Punk rock comes to canada (1977 CBC)

http://archives.cbc.ca/arts_entertainment/music/topics/102/

Broadcast Date: Sept. 27, 1977
The influence of punk rock's anarchists with their out-of-tune guitars and safety-pinned lips makes its way to Canada. It has been over a year since punk's founding bands, like New York's the Ramones and Britain's the Sex Pistols, started playing gigs. During that time, critics popularized punk while parents spurned it. On Sept. 27, 1977 Canadian basement bands the Poles, Teenage Head and the Viletones play a five-hour show.

Seventeen-year-old girls in their punkish garb come out to watch the gig. They say they're bored with life and show off scars from "slashing" themselves. CBC reporter Hana Gartner takes a look at what's behind punk's hostility, defiance and self-mutilation.





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