FWIW, as a historian of subcultures and punk, when I originally saw this clip, I thought it was very tame compared to the later punk panic that happened in the US. British culture was already in full punk panic mode, but the American response in 1978 was generally dismissive (sarcastic). It becomes much of a bigger panic later in the 80s (anti-punk TV, ignoring punk on the radio, etc).
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