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Any half decent bookshelf dedicated to tomes about popular music will be groaning under the weight of volumes about the UK punk explosion.
A lot will be made of the impact the movement had on every facet of life in this country, most obviously on music, but also on fashion, art, literature and politics and there will be plenty written on the supposedly radical contributions made by the likes of the Sex Pistols, The Clash and Buzzcocks.
But how radical were they in reality?More