wasn't the first punk song penned sometime in the forties in a penitentiary?
I believe it went something like, "oi ow oi/ owie/ slammed in the slammer/oi oi oi/ woe is me/fucked in the ass by society."
the skinny from wiki
The phrase "punk rock" (from "
punk", meaning a beginner or novice) was originally applied to the untutored
guitar-and-
vocals-based
rock and roll of United States bands of the mid-1960s such as
The Standells,
The Sonics, and
The Seeds, bands that now are more often categorized as "
garage rock".
The term was coined by rock critic
Dave Marsh, who used it to describe the music of
? and the Mysterians in the May 1971 issue of
Creem magazine
[1], and it was adopted by many rock music journalists in the early 1970s. For example, in the liner notes of the 1972 anthology album
Nuggets, critic and guitarist
Lenny Kaye uses the term "punk-rock" to refer to the Sixties "
garage rock" groups, as well as some of the darker and more primitive practitioners of 1960s
psychedelic rock. Shortly after the time of those notes, Lenny Kaye formed a band with
avant-garde poet
Patti Smith. Smith's group, and her first album,
Horses, released in 1975, directly inspired many of the mid-1970s punk rockers, so this suggests one path by which the term migrated to the music now known as punk.
In addition to the inspiration of those "
garage bands" of the 1960s, the roots of punk rock draw on the snotty attitude, on-stage and off-stage violence, and aggressive instrumentation of
The Who; the early
Rolling Stones,
Eddie Cochran,
Gene Vincent and
The Velvet Underground; as well as the sexuality, political confrontation, and on-stage violence of Detroit bands
Alice Cooper,
The Stooges and
MC5; the
English pub rock scene and political
UK underground bands such as
Mick Farren and the
Deviants; the
New York Dolls; and some British "
glam rock" or "
art rock" acts of the early 1970s, including
David Bowie,
Gary Glitter and
Roxy Music. Influence from other musical genres, including
reggae,
funk, and
rockabilly can also be detected in early punk rock.