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Chelsea is a Punk rock act. Their sound grew out of The Alarm, Topper Headon, London SS, Alternative TV and Throbbing Gristle. Those roots explain a lot about how Chelsea arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Sham 69, The Boys, Anti-Nowhere League, Peter and the Test Tube Babies and Vice Squad, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into U.S. Bombs and Generation X, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 24 connections around Chelsea, reaching back through The Alarm and forward to U.S. Bombs. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
Background
Chelsea are an English punk rock band which formed in 1976. Three of the four original band members went on to found Generation X. More than two decades after its release, the band's debut single, "Right to Work", was included in the Mojo list of the best punk rock singles of all time.
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Chelsea connections
Chelsea grew out of The Alarm, Topper Headon, London SS and Alternative TV, shares an orbit with Sham 69, The Boys, Anti-Nowhere League and Peter and the Test Tube Babies, went on to shape U.S. Bombs and Generation X. 24 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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