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Legend has it that when drummer Darryl Read, guitarist Jesse Hector, and bassist Allen Butler were invited to record EMI studios on a wave of local success, they were graciously brought in on limousine, but after laying down a few tracks of their gnarly working class street-skum anthem "Factor Grime," were then less then graciously given the boot and had to ride the subway back home.
Jesse Hector was behind proto-punk band Hammersmith Gorillas, who released what is arguably the first punk 45, "You Really Got Me" (not a cover of the Kinks song!) in 1974.