List of musicians in the first wave of punk music

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This is a list of notable early punk rock musicians (1975-1979).

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• 999

A

• Abrasive Wheels
• Adam and the Ants
• The Adicts
• The Adolescents
• The Adverts
• Alternative TV
• Amazorblades
• Amebix
• Angelic Upstarts
• Angry Samoans
• Anti-Nowhere League
• Anti-Pasti
• Au Pairs
• The Avengers

B

• Bad Brains
• The Bags
• Big Balls and the Great White Idiot
• Big Black
• Big in Japan
• Bl'ast
• Black Flag
• Black Randy and the Metrosquad
• Blitz
• Blondie
• The Boomtown Rats
• The Boys
• Buzzcocks

C

• Catholic Discipline
• Channel 3
• Chaos U.K.
• Charged GBH
• Chelsea
• Cherry Vanilla
• Circle Jerks
• The Clash
• Cock Sparrer
• Cockney Rejects
• The Cortinas
• The Cramps
• Crass

D

• The Damned
• The Dead Boys
• Dead Kennedys
• Dead Milkmen
• Descendents
• Desperate Bicycles
• D.I.
• The Dicks
• The Dictators
• The Dils
• The Diodes
• Discharge
• Disorder
• DMZ
• D.O.A.
• Destroy All Monsters
• The Drones

E-F

• The East Coast Angels
• Eater
• Ebba Grön
• Eddie and the Hot Rods
• The Exploited
• The Fall
• Fang
• Fatal Microbes
• Fear
• The Feederz
• The Flesheaters
• The Flowers of Romance
• Forgotten Rebels

G-H

• G.G. Allin
• Generation X
• The Germs
• The Heartbreakers
• Hüsker Dü
• The Hollywood Squares

I-J

• Iggy Pop
• The Jam
• The Jerks
• JFA
• Johnny Moped
• Joy Division

K-L

• Legal Weapon
• LiLiPUT
• London
• London SS
• The Lurkers

M

• Magazine
• The Mekons
• The Members
• The Membranes
• Métal Urbain
• Metro
• Minor Threat
• Minutemen
• Misfits
• Mission of Burma
• Jon Moss
• The Mutants

N-O

• Negative Trend
• Nervous Gender
• Nina Hagen Band
• The Nipple Erectors
• The Now
• The Only Ones
• The Outsiders

P

• The Pagans
• The Partisans
• Patti Smith
• Penetration
• Peter and the Test Tube Babies
• The Plague
• Plasmatics
• Poison Idea
• Poison Girls
• The Prefects
• Public Image Limited

R

• Radio Birdman
• Radio Stars
• The Ramones
• Reagan Youth
• The Rezillos
• Riff Regan
• Rikki and the Last Days on Earth
• Riot/Clone
• The Ruts
• The Radiators From Space

S

• The Saints
• Scars
• The Screamers
• Sex Pistols
• Sham 69
• Siouxsie & the Banshees
• The Sillies
• The Skids
• Skrewdriver
• The Skulls
• Slaughter & The Dogs
• The Slits
• Social Distortion
• Special Duties
• The Spitfire Boys
• Spizz Energi
• Splodgenessabounds
• Stagebeast
• Steve Bjorklund
• Stiff Little Fingers
• Stinky Toys
• The Stranglers
• Subhumans
• Suburban Studs
• Subway Sect
• Suicide
• The Suicide Commandos
• Swell Maps

T

• TSOL
• The Table
• Teenage Head
• Television
• The Television Personalities
• Tenpole Tudor
• Toy Dolls

U-V

• U.K. Subs
• The Undertones
• Ultravox!
• Urinals
• The Valves
• The Varukers
• The Vibrators
• Vice Squad
• The Viletones
• The Voidoids
• VOM
• Vomit Pigs

W-X

• Wayne County & the Electric Chairs
• The Weirdos
• Wipers
• Wire
• X (American band)
• X (Australia)
• XTC
• X-Ray Spex

Y-Z

• Zero Boys
• The Zeros (UK)
• The Zeros (US)
• The Zounds