Punk pitted parents against teens – but its spirit lives on

till 4am!” Rosie has lots of great memories of those days.

“I was going out with my partner Ross at the time. His dad was loaded. They stayed up in posh Thorntonhall.

“He really stood out, with his bondage trousers and sticky- up hair. He used to come and pick me up in a big, posh Mercedes. My neighbours were reminiscing the other day – the outfits we used to wear and how they used to look out for us,” she says.

Punk’s impact was all the more shocking as it hit home in the Queen’s Silver Jubilee year.

Punk changed personality.

“I was a quiet, unconfident girl. Then it was like I went into a Tardis and came out a punk!”

So how did her respectable mum and dad react to the transformation in their previously quiet daughter?

“When I announced I was going to London instead of going to university, Dad said I wasn’t. I thought, just watch me! Then I pinched his tuxedo, changed one of the buttons for a sparkly brooch I got

her at Paddy’s Market and wore it non-stop,” she says.

“Dad’s passed away now, but I’ve kept that tuxedo with its sparkly brooch and always will. Dad was a fantastic artist and a beautiful writer and he used to do gig posters, too.”

Although she remembers the era as being great fun, Rosie had hopes the whole scene was going to change society.

“The country was in a real state of disrepair and youth unemployment was really high at the t i m e,” she

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