The first punk single released in the UK was "New Rose" by The Damned in April 1976. Which was the first in the USA?

elburcher

The Crime was an early US punk band from San Francisco. The band was formed in 1976 by Johnny Strike (voc., guit.), Frankie Fix (guit.), Ron "The Ripper" Greco (bass; ex-Chosen Few/Flamin' Groovies) and Ricky James (drums). Their debut, the self-financed double A-side, Hot wire my heart and Baby your so repulsive, appeared at the end of 1976, and is possibly the first single released by a US punk act. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_(band) Jul 03 06, 6:24 PM

author

The Ramones signed a contract for their first LP in the autumn of 1975, but I don´t now the exact release date for this album, or for their first single. It might have been released prior to The Crime? Jul 04 06, 8:23 AM

MyAlias

My vote has to go with the Queen of Punk. Patti Smith. The phrase "punk rock" (from "punk", meaning a beginner or novice[1]) was originally applied to the untutored guitar-and-vocals-based rock and roll of United States bands of the mid-1960s such as The Standells, The Sonics, and The Seeds, bands that now are more often categorized as "garage rock". The term was coined by rock critic Dave Marsh, who used it to describe the music of ? and the Mysterians in the May 1971 issue of Creem magazine[2], and it was adopted by many rock music journalists in the early 1970s. For example, in the liner notes of the 1972 anthology album Nuggets, critic and guitarist Lenny Kaye uses the term "punk-rock" to refer to the Sixties "garage rock" groups, as well as some of the darker and more primitive practitioners of 1960s psychedelic rock. Shortly after the time of those notes, Lenny Kaye formed a band with avant-garde poet Patti Smith. Smith's group, and her first album, Horses, released in 1975, directly inspired many of the mid-1970s punk rockers, so this suggests one path by which the term migrated to the music we now know as punk. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punk_rock http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punk_rock Patti Smith (born December 30, 1946) is an American musician, singer, and poet. She came to prominence during the punk movement with her 1975 debut album Horses. Called "punk rock's poet laureate", she brought a feminist and intellectual take to punk music and became one of rock and roll's most influential female musicians. Contents http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patti_Smith Jul 04 06, 8:37 AM