Punk, punks - youth subculture that emerged in the late 1960s - early 1970s in the UK, Canada and Australia, which are the characteristic features of a critical attitude to society and politics.
The legendary American band Ramones was the first musical group that played punk rock. The first British punk band were Sex Pistols. After the occurrence of these and other groups punk spread around the world (from the 1980s in the USSR). In Russia, are the outstanding representatives of the Siberian punk bands (the most famous - "Grajdanskaya oborona", which fans into separate poddvizhenie - punk letovtsy, after the founder of the team Yegor Letov). Punk was a response to the crisis of the hippie movement and its bias in mysticism, rock music of the time, which departed from the energy and rhythm of traditional rock 'n' roll, as well as the difficult situation for young people in the labor market.
Pankow ideology is quite close to hippie ideology in all that relates to neglect material values, however, if the idea of a hippie expressed as "what money, peace and so infinitely perfect," then Pankow rather it is "the world is still shit and nothing can't help him ".Unlike the hippie punks pretty aggressive political preferences are considered anarchists.
Many punks dye their hair in bright unnatural colors, nachёsyvayut and fix them with lacquer, brilliantine, gel or beer, so they stood erect. In the 1980s, have become fashionable punk hairstyle "Mohawk". Wear ripped jeans tucked into boots or heavy podvёrnutye under heavy boots  and sneakers. Some pre-soaked in a solution of bleach jeans, so they went red stains. Manner of wearing sneakers beginning group Ramones, and this very style they adopted from Mexican punks.Jacket, leather jackets - has been picked up as a rock 'n' roll attribute from the 1950s, when the motorcycle and rock and roll were inseparable components. The first wave of punk tends to return to rock music that deliberate cockiness and drive, which eventually took away the mass commercialization of music.