List of 1970s punk rock musicians
Wikimedia music-related list
This is a list of notable first wave punk rock musicians (1971–1979).
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Abrasive Wheels
Adam & the Ants
The Adicts
Adolescents
The Adverts
Agent Orange
Alex Harvey
The Alley Cats (Los Angeles)
Alternative TV
Amazorblades
Amebix
Angelic Upstarts
Angry Samoans
Anti-Nowhere League
Anti-Pasti
Art Attacks
Au Pairs
The Avengers
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The B-52s
Bad Brains
Bags
Big Balls and the Great White Idiot
Big Boys
Big in Japan
Black Flag
Black Randy and the Metrosquad
Blitzkrieg Bop
The Blockheads
Blondie
The Boomtown Rats
The Boys
Bush Tetras
The Business
Buzzcocks
C
Catholic Discipline
Cardiac Kidz
Channel 3
Charged GBH
Chelsea
The Cheifs
Cherry Vanilla
China White
Christian Death
Chrome
Chron Gen
Circle Jerks
Circus Mort
The Clash
Cock Sparrer
Cockney Rejects
James Chance and the Contortions
The Controllers
The Cortinas
The Cramps
Crass
Crime
Crime & the City Solution
D
The Damned
Darby Crash
The Dead Boys
Dead Kennedys
Death
Defunkt
Descendents
Desperate Bicycles
Devo
The Dickies
The Dictators
The Dils
The Diodes
Discharge
Disorder
DMZ
DNA
D.O.A.
The Dogs
Destroy All Monsters
The Drones
Ian Dury
E
The East Coast Angels
Eater
Ebba Grön
Eddie and the Hot Rods
The Electric Eels
Elton Motello
Elvis Costello and the Attractions
The Exploited
F
The Fall
Fang
Fatal Microbes
The Fast
Fastbacks
Fear
The Feederz
Flamin' Groovies
The Flesh Eaters
The Fleshtones
The Flowers of Romance
Flyboys
Forgotten Rebels
Flipper
The Flys (UK band)
The Freeze
G
Gang of Four
Generation X
The Germs
GG Allin
The Go-Gos
The Gun Club
H
The Heartbreakers
Hüsker Dü
I
Iggy Pop
The Innocents
J
The Jam
Jayne County
The Jerks
Joan Jett
Johnny Moped
K
The Kids (Belgian band)
The Killjoys
Kommunity FK
KSMB
L
Leisure Class
LiLiPUT
London
London SS
The Lurkers
The Last
Lydia Lunch
M
Magazine
The Mau Maus
MC5
The Mekons
The Mentally Ill
The Members
The Membranes
Mentors
Métal Urbain
MDC
Middle Class
Milk 'N' Cookies
Mink DeVille
Minutemen
Misfits
Misspent Youth (band)
Mission of Burma
The Modern Lovers
Jon Moss
The Mutants
N
Necros
Negative Trend
Neo
Neon Boys
Neon Hearts
Nervous Gender
The New Order (band)
New York Dolls
Nina Hagen Band
The Nipple Erectors
The Now
The Nosebleeds
The Nuns
O
The Offs
The Only Ones
The Outcasts
The Outsiders
P
The Pagans
Patti Smith
The Partisans
Pere Ubu
Penetration
Peter and the Test Tube Babies
The Plague
Plasmatics
Poison Idea
Poison Girls
The Police
Pork Dukes
The Prefects
Public Image Ltd
Punishment of Luxury
Pure Hell
The Punks
Pylon
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