“I don’t know the first line of U2’s With You or With Out You but I do know the opening

lyrics of ‘I Can’t Come’ by The Snivelling Shits.” Steve Lillywhite

His top ten punk songs:

Steve Lillywhite CBE is a six-time Grammy Award Winning Record Producer. He has been credited on over five hundred records, and having worked with musicians including U2, The Rolling Stones, Siouxsie And The Banshees, Johnny Thunders, The Pogues, Simple Minds, Morrissey and The Killers he has a pretty damn impressive resumé!

Without a doubt, Steve Lillywhite is one of the most acclaimed and successful producers in British music history, but today he has the hardest job of his career as he chooses his top ten punk songs!

10: THE SNIVELLING SHITS – I Can’t Come (I Can’t Come)
9: LEYTON BUZZARDS – Saturday Night (Beneath the Plastic Palm Trees) (Jellied Eels to Record Deals )
8: ULTRAVOX – Young Savage (Ha! Ha! Ha!)
7: THE ONLY ONES – Another Girl, Another Planet (The Only Ones)
6: NEW YORK DOLLS – Personality Crisis, (New York Dolls)
5: JOHNNY THUNDERS – You Can’t Put Your Arms Around a Memory (So Alone)
4: SEX PISTOLS – Anarchy in the U.K. (Never Mind The Bollocks)
3: RAMONES – Blitzkrieg Bop (Ramones)
2: SIOUXSIE AND THE BANSHEES – Hong Kong Garden (Once Upon a Time: The Singles)
1: THE RUTS – Babylon’s Burning (The Crack)