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Two of the founders of the punk band the Germs were classmates at an alternative high school where they were allowed to create their own class. They created a class for themselves called Fruit Eating in which they would go to a market, eat fruit for an hour, then return to school.
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The French duo Daft Punk got their name from a negative review they received from MelodyMaker magazine for a trio they were in before. A journalist wrote that the band Darlin's music was "a daft punky thrash". They found it funny, creating one of the most influential music acts of 90s & 00s
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Peter Capaldi was the lead singer in a punk rock band called Dreamboys, whose drummer was future comedian Craig Ferguson.
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Punk band The Dead Kennedys were invited to perform at the Bay Area Music Awards to play their song "California Über Alles". Instead they wrote a new song "Pull My Strings" to make a mockery out of the event and mainstream music.
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In 1980, Punk Rock band Dead Kennedys was invited to play at an awards show to give the event "new wave credibility". Seconds into their set, they stopped to perform 'Pull My Strings', a song written specifically to take the piss out of the music execs in the room. They never played it again.
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The punk band Death. Originally a funk group, the three African American brothers moved to rock when they heard The Who. Their album “for the whole world to see” recorded in 1974, predates punk music that became popular later that decade, making them one of the first punk bands in the world.
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The band Chumbawamba, mainly known for their ubiquitous hit "Tubthumping", was actually a politically charged anarcho-punk band who once advised fans to steal their music out of chain stores.
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The Beastie Boys began as a hardcore punk band as a joke and mimicked their name after the Angry Samoans. They opened up for the Bad Brains and the Circle Jerks before shifting into a hip-hop sound
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Chumbawumba, known in the U.S. for the one-hit-wonder song Tubthumping, is an anarchist punk band with a long history of anti-fascist demonstrations and questionably-legal stunts, like smearing blood on a record label's building.
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The punk band Crass was able to spook both the MI6 and the US State Department by releasing a phony tape recording of Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher discussing using Europe as a nuclear battlefield front against the USSR.
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The band Daft Punk got it's name from a negative review dubbing their music in a previous band: "A daft punky thrash".
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Punk band Suicidal Tendencies were investigated by the FBI for their song "I shot the devil" as it openly talks about shooting Ronald Reagan
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The lead singer of punk band Offspring worked on his PhD in molecular biology while touring and recording music
Post-Punk band Public Image Ltd (led by former Sex Pistols singer Johnny Rotten) considered the idea of their second album being released in a sandpaper package that would effectively ruin the sleeve art of any records shelved next to it. - source
American pop-punk band Blink-182 had scheduled their 2016 album 'California' to be released on July 1st- the 182nd day of the year. Unfortunately for them, however, it was a leap year. - source
The 12th Doctor (Peter Capaldi) sang lead and played guitar in the 80s punk rock band Dreamboys. Their drummer was Late Late Show host Craig Ferguson.
In 1979 Italian punk band Skiantos brought a kitchen, a table, a TV and a fridge onstage at a music festival, boiled some spaghetti and then ate it, without playing anything. - source
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A Seatlle punk band The Gits had a lead singer who was murdered in the 90s. DNA found her murderer a decade later.
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Peter Dinklage used to front a punk band called Whizzy
Jello Biafra, best known as the lead singer of the punk rock band Dead Kennedy’s, ran for the Green Party’s presidential nomination in 2000. Some of his ideas included lowering the voting age to 5 and abolishing the military.
Norwegian punk band Turbonegro chose this name because it was considered more "consumer friendly" than their first choice... Nazipenis.
The lead singer of the punk band Bad Religion has degrees in biology and geology from UCLA, and a PhD in Zoology from Cornell. He is a frequent lecturer at UCLA
Abbey from NCIS was in a punk band called Lo-Ball
