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Never Mind the Bollocks, Here’s Socrates
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Never Mind the Bollocks, Here’s Socrates
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The roots of punk go back much further than you think. Like 2,400 years back…
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Punk is a strange phenomenon. We associate it with the music born out of the economic stagnation of the mid-1970s; with the defiance of the ornate rock gods who had survived the 1960s. But if you think about it, punks have been with us since the beginning of time. Thomas Paine, Galileo, and Steve Jobs were punk too.

So with that in mind, the first punk w…

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