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1. Article · Sep 5, 2026 · Alan di Perna

   “Right when I started with the Ramones is when I bought a guitar. The first song I learned to play was a Ramones song”: How the Ramones took New York punk round the world (opens the original)

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   This feature was originally published in the January 1995 issue of Guitar World. The successful implementation of a revolution requires two things: thinkers and thugs. Individually, these groups are powerless. But put them together and you've got a mighty fighting machine: the thinkers set the agenda and the thugs put in the boot. Luckily, the primordial New York punk scene was blessed with its share of both species. So, odd as it might seem, the first “punk” gig was a poetry reading. In Februar

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2. Article · Aug 2, 2026 · Alan di Perna

   “All I was using was one Fender Twin Reverb, which I stole off Bob Marley… I had it turned up to 10 the whole time”: Stolen amps and punk rivalry – inside the making of the Sex Pistols’ Never Mind the Bollocks (opens the original)

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   This feature was originally published in the January 1995 issue of Guitar World. Punk lore has it that British punk began on the 4th of July, 1976, when the Ramones played the Roundhouse in London. They shared the bill with the Flamin’ Groovies; the Stranglers were the opening act. The following night Joey, Johnny, Dee Dee, and Tommy played another London rock club, Dingwalls. It’s been said, only half in jest, that everyone who went on to be in a major London punk band was at one of those two s

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