- Ptooff! and Disposable (album) 1969 Bands formed Hawkwind Crushed Butler Albums MC5 – Kick Out the Jams The Stooges – The Stooges 1970s 1970 Bands formed Pink Fairies Shagrat (band) Third World War (band) Kilburn and the High Roads The Modern Lovers Suicide Figures of Light Ton Steine Scherben Albums MC5 – Back in the USA The Stooges – Funhouse Early Punk 1971 Bands formed New York Dolls Death NEU! 1972 Bands formed Cock Sparrer DEVO electric eels Neon Boys Swell Maps Sniper Albums NEU! – NEU! 1973 Bands formed The Saints Simply Saucer Television The Punks Tiger Lily (later became Ultravox!) Zolar X Albums New York Dolls – New York Dolls The Stooges – Raw Power 1974 Bands formed Blondie The Dictators Patti Smith Group Pure Hell Rocket from the Tombs Ramones The Stranglers Talking Heads Radio Birdman The 101'ers Albums New York Dolls – Too Much Too Soon Events Television and Ramones start performing at CBGB. Songs "Damned Flame" by Blast 1975 Bands formed The Adicts Big Balls and the Great White Idiot The Boomtown Rats Cherry Vanilla The Heartbreakers London SS Motörhead Negative Trend The Nuns Pere Ubu Richard Hell and the Voidoids The Runaways The Screamers Sex Pistols Sham 69 The Suicide Commandos Teenage Head Throbbing Gristle The Undertones Slaughter & The Dogs The Weirdos Albums Peter Hammill – Nadir's Big Chance The Dictators – Go Girl Crazy! Patti Smith - Horses Disbandments Rocket from the Tombs Events Television demo tape with Brian Eno is passed by Island Records. Richard Hell leaves. Sex Pistols play first gig opening for Bazooka Joe . Bazooka Joe singer Stuart Goddard changes name to Adam Ant, forms Adam and the Ants. Punk rock 1976 Bands formed Abrasive Wheels The Adverts Alternative TV The Art Attacks The Boys Black Flag Buzzcocks Chelsea The Clash The Cramps Crime The Damned Dead Boys DMZ Eater The Fall The Flowers of Romance Gang of Four Generation X The Jam Johnny Moped London The Lurkers Madness Masters of the Backside The Mekons Métal Urbain Paraf Penetration Pork Dukes The Prefects The Rezillos Siouxsie and the Banshees The Slickee Boys The Slits Subway Sect UK Subs Ultravox! The Vibrators VOM Warsaw (later to become Joy Division) Wire X-Ray Spex The Zeros Albums Ramones – Ramones The Runaways – The Runaways Blondie - Blondie Singles Ramones - Blitzkrieg bop (single released in February) The Damned –