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Belfast punks Stiff Little Fingers.

Photograph: Virginia Turbett/Redferns

For Belfast teenagers,

punk meant far more than just mohicans and safety pins

The music and clothes united Belfast’s youth in the 1970s.

Here an Observer writer recalls its power to cross the divide

– and prepares to pogo with fans old and young

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Last modified on Sat 27 Jul 2019    23.08 BST

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/jul/27/
mohicans-zipped-trousers-zimmer-frames-punk-keeps-rocking

Stiff Little Fingers    Northern Ireland,  UK

formed in 1977

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Stiff_Little_Fingers

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/jul/27/
mohicans-zipped-trousers-zimmer-frames-punk-keeps-rocking

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/aug/25/
ub40-stiff-little-fingers-yes-bands-that-split-in-half

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2007/mar/11/
uk.northernireland

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