The Who

The Who formed in 1964 in good old Shepherd's Bush, and played a fair part in the British Invasion. Once the whole Beatles craze died down, The Who started getting more experimenting, and were mostly described as pop art. Guitarist Pete Townshend started a trend where the band would smash the shit out of everything after playing their definitive hit "My Generation", which screams punk as fuck.
They were originally a mod group. Mods were a subculture where young naughty short-haired men rebelled....which makes it technically a precursor to the 70s first wave British punk.
So the Who technically did influence punk rock, although this is rarely acknowledged because The Who are not as mentioned much as a band like Led Zeppelin.
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