Pauline Murray

Born in the small northeast England university town of Durham on March 8, 1958, Pauline Murray was exactly the right age and in exactly the right place to get caught up in the first flush of punk, circa 1976. Along with her hometown friends Neale Floyd (guitar), Robert Blamire (bass), Fred Purser (guitar and keyboards), and Gary Smallman (drums), Murray formed Penetration in early 1977, and by the end of the year, the group had signed with Virgin Records and released one of the great punk singles of the era, "Don't Dictate." The usual difficulties of being a young and inexperi...