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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The Dead Kennedys made an indelible mark on punk rock with their debut single California Über Alles in the summer of 1979.

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If he had never played another note after 1977, Fred Smith would still have had a place in music history as one quarter of the band who made Marquee Moon – my favourite album of all time.

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