Billy Idol says punk ‘didn’t make a dent in the political system’ — dangerousminds.net

In an interview with The Big Issue, Billy Idol, punk rock’s biggest mainstream apostate, gave some blunt answers to questions about punk’s early days and its impact. Was punk really the revolution it is supposed to have been or was it a natural evolution of what was going on at the time? It did come in the form of a revolution but at the same time it was rock ‘n’ roll music forwarding itself into the new age. There was a lot of prog rock in the ’70s, which was cool and everything, but there became a glut and it was very difficult for anything else to break through. There were great guitar pieces but a dearth of songs.

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