The Bad Penny (beta)

The Stooges, Death, New York Dolls and Patti Smith are the four primary artists responsible for embracing the brash, iconoclastic, middle-finger-to-the-system attitude that pervaded the broad musical art form that eventually acquired the name “punk rock.”

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