kipgs row belongs to punk rockers. what has it done for us? nothing. hasn t gotten me a job. there is no future for a kid now. there isn t. there was an indigenous anger and frustration that i have been drove a lot of punk on and got a lot of young people behind it. london calling through the far away town we ve been said to be a political group. yeah, they have said it. it s true. as chaps maybe we would be singing about living and kissing someone. the clash usually is the best of the lot. it doesn t sound like traditional punk but it doesn t sound like anybody but the clash either. london and i i live by the river i never felt so much punk was a wide umbrella and that wider scene included peep who were a lib more complex in
it reminds us of one part of a wider new york scene. you had people like patty smith. i m an artist. rock n roll is my heart. the new york dolls. the dead police. rock n roll anybody can play. richard hell. richard hell cut his own hair. ripping his clothes and safety pinning them together. the king of the punks. the safety pin thing is his. it s pretty clear he invented that. punk in the united states is a musical aberration. a statement of sorts about what music is and how it ought to be played. in england punk rock is not a musical statement, it is a social one. if punk has a home territory it s here on kings road in the middle of england, the same street that launched the miniskirts and look and mood of the swimming 60s. belongs to punk rockers. what s this done for us?
we hear in the top 40. they were part of a larger scene. you had people like patty smith. i m an artist. rock n roll is my art. richard held. i belong to the generation. richard hell was with ripping his clothes and safety pinning them together. king of the punks. the safety pin thing is his. pretty clear he invented that. punk in the united states is a musical aberration, a statement of sorts about what music is and how it ought to be played. in england, punk rock is not a musical statement. it is a social one. if punk has a home territory it is here on kings row in the middle of london them same street that launched the mini skirt and the look and mood of the swingin 60s. look belongs though punk rockers.
led to the second chechen war. that book has since been reissued in russian under the title how putin became president. and it actually became a best-seller. maybe that was part of it. in fact, it did not go to russia in order to reopen the question of the apartment bombings. i ve talked about that in my book. i have testified about it before congress. my goal in going there was to was to understand the whole sweep of russian history after the fall of the soviet union. nonetheless, we can t speculate as to what went on in the minds of the russian authorities. our nick robertson is joining us from moscow oh. and let s try to make sense of this, sort this out here. because we have seen russian president vladimir putin release prisoners who were critics of his. the punk rockers, pussy riot, and political foes and now this journalist writing critical articles of the government for
bombshell. charges are starting to be dropped in the cases of green peace activists who protested drilling in the arctic. why now? what is vladimir putin up to? the games in sochi are just six weeks away, and putin is under fire from many in the west for russia s anti-gay law. i think the olympics is too much of a simple answer. he likes to keep everybody on edge and guessing. reporter: putin, a former kgb officer is sending multiple messages. for the punk rockers, you may just be girls, but if you protest, you can be punished. for green peace, don t even think about trying to shut down russia s oil rigs.