The Clash

The Clash were greatly responsible for popularizing punk throughout the world along with the Ramones. Their watered-down form of the music helped with it also. If not for the Clash and the Ramones, punk would have remained a British underground movement and many forms of rock would never have come to exist. They were inducted their first year of eligibility, an obvious choice. The Clash had a major influence on later punk bands such as Rancid and Bad Religion as well as pop-punk band Green Day.