Today, underground punk bands still play fast and loud, focusing on the music over flashy fashion.

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PARENTAL ADVISORY – SOME LANGUAGE MAY BEEN OFFENSIVE

SCENE 1: OPENING
FADE IN - GREENSCREEN – Kings Rd, London
– Street SFX - Pretty Vacant guitar BED

 Few genres have had the lasting impact of punk.


 1976 is one of those seismic dividing lines in popular music, a
history-destroying year zero.
 The point after which everything changed.
 It was the year the Ramones released their debut.
 It was the year that the first punk singles from the UK punk-
scene were set loose upon an unprepared public
 and while punks wanted to remove themselves from the past,
 burn all that had come before,
 nothing happens within a vacuum.
 These bands didn’t appear out of nowhere with the key
principles of the NEW genre set in place.
 There were generations of music before it.

SCENE 2: TITLE SEQUENCE

70’s PUNK
The TRANSITION of Fashion
and Music
SCENE 3: IN YOUR FACE PERFORMANCE
ARCHIVE FOOTAGE – SEX PISTOLS – PRETTY VACANT

 Punk - at its essence, is Rock’n’roll stripped down


 this was when the first glimmer of proto-punk emerged.

SCENE 4: PROTO PUNK


IN FRONT OF JUKEBOX

 Link ray’s record ‘Rumble’ set the precedent for the distorted 3
chord punk sound,
 released in 1958
 Rumble had created a monumental moment for the genre
 US radio banned the track’s play because they thought It would
provoke public disturbance…
 little did they no - it would be the benchmark for anarchists and 3
chord thrash.

 It was this track that inspired the pioneers of the genre

SCENE 5: IGGY POP

*Iggy pop interview Stephen Colbert show 2013*

SCENE 6: PUSH BUTTONS ON JUKEBOX – RECORD LOADS


PLAY RUMBLE

SCENE 7: ARCHIVE SCENES OF 50’s & 60’s BANDS


RUMBLE IN BACKGROUND
VIDEOS OF 50’s and 60’s BANDS (Bill Haley, The Animals, The Doors)

 Even though bands had their own particular sound


 Many hadn’t developed a unique fashion as the majority of
them followed the mainstream styles of the day
SCENE 8: PUNK’S BIRTH
GREENSCREEN – New York Fashion Expo – New York Dolls on stage

 It was 1975 when fashion designers Malcolm McLaren and


girlfriend Vivian Westwood went to New York to attend the
‘New York fashion exhibition’
 this led to McLaren sparking a friendship with the hard rock
band the New York dolls.
 By March of that year, McLaren had become their manager
 reinventing their image and bridging the gap between music
and fashion
 without knowing it McLaren and Westwood had become the
parents of the new punk image.

Chrissy Hynde Archive clip

SCENE 9: Kings Rd London


 The couple were running a shop on the king’s road in London,
 selling revamped second-hand clothes and records
 It was a place to hang-out for punks and local art students
 Two of those customers was John Lydon and John Beverley
known later as Sid Vicious

Sex pistols clip

SCENE 10: SEX PISTOLS CLIP


 With a new sense of style and a crate Full of rock records John Lydon
now the lead singer for the Sex Pistols started to cover these records
sped up and with more attitude. Old clothes old music but with a new
image that had shock value.

 McLaren (now the manager of the Sex Pistols) and Westwood had
realised that shock sells,
 The shop had changed it’s name to SEX and they were now selling
leather and latex clothing as stage-gear and casual wear
SCENE 11: ARCHIVE FOOTAGE: PUNK ROCK FIGHTS

 After several fights at gigs and a shocking Thames Television interview


with TV presenter Bill Grundy, punk rock had moved music to the
forefront of everyone's attention.

SCENE 12: DAILY MIRROR NEWPAPER


IN FRONT OF GREENSCREEN

 This wasn't old rock and roll anymore - this was new radical punk rock.
 There had been a transition in fashion, music and attitudes

SCENE 13: INVERIEWS / VOX POP


Interview with dad

How would you define punk?


Are you punk if you follow the music but not the fashion?
Do you think the anti-societal attitude is important if you like the music?

Interview with other people

SCENE 14: EXPLOITATION OF PUNK AND THE COMMERCIALISATION OF PUNK


MUSIC CHANGE

ARCHIVE CLIP: JOY DIVISION - TRANSMISSION

 In the late 70’s punk had a wider following and record companies had
come of board to sell this new music genre.
 The extreme fashion was diluted – as the music began to appeal to a
wider audience
 It wasn’t now about shock

 Bands stopped idolising anarchy and liberation and started internalising


the punk outrage.
 punk had lit the flame at both ends and as a result burnt out too quick.
 Post punk was the reincarnation of it.
Interview

Would you class new wave; at its core punk?


(reference Adam and the ants, there look was new wave, but their sound was
punk)
So, does punk start at the fashion or the sound?

SCENE 15: THE NEW WAVE OF FASHION

 Vivian Westwood would return to be the fashion designer for a lot of


these new wave bands styling them in a new way to their predecessors.

 Both the sound and fashion transitioned in the years of punk and post-
punk.

 The fashion of these bands would be the easy way of categorising their
music such as ‘Adam and the ants’, ‘Visage’ and ‘Gang of four’.

 Ultimately whatever they dressed in – if wasn’t held together with


safety pins they weren’t punk.

SCENE 16: Modern Punk

 A lot of people say punk died on January 14th, 1978


 the final sex pistols gig.
 Punk would lie dormant for years until the 2000’s pop punk revival.
 Pop punk would also be short lived as it didn’t carry the weight that
original punk had
 as many of the pop punk bands were pretty faces singing pop songs over
the top of heavily produced beds.
 These new faces dressed in as low-key version of their predecessors,
 spiked hair, chains, and torn clothing but that wasn’t enough to keep the
genre from being more than just a passing fad.

Mest - dillio
SCENE 17: MODERN AGE

 Today in the modern age every genre of music has its gems.
 Even punk.
 Although the genre has returned to being heavily underground.
 The music has been stripped down to basics and follows the original
punk principles
 not to say some of them weren’t inspired by new wave or pop punk,
 but its truer to the sound of 3 chord thrash.
 Although it some-what sounds the same - it doesn’t look the same,
 modern punk rock is focused on the sound and not the fashion
 as a lot of these artists rock up to their gigs in t shirt and jeans
 some dress in what is currently trending.
 But very few dress in a cobbled together mess of tartan and leather.

PUP & FIDLAR

 Punk may have faded


 but not all is lost,
 a lot of this underground talent sticks to the old school formula,
 play loud and play fast.

Play out
Questions for Tony
 How would you define punk?
 Which punk bands influenced you?
 Did you go in to 143 Kings Rd?
 143 King’s Rd What was it like? Atmosphere? Who were the sort of
people that went into the shop?
 Did you ever meet Malcolm & Vivienne?
 Did the music inspire the fashion or did the fashion inspire the music?
 What sort of reaction did you get from the older generations?
 Are you punk if you follow the music but not the fashion?

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