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A LITTLE BIT OF HISTORY Most of the first wave of British punk were born from art schools. Members from The Clash, Sex pistols, Damned, Wire, Adam and the ants, and Siouxsie and the banshees had all come from such places in and around London. A large contingent came from in and around the Kings road area of west London, and a lot of the first wave knew of each other first hand- Tony James (Gen X), Mick Jones (Clash). Topper Headen (Clash) and Keith Levine (Clash, Public image) had all been in the London SS, a Proto-punk band featuring the aforementioned all-star line-up. Shortly after The SS split, Tony James went to form Chelsea with future Generation X member and MTV pop star Billy Idol. In addition they recruited future Damned Guitarist and leader Brian James. Siouxie Sioux had played in a band at the 100 club with Sid vicious on drums, and Future Adam and the ants member Marco Pironni, which gave "The lord's prayer" a refurbishing in a punk concept. Siouxie Sioux had also been in the Bromley Contingent, a small group of followers who were devoted to the cause of the Sex pistols, and managed to follow them onto the Bill Grundy show, "Today" In december 1976, where Sioux sparked off the use of four letter words when a drunken Grundy made some ill advised comments to her. The Clash's Leader, Joe Strummer had been plying his trade in the pub rock scene, which was instrumental to the rise of punk, with his previous band the 101'ers. As soon as he saw the Pistols, he knew his band was outdated. Strummer was actually an ex public schoolboy, and his dad was a worker in the national treasury of some sort. Other bands, such as the UK subs had also evolved from pub rock- Charlie Harper was in the marauders prior to forming the subs.
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