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The Guardian - The Guide - 01/06/2002
The Punk Years
9pm, Play UK
"It was nothing to do with music," begins John Lydon in the first of many memorably cuttng quotes, on a series that charts the history of punk to its very beginnings. This first episode is entirely pre-1977: Gene Vincent and Elvis Presley are cited as the orginals, before we move on to some fantastic footage of Iggy And The Stooges and The MC5. Meanwhile, the forebears of punk's peacock strut, namely David Bowie and Roxy Music are cited by Lydon as the ones who really mattered: "Bryan Ferry's depravity introduced an attractive decadence to life; St Moritz cigarettes and cheap wine." Lydon has such an eloquent spit that other talking heads - Steve Severin, Mick Rock, Ian McCulloch, Crass's Penny Rimbaud and many more - can't really compete.
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