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June 27, 2025
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Viletones founder helped kick start a punk rock movement in Toronto

Source: theglobeandmail.com theglobeandmail.com
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Open this photo in gallery: Steven Leckie, founder of punk rock pioneers the Viletones, died on June 12 at 67.VIVA TSVETANOVA/Supplied On May 4, 1977, Toronto punk rock pioneers the Viletones played the Colonial Underground, a basement club on Yonge Street. Singer and group founder Steven Leckie had previously typed up a manifesto criticizing the city’s rock music elite as being antiquated. “The war must start,” wrote the 19-year-old who controversially called himself Nazi Dog. “The new order is the Viletones.” Wearing a sneer, black eyeliner, and gaffer’s tape around his bare torso, Mr. Leckie sang Heinrich Himmler Was My...
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