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Conflict are a British-based anarchist organisation primarily directed by Colin Jerwood, mainly known for their musical statements. Conflict were formed in 1980, with an isolated approach to other sympathetic groups and individuals which contributed to their inactivity during the later 1990s. However, in 2000 Conflict once more became active and started releasing records again with lyrics which promote peaceful ideals of social change - opposing war, violence, corruption, corporate control of the media, globalisation and the exploitation of both people and animals - in a very rowdy style of punk rock music.
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The Damned were are a British punk rock band. They started life in 1975 as 'The London SS' with Mick Jones, Tony James and Brian James under the management of Bernie Rhodes. Chris Millar joined during the winter of 1975 as a drummer and was christened 'Rat Scabies' by Brian James. The London SS folded as Bernie Rhodes and Mick Jones formed the Clash and the remaining band members met Dave Vanian and Ray Burns who had worked with Chris Millar cleaning toilets. The Damned were born and played their first concert at the 100 club supporting the Sex Pistols in 1976.
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Chris Stein was lead guitarist with the 70's punk rock band Blondie.
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James Destri played keyboards with the 70's punk rock band Blondie.
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John Lydon (aka Johnny Rotten) was the revolutionary lead singer and chief protagonist with the punk rock group the Sex Pistols, and then after they split up with Public Image Ltd.
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John Ritchie (Sid Vicious) was an English musician. He was born in 1957 at London and died in 1979 of a heroin overdose. As Sid Vicious he joined the punk rock band the 'Sex Pistols' as bass guitarist when Glen Matlock left the band, and immediately became a youth icon.
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Marion Elliot (Poly Styrene) is an English songwriter and musician. She was the driving force behind and founder of the 1970's punk rock band X-Ray Spex which disbanded in 1979 after releasing a single album, only to reform in 1991 playing a surprise sell-out concert at London's Brixton Academy venue and release a second album in 1995.
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Poly Styrene is the stage name of British punk rock musician Marion Elliot.
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A mohican is a hairstyle originating with one particular family group of Omahas of the American plains who cut their children's hair in a style symbolising the back hair of a plains buffalo as it stood against the skyline. The mohican hair cut properly comprises just an erect ridge of hair running from the nape of the neck to the forehead. The English name 'mohican' was given to the distinctive hairstyle displayed by the Indians in the popular 1971 BBC television mini series 'The Last of the Mohicans' based upon James Fenimore Cooper's novel, and the style was adopted by some followers of the Punk rock movement from about 1978 onwards. Really it should be called an 'Omaha'.
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In music, a cacophony is a combination of discordant sounds. It was a style very popular during the punk rock era of the 1970s as a reaction to the long drawn-out, rather self-congratulatory style of popular music which had become prevalent.
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