USA, 1995
World Premiere
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Director/Screenwriter: Ted Haimes Producers: Ted Haimes, Jeffrey Peisch Editor: Carol Dysinger Appearances by: Johny Lydon, Joe Strummer, Iggy Pop, Malcolm MacLaren, Joey Ramone, Richard Hill, Patti Smith, Elvis Costello, Exene Cervenica 62 minutes In the 70's when Rock and Roll went corporate, young musicians in England couldn't stand the status quo. "I had to write my own future," says Johnny Rotten (Sex Pistols). The whole failed mess that was England - wholesale unemployment, class wars, dreary housing projects - only offered hopelessness. "I wanna be an Anarchist," sang Johny and meant it. On the other side of the pond, Iggy Pop "hated school, hated being in office clothes, hated the guys in the fraternity in the college town where I lived. Hated the whole American dream." The New York Dolls, Velvet Underground, The Ramones, Talking Heads, Slash didn't want recording deals. They wanted to tell the establishment how badly it had let them down and they wanted a place to play. That place was CBGB, a New York club in the low rent district...Related with the sober insight of middle-age, PUNK is about music, but also about one shining moment of authenticity in music - when the only agenda was to say what you felt and deeply feel what you had to say.. |
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