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‘Punk was like a bomb going off. By issue four, we were talking about taking over the music business’
Mark Perry, founder
I left school in 1974 and got a job as a bank clerk. I used to buy the NME and read about New York punk: the Ramones, Patti Smith, Television. When the Ramones’ debut album came out, it sounded so fresh and exciting. I was blown away. A kid like me would never have thought the music business was for them, but when you heard the Ramones, you thought: “I can do this.” Continue reading...