The UK punk scene of the late 1970s introduced bands that glorified their working-class heritage: Sham 69 had a hit song " The Cockney Kids are Innocent ".

* The Enemy ( UK punk band ), a 1980s punk band from Derby, England

The first and perhaps still best known UK ' punk zine ' was Sniffin ' Glue, produced by Deptford punk fan Mark Perry.

There are many smaller fanzines in existence throughout the UK that focus on punk.

Asian Dub Foundation are not huge mainstream stars, but their politically charged rap and punk rock influenced sound has a multi-racial audience in their native UK.

* The Monks ( UK band ), a 1970s punk band

In July, the Ramones crossed the Atlantic for two London shows that helped spark the nascent UK punk scene and affected its musical style —" instantly nearly every band speeded up ".

In October, The Damned became the first UK punk rock band to release a single, the romance-themed " New Rose ".

While punk rock remained largely an underground phenomenon in North America, Australia, and the new spots where it was emerging, in the UK it briefly became a major sensation.

In February 1977, the first album by a British punk band appeared: Damned Damned Damned ( by the Damned ) reached number thirty-six on the UK chart.

If the Sex Pistols ' breakup the previous year had marked the end of the original UK punk scene and its promise of cultural transformation, for many the death of Vicious signified that it had been doomed from the start.

During 1976 – 77, in the midst of the original UK punk movement, bands emerged such as Manchester's Joy Division, The Fall, and Magazine, Leeds ' Gang of Four, and London's The Raincoats that became central post-punk figures.

* Punk 77 history of early UK punk

The New Wave of British Heavy Metal influenced the UK 82 style of bands like Discharge, and hardcore punk was a primary influence on thrash metal bands such as Metallica and Slayer.

Scoring some 23 UK top 40 singles and 17 UK top 40 albums to date in a career spanning four decades, the Stranglers are the longest-surviving and most " continuously successful " band to have originated in the UK punk scene of the mid to late 1970s.

While their aggressive, no-compromise attitude identified them as one of the instigators of the UK punk rock scene that followed, their idiosyncratic approach rarely followed any single musical genre and the group went on to explore a variety of musical styles, from New Wave, art rock and gothic rock through to the sophisticated pop of some of their 1980s output.

UK punk rock band The Cribs cite The Replacements as a key influence, and covered " Bastards of Young " on the B-Side to their " I'm a Realist " single.

Inspired by the burgeoning UK punk scene, Wire are often cited as one of the more important rock groups of the 1970s and 1980s.

* April 8 – The punk band The Clash's debut album The Clash is released in the UK on CBS Records.

* Paul Simon ( UK musician ), British punk rock and New Wave drummer from Yorkshire

* The Passage ( band ), a punk rock band from the UK

* Lit as the past tense of light is more common than lighted in the UK ; American English uses lit to mean " set afire " / " kindled " / " made to emit light " but lighted to mean " cast light upon " ( e. g., " The stagehand lighted the set and then lit a cigarette .").

The use of full stops / periods after most abbreviations can also be found in the UK, although publications generally tend to eschew the use of American punctuation.

This is mostly a matter of terminology, and US Asatru may be equated with UK Odinism for practical purposes, as is evident in the short-lived International Asatru-Odinic Alliance of folkish Asatru / Odinist groups.

For example the United States uses NTSC-M, the UK uses PAL-I, France uses SECAM-L, much of Western Europe and Australia uses PAL-B / G, most of Eastern Europe uses PAL-D / K or SECAM-D / K and so on.

The Paige / Dickson duet " I Know Him So Well " became a major UK # 1 hit, and Murray Head's " One Night in Bangkok " gave Andersson / Ulvaeus a US # 3 hit.

* Try Caving Information for anyone interested in trying caving / potholing in the UK.

Pöllauberg / Austria, Hainault / UK, Atascadero / US, pages 33 – 46.

Some crochet symbols, abbreviations, and US / UK terms

The differences are usually referred to as UK / US or British / American.

A number of licensed versions were released in Europe, including the Luxor Video Entertainment System in Scandinavia ( Sweden ), Adman Grandstand in the UK, and the Saba Videoplay, Nordmende Teleplay and ITT Tele-Match Processor, from Germany and also Dumont Videoplay and Barco Challenger from the Barco / Dumont company in Italy and Belgium.

This is equivalent to the Bachelor of Dental Surgery / Baccalaureus Dentalis Chirurgiae ( BDS, BDent, BChD, BDSc ) that is awarded in the UK and British Commonwealth countries.

