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Avengers (band)

American punk rock band

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 28, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

The Avengers are an American punk rock band formed in 1977 in San Francisco. The band recorded an EP, We Are the One (1977) and, after opening for the Sex Pistols, worked with Steve Jones, but had not released an album before breaking up in 1979. After the breakup an EP with the Steve Jones-produced songs was released, and later an album, Avengers, in 1983. Their lead singer, Penelope Houston, is also a folk singer who has a solo career. Since 1999 a number of other albums were released with studio and live tracks, and the band has come together for various occasions.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Avengers (band)” as american punk rock band. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1977, 1979, 1983, 1999—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Avengers, band and American can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as american punk rock band. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 28, 2026. The first chronological checks are 1977, 1979, 1983 and 1999.

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This entry incorporates text from “Avengers (band)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.