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How Joe Strummer doomed his own original song on the U.K. singles chart
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The Sex Pistols song that shocked a nation
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Listen to the first British punk rock single
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Hear Elvis Costello's first recorded vocals (on his father's British TV ad for lemonade!)
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Babylon's Burning hinted at greatness for The Ruts. Then tragedy struck.
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The British pub rock band that inspired a generation of punk musicians
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Early XTC: Pop with a punk patina
One of my favorite British bands from the post-punk era is XTC.
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Listen to the first British punk rock single
With help from producer Nick Lowe, The Damned made music history in 1976
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Hear Elvis Costello's first recorded vocals (on his father's British TV ad for lemonade!)
I love to find the earliest possible recordings of my favorite artists.
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The greatest music PR stunt of all time
When the Sex Pistols crashed the Queen's Silver Jubilee with a serenade from the Thames
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The Sex Pistols gig that changed the course of British music history
On June 4, 1976, at Manchester's Lesser Free Trade Hall, 'the punk atom was split'
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In 'Year Zero' of British punk music, treacly crap and novelty songs topped the singles charts
According to music lore, 1976 generally is considered “Year Zero” in British punk.
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How Joe Strummer doomed his own original song on the U.K. singles chart
A couple of weeks ago I wrote about how Joe Strummer left The 101ers — the pub rock band he started with fellow squatters in London — in late May 1976…
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A Rebellious Noise
A Rebellious Noise
This Substack is dedicated to exposing more American music fans to British music and performers from the early 1970s through the early 1980s. Specifically, A Rebellious Noise focuses on pub rock, punk rock, and new wave (or post-punk).

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