The Punkles

{{Short description|German punk band}}

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{{Infobox musical artist

| name = The Punkles

| image = Punkles rockfabrik.jpg

| caption = Live at Rockfabrik Ludwigsburg, 5 October 2005

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| background = group_or_band

| alias =

| origin = Hamburg, Germany

| genre = Punk

| occupation =

| years_active = 1998–2006

| label = Teichiku Records, Punkles Records

| associated_acts =

| current_members = Joey Lennon
Sid McCartney
Rat Harrison
Markey Starkey

| past_members = }}

The Punkles were a German band performing songs by The Beatles in punk style. They formed in 1998 in Hamburg, Germany, and was a side project of Prollhead!.

After a lot of touring around Europe they toured together with Beatallica in October 2005 and in Spring 2006.{{Cite web|url=http://www.yahoo.com/|archiveurl=https://archive.today/20120715224531/http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/59024/|url-status=dead|title=Yahoo|archivedate=15 July 2012|website=Yahoo|accessdate=30 September 2020}} Unlike Beatallica they performed the Beatles songs "as they are", singing the same lyrics and playing cover versions of the originals, just a "little" faster and with a punk feeling.

They were quite successful in Europe, as well as in Japan, where their best of CD The Punkles 1998-2003 (2003), and the following album, Pistol (2004), both entered the Top 50.[http://www.punkorder.com/show_det.php?det=787&vorher=/show_det.php] {{dead link|date=September 2020}} Their final album For Sale! was released in April 2006. They have not appeared in public since.