"I don't know what it's gonna be called, but I know it's gonna start here."
In 1976, everything changed. In New York basements and London squats, a new generation declared war on everything their parents' music represented. They couldn't play their instruments. They didn't care. They were punk.
Nick Razer's "You Ain't Punk You're a Poseur" is the definitive history of punk rock's explosive birth—from the proto-punk experiments of the Stooges and New York Dolls to the three-chord revolution of the Ramones, from the calculated chaos of the Sex Pistols to the political fury of the Clash.
But this is more than a history of bands. Razer explores the DIY ethos that made punk a movement, the fanzine culture that gave it a voice, and the fashion that made it visible. He traces how punk spread from its twin capitals to become a global force, how it fragmented into hardcore, post-punk, and a thousand other directions, and why its spirit continues to inspire everyone who refuses to accept the world as it is.
This is punk's story, told by someone who understands that the music was only ever part of it.