Punk rock's first generation is honoured

Leather jackets and mohawk hair cuts mixed with tuxedos as the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame opened its doors to honour punk rock’s first generation, along with Tom Petty, former teen idol Brenda Lee and Shaft maestro Isaac Hayes.

The Ramones and Talking Heads, whose careers germinated during the mid-1970s in the Manhattan dive bar CBGB’s, were considerably more uptown at the Waldorf-Astoria for the induction ceremony last night.