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Stiff Little Fingers is a Punk rock act. Their sound grew out of Deep Purple, The Clash, Elvis Costello, Highway Star and Toy Dolls. Those roots explain a lot about how Stiff Little Fingers arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as The Undertones, Buzzcocks, Sham 69, The Jam and Dead Boys, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Green Day, The Mighty Mighty Bosstones, The Undertones, Blue Lines and Adolescents, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 28 connections around Stiff Little Fingers, reaching back through Deep Purple and forward to Green Day. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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Stiff Little Fingers connections
Stiff Little Fingers grew out of Deep Purple, The Clash, Elvis Costello and Highway Star, shares an orbit with The Undertones, Buzzcocks, Sham 69 and The Jam, went on to shape Green Day, The Mighty Mighty Bosstones, The Undertones and Blue Lines. 28 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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