“Punk is dead” is a phrase recalled from my early twenties and apparently dates from 1978. Furthermore, “Punk is Dead” is also the title of a song by the legendary anarchist punk band Crass.
This morning a variation on the phrase drifted into my Twitter feed, as shown by the photograph below.
For today’s younger people, about the age that I was when punk first emerged, the leading lights of punk rock such as The Clash, Sex Pistols and their contemporaries have probably been added to the likes of The Beatles, Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix and other more typical exponents of “Dad Rock“.
Additional research has revealed that “Punk is Dad” is the title of a song by Berlin-based band Ohrbooten.
Could the graffito be cheap promotion for Ohrbooten’s offering – or is it just bad spelling? 🙂