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Lester Bangs
Lester Bangs
American music critic and journalist
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Ivan Král
Ivan Král
Czech-American musician
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The Stooges
The Stooges
American punk rock band
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Mick Rock
Mick Rock
British photographer, music video director
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Kevin Armstrong
Kevin Armstrong
English rock guitarist, record producer and songwriter
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The Dirtbombs
The Dirtbombs
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James Williamson
James Williamson
American musician
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Ben Blackwell
Ben Blackwell
American musician
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Suicide
Suicide
American musical duo
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Rich Kids
Rich Kids
British new wave band from London
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Iggy Pop
Iggy Pop
American musician
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Rob Younger
Rob Younger
Australian musician
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Lou Reed
Lou Reed
American musician, recording artist, singer-songwriter (1942-2013)
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Mick Collins
Mick Collins
American singer (*1965)
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MC5
MC5
American garage rock band
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? and the Mysterians
? and the Mysterians
American garage rock band
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Pylon
Pylon
US rock band
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The Rolling Stones
The Rolling Stones
English rock band
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Pushead
Pushead
American artist, record label owner, and writer
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Revenge of the Psychotronic Man
Revenge of the Psychotronic Man
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The Birthday Party
The Birthday Party
Australian band
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Buzzcocks
Buzzcocks
British band
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Mick Taylor
Mick Taylor
British rock musician, former member of The Rolling Stones
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Green on Red
Green on Red
band
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Tobi Vail
Tobi Vail
American musician
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The Weirdos
The Weirdos
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The Clash
The Clash
British punk rock band
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The Punks were an American proto-punk band from Waterford, Michigan near Detroit, who were active from 1973-1977. They specialized in a hard-driving, sometimes thrashing sound that anticipated much mid-to-late 1970s punk rock and 1980s hardcore. The group came out of the last vestiges of the Detroit rock scene that produced bands such as MC5, Iggy and the Stooges, and Death, and with these acts they formed a musical bridge between the garage rock bands of the 1960s and the later punk movement that emerged in New York and London during the mid-1970s. In 1977 they changed their name to the End and moved to New York with hopes of making their mark in the burgeoning punk rock scene there, but were unsuccessful, and broke up shortly thereafter. Though relatively unknown outside of Detroit and New York in their day, they have more recently garnered the interest and accolades of underground rock enthusiasts who consider them to be pioneers in the early development of punk rock. Parts of their song "My Time's Comin'" were used in the soundtrack of two March 2016 episodes of the television series, Vinyl, co-created by the Rolling Stones’ Mick Jagger and director Martin Scorsese.