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June 1977 saw the release of another charting punk album: The Vibrators ' Pure Mania.

In July, the Sex Pistols ' third single, " Pretty Vacant ", reached number six and The Saints had a top-forty hit with " This Perfect Day ".

Recently arrived from Australia, the band was now considered insufficiently " cool " to qualify as punk by much of the British media, though they had been playing a similar brand of music for years.

In August, The Adverts entered the top twenty with " Gary Gilmore's Eyes ".

As punk became a broad-based national phenomenon in the summer of 1977, punk musicians and fans were increasingly subject to violent assaults by Teddy boys, football yobbos, and others.

A Ted-aligned band recorded " The Punk Bashing Boogie ".