Editing Rocket to Russia (section)

== Background ==
In the summer of 1977, the single "Sheena Is a Punk Rocker" was released shortly after the release of the band's second album, ''[[Leave Home]]''. This period was extremely significant to the punk rock genre, as it was the initial wave of New York City's underground punk bands receiving recording contracts. New York-based clubs [[CBGB]] and [[Max's Kansas City]] began to see bigger audiences crowd in to hear these bands.<ref name="m 107" /><ref name="m 108" /> Punk fans commonly believed that this musical style would soon top the market, to which author Tom Carson explains: "To be in New York that summer was to have some sense of what it might have been like to live in [[San Francisco]] in 1966 or '67, or in London when the [[Beatles]] and the [[Rolling Stones|[Rolling] Stones]] first hit."<ref name="m 107" />