Punk is old

Happy slightly belated 50th anniversary to Punk magazine, which apparently first burst onto the world on January 2nd 1976. The term “punk” had been circulating for a few years but mostly in relation to 60s garage rock; I gather Punk was a big player in drawing attention to a certain contemporary scene in New York (and other US cities and, lest we forget, Australia) that had been percolating around that time and the term “punk” being used to describe that new music. Plus it wound up originating thousands of print followers of its own. I wonder if messrs Holmstrom and McNeil ever thought that music would become a kind of “classic rock” in the way that certain strains of 60s and earlier 70s rock became thus enshrined during the 80s, though…