It wasn’t just a sound. It was a national threat.

In this third episode of History is a Riot, punk crosses the Atlantic — and detonates in a collapsing Britain.
We’re in London, 1976: high unemployment, garbage piling in the streets, and a generation ready to scream.

Enter the Sex Pistols, The Clash, The Damned, Siouxsie, safety pins, scandal, and Sid & Nancy.
This is how punk became working-class rebellion, media panic, fashion war, and full-blown cultural insurrection.

The U.K. didn’t invent punk.
But it weaponized it.

⚡ Featuring: Sex Pistols, The Clash, The Damned, X-Ray Spex, Buzzcocks, Siouxsie and the Banshees, and more.
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