Grunge?bands of 1960s and so-called pub-rock ensembles were labelled processors of the UK punk-rock. All these bands together with development of punk serve as a certain reaction on distribution of the stadium rock.
The pub-rock was a mid-1970s musical movement, increasingly, centred in London. Pub Rock was very much about live performances in small pubs and clubs. The trend was popularized by the bands, including the Brinsley Schwarz, the Bees Make Honey, the Ducks Deluxe, the Ace, the Kilburn and the Kokomo. The style appears to amalgamate tones of rhythm and blues, rockabilly and simply acoustics. Pub-rock bands aimed at conservation of old music styles, whereas punk bands employed themes, so much admired by their parents in early youth, mimicking it with negative aesthetics.
The trend is rumoured to be introduced by English impresario Malcolm McLaren, who was engaged in fashion at that time and owned a clothing shop Let It Rock in London. In 1974 he travelled to New York on a business trip and accidentally met members of the New York Dolls band, convincing them he could do a better job of managing and promoting them. The activity required a long stay in the US. After finally returning to the UK Malcolm McLaren decided to change his shop from the one, which sold 1950s cloths to the one which sold bondage and fetish clothes. Let it Rock was renamed for Sex and began attracting many of London's disenfranchised youth, who were captured by rebellion nature of the shop.
Being surrounded by stylish young people, Malcolm McLaren began to manage the Strand band, later on renamed for the Sex Pistols ? the short existing, however, potent UK band. It comprised Steve Jones(vocal), Paul Cook(drums), Glen Matlock(bass) and frontman John Rotten, being nicknamed so for poor condition of his teeth. He attracted McLaren's attention by his ugly appearance. His pale face was completely covered with pimples, which, however, added to his punk image and made him popular idol of the punk fan-base.
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