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Plug and play: Anarchy in the UK playlist

A playlist with Professor Matthew Worley's selection of songs from a range of early British punk bands.
Photo of Poly Styrene on stage
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We’ve made a playlist of songs you really ought to know!

We have included a list of the songs in the playlists in the PDF in the downloads section at the bottom of this Step in case you wish to use your preferred audio player to listen to them and you can find the lyrics to most of the songs mentioned in this course at PLyrics.

Which band(s) did you see play live, or which do you wish you’d had a chance to see live?

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Anarchy in the UK: A History of Punk from 1976-78

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