50 years ago today - 100 Club punk festival
Line-up for the second night (September 21, 1976)

The Damned

Buzzcocks

Chris Spedding & The Vibrators

Stinky Toys (the French punk band that was unable to perform on the first night due to a lack of time)

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50 years ago today
Sex Pistols, The Clash, Subway Sect and Siouxsie and the Banshees at the first night at the 100 Club punk festival, September 20, 1976.

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🎶 Hello, Daddy, hello, Mom
I'm your ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch, cherry bomb 🍒

Released 50 years ago today

🍒Cherry Bomb, the debut Single by the Runaways 🍒

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50 years ago today 🍒
"Cherry Bomb" is a punk-influenced hard rock single by the all-female band the Runaways from their self-titled debut album, released on this day in 1976 🍒

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50 years ago
Johnny Ramone, Tommy Ramone, Joey Ramone and Dee Dee Ramone of The Ramones on stage at CBGB’s, NYC. September 1976.

📸 © Bob Gruen

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50 years ago
"I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend" is a song by the American punk rock band the Ramones, released september 1976 as the second single of the band

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50 years ago today

The Sex Pistols and their biggest supporters, The Bromley Contingent, Paris, September 4, 1976.

📸 Ray Stevenson

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50 years ago today
(Left to right) Iggy Pop, Nancy (back), Cyrinda Foxe and David Bowie at a Patti Smith concert, August 31, 1976, Lower Manhattan Club, New York

Photo by Bob Gruen

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50 years ago today
The iconic shot (along with an alternative view) of Don Letts on Portobello Road in London during the Notting Hill Carnival riots on August 30, 1976.

The image appeared on the cover of The Clash album Blackmarket Clash and inspired the band to write the song "White Riot."

📸 Rocco Macally

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50 years ago today

An original little poster of the famous Screen on the Green punk concert, August 29, 1976, featuring the Sex Pistols, TheClash (performing in London for the first time) and the Buzzcocks, all for £1.

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50 years ago
Siouxsie Sioux & Steve Severin, John Ingham (standing) and Johnny Rotten of the Sex Pistols as captured by Ray Stevenson in August 1976, after the “Screen on the Green” punk concert in Islington

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50 years ago today
On August 2, 1976, the Runaways played at CBGB in New York City.

It was their first trip to the East Coast, and the band consisted of Joan Jett, Jackie Fox, Lita Ford, Cherie Currie, and Sandy West.

Photos by Bob Gruen

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