Timeline of Punk Rock - 1977

1977

• Bands formed
  • 999
  • Angelic Upstarts
  • Bad Brains
  • The Bags
  • Big in Japan
  • Black Flag
  • Black Randy and the Metrosquad
  • Crass
  • Desperate Bicycles
  • The Dickies
  • Discharge
  • Elvis Costello and the Attractions
  • Forgotten Rebels
  • Gang of Four
  • The Germs
  • Ebba Grön
  • Nina Hagen Band
  • KSU
  • The Members
  • The Misfits
  • The Nipple Erectors
  • The Pagans
  • Pankrti
  • Mr. Unique and the Leisure Suits
  • Radio Stars
  • The Rich Kids
  • The Skids
  • Skrewdriver
  • The Snivelling Shits
  • The Specials
  • Stiff Little Fingers
  • Warsaw (later to become Joy Division)
  • Wipers
  • X (Australia)
  • X (United States)

• Albums
  • 999 - 999
  • Big Balls and the Great White Idiot - Big Balls
  • Blondie - Plastic Letters
  • The Boomtown Rats - The Boomtown Rats
  • The Boys - The Boys
  • Buzzcocks - Spiral Scratch (EP)
  • The Clash - The Clash UK release
  • The Damned - Damned Damned Damned
  • The Damned - Music for Pleasure
  • Dead Boys - Young Loud and Snotty
  • The Dictators - Manifest Destiny
  • Elvis Costello - My Aim Is True
  • The Heartbreakers - L.A.M.F.
  • Richard Hell and the Voidoids - Blank Generation
  • The Jam - In the City
  • The Jam - This Is the Modern World
  • Ramones - Leave Home
  • Ramones - Rocket to Russia
  • Iggy Pop - The Idiot
  • Iggy Pop - Lust for Life
  • Pink Floyd - Animals
  • The Radiators From Space - TV Tube Heart
  • The Saints - (I'm) Stranded
  • Sex Pistols - Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols
  • Skrewdriver -All Skrewed Up
  • The Stranglers - Rattus Norvegicus
  • The Stranglers - No More Heroes
  • The Stranglers - The Stranglers (EP)
  • Suicide - Suicide
  • Talking Heads - Talking Heads: 77
  • Television - Marquee Moon
  • Throbbing Gristle - The Second Annual Report
  • Ultravox! - Young Savage 7"
  • Ultravox! - Ha!-Ha!-Ha!
  • Warsaw Pakt - Needle Time!
  • Wire - Pink Flag

• Disbandments
  • The Heartbreakers
  • London

• Events
  • On January 1, Andy Czezowski opens The Roxy in London solely as a venue for punk acts. The Clash perform on opening night.
  • Sex Pistols bassist Glen Matlock is fired from the Sex Pistols and is replaced with Sid Vicious. Matlock forms The Rich Kids.
  • In February Howard Devoto left Buzzcocks. Guitarist Pete Shelley became the vocalist.
  • The Clash begin their White Riot tour on March 1 in Guilford. They are supported by The Jam, Buzzcocks, The Slits and Subway Sect. The Jam leave the tour on March 22 after a dispute.
  • The Stranglers embark on a three month nationwide tour in May They are supported by the band London.
  • The Sex Pistols' single "God Save the Queen" is released on May 27 and reaches number two on the British charts. It is banned by BBC Radio 1 and the title is left blank in the chart listings.
  • In June, the Sex Pistols rent a boat to take them down the Thames during Queen Elizabeth II's Silver Jubilee anniversary celebration. The police force the boat to dock and several Pistols fans are arrested and injured in the meleé. Among those arrested are Pistols manager Malcolm McLaren, Vivienne Westwood, artist Jamie Reid, and Bromley Contingent members Tracie O'Keefe and Debbie Juvenile.
  • The Boomtown Rats appear on Top of the Pops. The first punk/new wave band to appear,
  • Roxy club deejay Don Letts begins filming The Punk Rock Movie, taking video footage of the London punk scene and editing it into a documentary.
  • On October 28, the Sex Pistols' album Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols is released by Virgin Records and despite being banned by most of Britain's record shops, reaches number one on the British charts.
  • In December, Elvis Costello becomes banned from Saturday Night Live and NBC, when Elvis was pressured by the studio to play his single, "Less Than Zero", in response to this, he plays his anti-media anthem, "Radio Radio".