Paul Simonon of The Clash famously learned to play the bass guitar from scratch by practising note-for-note along to the Ramoones’ debut album.

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I’m not going to present a case to reappraise the underrated musical genius of Captain Sensible, but this bassline is iconic.

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I bloody loved The Cramps the moment I heard them. They had all the energy, lo-fi spirit and antisocial appeal of punk – channelled into rockabilly.

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When I first heard the adrenalin rush of those guitars at the start of Girl From Mars, I was instantly transported back to the first wave of punk in 1977.

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The Fall made their national TV debut on The Tube thanks to John Peel – five years after I first saw them play in London.

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The Controllers enjoyed a brief moment in the first wave of LA punk bands, including this love song for an amputee.

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The Bobby Lees come from Woodstock, so you’d expect their sound to be all peace and love wouldn’t you? Prepare to be plelasantly surprised.

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Stiv Bators, the Dead Boys singer, was probably the nearest thing American punk had to Johnny Rotten.

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Narcosis were short-lived pioneers of the underground Peruvian punk scene in Lima in the early 1980s.

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