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Punk
music not only brought young, snotty, energetic youths to the forefront of
the music scene as never before seen. It also offered us unruly, noisy,
unsightly, creative women who formed groups, made a stand, printed words,
designed, instigated, and lived out the extremes of this new risqué
culture they called Punk Rock !
These
girls / women weren't seen as sex symbols with a curvy figure or a page 3
glamour girl. Though some oozed sex appeal in spades ! They were seen as
more rabid St Trinians vamps, out to holler a defiant yell from the
confines of controlled society.
A
new offensive was signed and sealed for the alleged weaker sex ! These
vixens turned out to be just as vicious and lewd as their groundbreaking
contemporaries. Out was the little bo-peeps in nice dresses and girl next
door image that pop music had so long cultivated and controlled. In came
the aggressive attitude, dreadful hairstyles, black eyeliner, ripped
fishnet stockings, bin liners, and a pallor any self respecting corpse
would die for.
Over
these pages is a celebration of these Punkettes who made the first
wave what it is today. Yeah these ladies from Hades became the forerunners
for a new independent Punk lineage .
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