UK punk’s DIY parish magazine gets anthologised.
Bored 19-year-old Lewisham bank clerk and music fan Mark Perry, weaned on glam and currently favouring Zappa and the Blue Öyster Cult, voraciously consumed the ‘big four’ music papers in 1976. Alerted to thehe found himself in thrall of the Ramones. Catching the band at London’s Roundhouse, he hooked up with like-minded fans Shane MacGowan and Brian James, who told him about his own band, The Damned.