To accomplish the UK / US mutual defense strategy, in November 1965, the UK purchased the Chagos Archipelago, which includes Diego Garcia, from the then self-governing colony of Mauritius for £ 3 million to create the British Indian Ocean Territory ( BIOT ), with the intent of ultimately closing the plantations to provide the uninhabited British territory from which the US would conduct its military activities in the region.

All the inhabitants of Diego Garcia were involuntarily relocated to other islands in the Chagos Archipelago or to Mauritius or Seychelles by 1971 to satisfy the requirements of a UK / US Exchange of Notes signed in 1966 to depopulate the island when the US constructed a base upon it.

A broad range of peripherals exist for the Dragon 32 / 64, and on top of this there are add-ons such as the Dragon's Claw which give the Dragons access to the BBC Micro's large range of accessories ( a particularly important factor in the UK home market ).

Bowie's second album, Space Oddity, followed in November ; originally issued in the UK as David Bowie, it caused some confusion with its predecessor of the same name, and the early US release was instead titled Man of Words / Man of Music.

Digimon Frontier ( the fourth series / season ) never aired in the UK as the shows ( then ) provider Jetix took it off the air, which shortly after, Jetix ended.

As of 2011, Digimon Data Squad ( the fifth series / season ) recently began airing in the UK on Kix ( the shows sole provider ).

The duo had another UK Top 30 hit in September with " Stop This Crazy Thing " which featured reggae vocalist Junior Reid.

The UK hip-hop scene tended to sample more deeply from Jamaican influences, due to the larger Caribbean ancestry of the British black population, and the existing mass British popularity of reggae, dancehall and dub in the 1980s.

Another related off-shoot is the UK travelling crusty scene, with bands such as Back To The Planet and Radical Dance Faction playing reggae / dance-tinged punk.

John Hassell, aided by his wife Felicity, cut reggae dub-plates with such finesse and understanding that the studio ’ s output was to feed Sound Systems throughout the UK.

The following year, Camembert Electrique was given a belated UK release, priced at 59p which was the price of a typical single, a promotional gimmick Virgin had done before in 1973 on an album by Faust, and would do again for a reggae compilation in 1976.

He became a bigger star in the UK than in Jamaica, his self-produced " Hard Time Pressure " being a major UK reggae hit in 1980, leading Minott to relocate to the UK, where he became a focus for UK reggae.

The more experimental releases of UK garage producers contributed to early dubstep, and sought to incorporate elements of dub reggae into the South London-based 2-step subgenre.

Although these alienated much of their roots reggae following, Brutal was nominated for a Grammy and " The Great Train Robbery " gave them their second UK hit single, reaching number 62.

Two Sevens Clash meanwhile had become a big seller in the United Kingdom, popular with punk rock fans as well as reggae fans and boosted by the support of John Peel on his BBC Radio 1 show, and reached number 60 on the UK Albums Chart in April 1978.

Dread had 11 UK chart hits in the 1970s, which was more than any other reggae artist ( including Bob Marley ).

The former was originally recorded by Tina Turner on the b-side of a single she released which went on to become a UK No. 1 hit for the reggae band Aswad.

Nash's biggest hits were the early reggae ( rocksteady ) tunes " Hold Me Tight " ( a # 5 hit in the US and the UK, the tune used more than a year earlier in Score commercials ) and " Stir It Up ", the latter written by Bob Marley prior to Marley's international success.

Many of these Jamaican-influenced UK bands ( such as UB40 ) adopted pop styles to appeal to mainstream audiences, but some UK reggae bands ( such as Steel Pulse ) played songs with more confrontational socio-political lyrics.

The reggae subgenre lovers rock originated in the UK in the 1970s, and the Louisa Marks song " Caught You in a Lie " helped popularise the genre.

The more reggae based music of UB40 allowed them to continue to chart in to the twentieth century, enjoying four number ones in the UK, the last of these in 1994.

They were distinctly different from Jamaican reggae acts, in that they wrote songs that dealt with the issues surrounding the experiences of black youths growing-up in the UK ; such as " Three Babylon " and " It's Not Our Wish ", and the powerful jazz-influenced instrumental " Warrior Charge ".

They followed this up with UK # 11 hit " Give A Little Love ", and a reggae flavoured rendition of " Best of My Love ", first popularized and written by The Eagles.