In suburbia you’re given the impression that nothing culturally belongs to you, that you are in this wasteland. I think most people who have an iota of curiosity about them develop a passion to escape, to get away from our desperation and exhaustion with the blandness of where we grew up and try and find who one is and find some kind of roots.
— David Bowie, opening an essay on the progenitors of punk rock in Robert Palmer’s Blues and Chaos.






