Please Kill Me: Voices from the Archives, Part 2 - The Punk Invasion. Two one-hour documentaries that explore an America that birthed the new order of today. The music of the Velvet Underground, Iggy and the Stooges, and The New York Dolls and others the others were meeting fierce resistance in the US. With no other options open to them, during the July 4th weekend of 1976, as America was celebrating it s bicentennial, the Ramones went to London and launched punk rock. In England, punk would explode and become a cultural force to be reckoned with.