Fanzines: the purest explosion of British punk

A British Library exhibition confirms that the fan-produced publications were one of the most creative responses to the anarchic music scene of the mid-70s

Among the artefacts to be displayed at Punk 1976-1978, a free exhibition opening this week at the British Library, are 14 fanzines. Titles such as Ripped & Torn, 48 Thrills and London’s Burning were produced by young men and women on a budget of nothing, the products of an intense but brief moment. Quintessentially ephemeral, they nevertheless speak to us four decades on.

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