


Johnny Ramone credits this song with being a big influence on his down stroke style and considered it the first punk rock song. The Led Zeppelin (album)'s song Communication Breakdown was influential with a very simple song structure with an angry edge that would come to define punk rock. Hard rock bands Led Zeppelin and Deep Purple also played a key role introducing elements of the style to the masses in 19 respectively. Glam rock in the UK and The New York Dolls from New York have also been cited as key influences. Certain late 1960s and early 1970s Detroit acts, such as MC5 and Iggy and The Stooges, and others from elsewhere created out-of-the-mainstream music that became highly influential on what was to come. The term "punk rock" was previously used by American rock critics in the early 1970s to describe the mid-1960s garage bands. Punk embraces a DIY ethic many bands self-produce recordings and distribute them through independent record labels. They typically produced short, fast-paced songs with hard-edged melodies and singing styles, stripped-down instrumentation, and often shouted political, anti-establishment lyrics. Rooted in 1960s garage rock, punk bands rejected the perceived excesses of mainstream 1970s rock. Punk rock (or simply punk) is a music genre that emerged in the mid-1970s. Late 1960s to mid-1970s, United States, United Kingdom, and Australia For the 2009 play by Simon Stephens, see Punk Rock (play). For the original 1960s genre known as "punk" or "punk rock", see Garage rock.
