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From Thursday 10 December 2015

Isle Of Wight Festival celebrates 40 years of punk

With 1976 seeing Sex Pistols sign to EMI, The Ramones release their debut album and the formation of The Damned, The Buzzcocks, The Clash, The Slits, X-Ray Spex, Black Flag and The Adverts, the year is to some seen as the dawn of punk. Taking that to heart, Isle

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