Ya, in their book Please Kill Me, Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain toe the line that McNeil & co. coined the term for their Punk magazine, which would have pre-dated any usage in the UK, but then I found out Bangs and the Creem squad were using it before then (but how regularly I don’t know) and they weren’t the first, either. It was probably the Punk fanzine that made the term a meme in the NY scene, though, and then the UK scene got it from them and made punk a worldwide meme. Malclom Maclaren is the probable vector for that transmission. Complicated.
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