And 18 years after their quick flameout, the original Sex Pistols are on the road again, playing to far more listeners than ever heard them in the 1970's. The Ramones are gathering encomiums on a farewell tour. The punk poets who made New York the movement's core have re-emerged: Patti Smith with an album, book and tour, Richard Hell with a book. At the same time, the 20-year nostalgia gap between pop culture events and their fond revival has rolled around to the mid-1970's, when punk reached critical mass as a concept, style and self-conscious sect. Nirvana and Green Day have sold millions of records, showing that an urban underground movement has turned into suburban party music. In the 1990's, suddenly everybody wants a piece of punk rock.
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