Punk is a music genre that emerged in the mid-1970s. I researched rock music for my project design, I just remember the punk hairstyle, black leather and the poster of “God save the Queen”.
The Punk Culture
The punk culture is centered on a loud, aggressive genre of rock music called punk rock, usually played by bands consisting of a vocalist, one or two electric guitarists, an electric bassist and a drummer.
There can’t be much left to say about the music, clothing, media outrage, and legendary gigs, but the graphic expression of punk has received less critical attention. The punk design was stronger impressive, paper crack, compare colour and simple headline.
Maintaining the ideology that “anyone can do it,” the young punks of the time began transforming the music scene from polished and produced to something fast and aggressive. “God save the Queen” – poster design was a great example.
As singer John ‘Johnny Rotten’ Lydon said: “You don’t write ‘God Save The Queen’ because you hate the English race. You write a song like that because you love them, and you’re fed up with them being mistreated.”
Its energy and sense of dissatisfaction sum up perfectly what it felt like to be young and alienated in 1977. It also renewed the sense of ‘anyone can do this’ to that generation in much the same way that Skiffle had done more than a decade before.