Punk Rock ‘happened’ because of several things colliding at the same time. The youth of the day were creative and challenging the status quo, asking questions that previous politer generations hadn’t asked. We were curious, not accepting the ‘blah blah’ answers of the grey-suited politicians as they led the world into a dark and dismal decline.

Back then, the UK was described as the ‘sick man of Europe’ which was especially difficult to comprehend when our parents and grandparents had fought so...