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Ep. 31: Punk's Creative Destruction

The Re-Education with Eli Lake

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Punk Rock in the Seventies and Early Eighties

Punk in the late seventies and early eighties was such a phenomenon. It wasn't just music that stripped the artifice away from arena rock but also prompted this parental freak out. A classic episode of the television show quincy, where jack lugman plays a crime stopping medical examiner, best illustrates this moral here's a club. She comes home and she finds her daughter burning cigarette holes in her arm, shredding her clothes to bits, taking pills and locking herself in a room. Later on in that episode, quincey actually writes up a report that blames punk rock for the murder of a teen age boy he's investigating. It's wild stuff. Now, it turns

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