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Originally Posted by chillrob
I love Bowie, and I like a lot of punk, but I don't see much of a connection there. I thought punk was trying to be the opposite of glam, which Bowie represented in the early 70s. By the time punk came out, he had moved on, but to playing soul and wearing suits. The closest to punk Bowie ever came would have probably been with Tin Machine, and that was 15 years late, and the visual aesthetic there was the opposite of punk.
I'd say Neil Young embraced punk more than maybe any other established 70s icon...he even name-checked Johnny Rotten.
Hmmm. I don't think punk was fighting against glam as much as it was fighting against everything. Neil Young's My My Hey Hey is definitely a reaction to punk, but I don't think it's an embracement of it as a lasting movement.