List of musicians in the first wave of punk music

This is a list of notable early punk rock musicians (1970s-1980).

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A

*Abrasive Wheels
*Adam and the Ants
*The Adicts
*The Adolescents
*The Adverts
*Alternative TV
*Amazorblades
*Amebix
*Angelic Upstarts
*Anti-Nowhere League
*Anti-Pasti
*Angry Samoans
*Au Pairs
*The Avengers

B

*Bad Brains
*The Bags
*Big Balls and the Great White Idiot
*Big Black
*Big in Japan
*Bl'ast
*Black Flag
*Blitz
*Blondie
*Boomtown Rats
*The Boys
*The Buzzcocks

C

*Catholic Discipline
*Channel 3
*Chaos U.K.
*Charged G.B.H.
*Chelsea
*Cherry Vanilla
*Circle Jerks
*The Clash
*Cock Sparrer
*The Cortinas
*The Cramps
*Crass
*The Cunts

D

*The Damned
*The Dead Boys
*Dead Kennedys
*Dead Milkmen
*Descendents
*Desperate Bicycles
*D.I.
*The Dicks
*The Dictators
*The Dils
*The Diodes
*Discharge
*Disorder
*DMZ
*D.O.A.
*Destroy All Monsters
*The Drones

E-F

*The East Coast Angels
*Eater
*Ebba Grön
*Eddie And The Hot Rods
*The Exploited
*The Fall
*Fang
*Fatal Microbes
*Fear
*The Feederz
*The Flesheaters
*The Flowers of Romance
*Forgotten Rebels
*Fuss

G-H

*G.G. Allin
*Generation X
*The Germs
*The Heartbreakers
*Hüsker Dü
*The Hollywood Squares

I-J

*Iggy Pop
*The Jam
*The Jerks
*J.F.A.
*Johnny Moped

K-L

*Legal Weapon
*LiLiPUT
*London
*London SS
*The Lurkers

M

*Magazine
*The Mekons
*The Members
*The Membranes
*Métal Urbain
*Minor Threat
*Minutemen
*Misfits
*Mission of Burma
*Jon Moss
*The Mutants

N-O

*Nervous Gender
*Nina Hagen Band
*The Nipple Erectors
*The Now
*The Only Ones
*The Outsiders

P

*The Pagans
*The Partisans
*Patti Smith
*Penetration
*Peter And The Test Tube Babies
*The Plague
*Plasmatics
*Poison Idea
*Poison Girls
*The Prefects
*Public Image Limited

R

*Radio Birdman
*Radio Stars
*The Ramones
*Reagan Youth
*The Rezillos
*Riff Regan
*Rikki and the Last Days on Earth
*Riot/Clone
*The Ruts
*The Radiators From Space

*The Saints
*Scars
*The Screamers
*Sex Pistols
*Sham 69
*Siouxsie & the Banshees
*The Sillies
*The Skids
*Skrewdriver
*The Skulls
*Slaughter & The Dogs
*The Slits
*Social Distortion
*Special Duties
*The Spitfire Boys
*Spizz Energi
*Splodgenessabounds
*Stagebeast
*Steve Bjorklund
*Stiff Little Fingers
*Stinky Toys
*The Stranglers
*Subhumans
*Suburban Studs
*Subway Sect
*Suicide
*The Suicide Commandos

T

*TSOL
*The Table
*Teenage Head
*Television
*The Television Personalities
*Tenpole Tudor
*Toy Dolls

U-V

*U.K. Subs
*The Undertones
*Urinals
*The Valves
*The Varukers
*The Vibrators
*Vice Squad
*The Viletones
*The Voidoids
*VOM
*Vomit Pigs

W-X

*Wayne County & the Electric Chairs
*The Weirdos
*Wipers
*Wire
*X (American band)
*X (Australia)
*XTC
*X-Ray Spex

Y-Z

*Zero Boys
*The Zeros (UK)
*The Zeros (US)
* The Zounds