List of 1970s punk rock musicians

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This is a list of notable first wave punk rock musicians (1971–1979).

• 4 Skins
• 45 Grave
• 999

• Abrasive Wheels
• Adam & the Ants
• The Adicts
• Adolescents (band)
• The Adverts
• Agent Orange (band)
• Alex Harvey (musician)
• The Alley Cats (Los Angeles)
• Alternative TV
• Amazorblades
• Amebix
• Angelic Upstarts
• Angry Samoans
• Anti-Nowhere League
• Anti-Pasti
• Au Pairs
• The Avengers
• Art Attacks

• The B-52s
• Bad Brains
• Bags^[1]
• Big Balls and the Great White Idiot
• Big Boys
• Big in Japan
• Black Flag
• Black Randy and the Metrosquad
• Blitzkrieg Bop
• The Blockheads
• Blondie
• The Boomtown Rats
• The Boys
• Bush Tetras
• The Business
• Buzzcocks

• Catholic Discipline
• Cardiac Kidz
• Channel 3
• Charged GBH
• Chelsea
• The Cheifs
• Cherry Vanilla
• China White
• Christian Death
• Chrome
• Chron Gen
• Circle Jerks
• Circus Mort
• The Clash
• Cock Sparrer
• Cockney Rejects
• James Chance and the Contortions
• The Controllers
• The Cortinas
• The Cramps
• Crass
• Crime
• Crime & the City Solution

• The Damned
• Darby Crash
• The Dead Boys
• Dead Kennedys
• Death (protopunk band)
• Defunkt
• Descendents
• Desperate Bicycles
• Devo
• The Dickies
• The Dictators
• The Dils
• The Diodes
• Discharge
• Disorder
• DMZ
• DNA
• D.O.A.
• The Dogs
• Destroy All Monsters
• The Drones
• Ian Dury

• The East Coast Angels
• Eater
• Ebba Grön
• Eddie and the Hot Rods
• The Electric Eels
• Elvis Costello and the Attractions
• The Exploited
• Elton Motello

• The Fall
• Fang
• Fatal Microbes
• The Fast
• Fastbacks
• Fear
• The Feederz
• Flamin' Groovies
• The Flesh Eaters
• The Fleshtones
• The Flowers of Romance
• Flyboys
• Forgotten Rebels
• Flipper
• The Flys (UK band)
• The Freeze

• Gang of Four
• Generation X
• The Germs
• GG Allin
• The Go-Gos
• The Gun Club

• The Heartbreakers
• Hüsker Dü
• The Hollywood Squares

• Iggy Pop
• The Innocents

• The Jam
• Jayne County
• The Jerks
• Joan Jett
• Johnny Moped

• The Killjoys
• Kommunity FK
• KSMB
• The Kids (Belgian band)

• Leisure Class
• LiLiPUT
• London
• London SS
• The Lurkers
• The Last
• Lydia Lunch

• Magazine
• The Mau-Mau's
• MC5
• The Mekons
• The Mentally Ill
• The Members
• The Membranes
• Mentors
• Métal Urbain
• MDC
• Middle Class
• Milk 'N' Cookies
• Mink DeVille
• Minutemen
• Misfits
• Misspent Youth (band)
• Mission of Burma
• The Modern Lovers
• Jon Moss
• The Mutants

• Necros
• Negative Trend
• Neon Boys
• Neon Hearts
• Nervous Gender
• The New Order (band)
• New York Dolls
• Nina Hagen Band
• The Nipple Erectors
• The Now
• The Nosebleeds
• The Nuns
• Neo (British band)

• The Offs
• The Only Ones
• The Outsiders
• The Outcasts (Belfast band)

• The Pagans
• Patti Smith
• The Partisans
• Pere Ubu
• Penetration
• Peter and the Test Tube Babies
• The Plague
• Plasmatics
• Poison Idea
• Poison Girls
• The Police
• Pork Dukes
• The Prefects
• Public Image Ltd
• Punishment of Luxury
• Pure Hell
• The Punks
• Pylon

• ? and the Mysterians

• Radio Birdman
• Radio Stars
• Ramones^[2]
• The Reactionaries
• Really Red
• The Replacements
• The Rezillos
• Rhino 39
• Riff Regan
• Rikki and the Last Days of Earth
• Rocket from the Tombs
• The Ruts
• The Radiators from Space
• The Runaways

• The Saints
• Scars
• The Screamers
• Sex Pistols
• Sham 69
• The Shapes
• Shattered Faith
• The Shirts
• Siouxsie and the Banshees
• The Sillies
• Skids
• Skrewdriver
• The Skulls
• Slaughter & The Dogs
• The Slits
• Sniper
• Social Distortion
• Sonic's Rendezvous Band
• The Specials
• Special Duties
• The Spitfire Boys
• Spizzenergi
• Splodgenessabounds
• SS (Japanese band)
• Steve Bjorklund
• Stiff Little Fingers
• Stinky Toys
• The Stooges
• The Stranglers
• Subhumans (UK)
• Subhumans (Canada)
• Suburban Lawns
• Suburban Studs
• Subway Sect
• Suicide
• The Suicide Commandos
• Swell Maps

• T.S.O.L.
• The Table
• Teenage Head
• Teenage Jesus and the Jerks
• The Teen Idles
• Television
• Talking Heads
• Toy Dolls
• Toxic Reasons
• The Tubes
• Tubeway Army
• Tuff Darts
• Tuxedomoon

• U.K. Subs
• The Undertones
• Ultravox
• Urinals

• The Vandals
• The Varukers
• Venus and the Razorblades
• The Vibrators
• Vice Squad
• The Viletones
• Void
• (Richard Hell and) the Voidoids
• VOM

• Wayne County & the Electric Chairs
• The Weirdos
• Wipers
• Wire

• X (American band)
• X (Australia)
• XTC
• X-Ray Spex

• Zero Boys
• The Zeros (UK)
• The Zeros (US)
• Zolar X
• Zounds