A slightly startling 45 years ago, on 18 February 1977, Stiff Records released the first UK punk album – Damned Damned Damned.

Recorded at Pathway Studios in Newington Green, and produced by Nick Lowe, it was the first album to be released on Stiff, with the catalogue number SEEZ 1.

On the same day came the release of the band’s second single, Neat Neat Neat.

It’s a song that epitomises the quintessential sound of punk – that steamrollering bassline by Captain Sensible, the ferocious drumming of Rat Scabies and the wild rock’n’roll guitar of Brian James, matched to the energetic vocals of Dave Vanian.

Nearly half a century on, while some songs of the era have faded in their appeal, it deserves a place in the pantheon of punk classics – something recognised by film maker Edgar Wright.

It’s the perfect soundtrack for the crash-bang-wallop of his film Baby Driver, which is everything I don’t normally like – an action movie with loads of bank robberies and men crashing cars and shooting at each other.

I loved it.