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7708: 1851: 1169: 51: 2170: 867:. Organised by McLaren (for whom the word "festival" had too much of a hippie connotation), the event was "considered the moment that was the catalyst for the years to come". Belying the common perception that punk bands couldn't play their instruments, contemporary music press reviews, later critical assessments of concert recordings, and testimonials by fellow musicians indicate that the Pistols had developed into a tight, ferocious live band. As Rotten tested out wild vocalisation styles, the instrumentalists experimented "with overload, feedback and distortion 8384: 1944: 1545: 1292: 889: 1135:." Although Matlock says he left voluntarily, Jones claimed in a contemporary interview that he was sacked because he "liked the Beatles", In 2005, Jones admitted that although Matlock was a good songwriter, he "didn't look like a Sex Pistol" In 1990, Matlock described the reason as his bitter relationship with Rotten, exacerbated—in Matlock's account—by Rotten's attitude "once he'd had his name in the papers". Jon Savage suggests that Rotten pushed Matlock out to demonstrate his power and autonomy from McLaren. 1226:. Afterwards, intoxicated, they went to the A&M offices where Vicious reportedly broke a toilet bowl and Rotten verbally abused members of the label's staff. A couple of days later, the Pistols got into a fight with another band at a club; one of Rotten's friends threatened a friend of A&M's English director; A&M broke their contract with the Pistols on 16 March. Although 25,000 copies of the "God Save the Queen" single had already been pressed, nearly all were destroyed. 614:
not firmly settled on until just before their first show in November 1975. McLaren later said the name derived "from the idea of a pistol, a pin-up, a young thing, a better-looking assassin". Not given to modesty, false or otherwise, he added: " launched the idea in the form of a band of kids who could be perceived as being bad." The group began writing original material: Rotten was the lyricist and Matlock the primary melody writer (though their first collaboration, "
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differently. Noting that "mage to the contrary, the Pistols were very serious about music", Creswell wrote that "essentially, the Sex Pistols reinforced what the garage bands of the '60s had demonstrated—you don't need technique to make rock & roll. In a time when music had been increasingly complicated and defanged, the Sex Pistols' generational shift caused a real revolution."
1773:... The myth had to be dynamited in some way. We had to make this film in a way to enrage the fans." In the film, McLaren claims to have created the band from scratch and engineered its notorious reputation; much of what structure the loose narrative has is based on McLaren's teaching a series of "lessons" to be learned from "an invention of mine they called the punk rock". 1063:("4-Letter Words Rock TV") followed suit. Thames Television suspended Grundy and the interview effectively ended his career. Steve Jones reflected; Grundy was the big dividing line in the Sex Pistols' story. Before it, we were all about the music, but from then on it was all about the media. In some ways it was our finest moment, but in others it was the beginning of the end 1285:. The event was conceived as a mockery of the Queen's river procession planned for two days later, but ended in chaos. Police launches forced the boat to dock, and constabulary surrounded the gangplanks at the pier. While the band members and their equipment were hustled down a side stairwell, McLaren, Westwood, and many of the band's entourage were arrested. 2136:
working class that was almost beyond the pale." Within a year of "Anarchy in the U.K.", that voice was being echoed widely: scores if not hundreds of punk bands had formed across the country—groups composed largely of working-class members or middle-class members who rejected their own class values and pursued solidarity with the working class.
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Sex Pistols were his personal, Situationist-style art project: "I decided to use people, just the way a sculptor uses clay." According to McLaren, they were something with which "to sell trousers" and a "carefully planned exercise to embezzle as much money as possible out of the music industry". Jon Savage characterises McLaren's core theme in
1074:, over from New York. The Damned were briefly part of the tour, before McLaren kicked them off. Media coverage was intense, and many of the concerts were cancelled by organisers or local authorities; of approximately twenty scheduled gigs, only about seven actually took place. Following a campaign in the south Wales press, a crowd including 1670:". The following year Lydon initiated legal proceedings against McLaren and the Pistols' management company, Glitterbest, which McLaren controlled. Among the claims were non-payment of royalties, improper usage of the title "Johnny Rotten", unfair contractual obligations and damages for "all the criminal activities that took place". 364:(1977) was a UK number one and is regarded as seminal in the development of punk rock. In January 1978, at the final gig of a difficult and media-hyped tour of the US, Rotten announced the band's break-up live on stage. Over the next few months, the three remaining members recorded songs for McLaren's film of the Sex Pistols' story, 1230: 709:, a friend of McLaren who took over the design of the band's visual imagery in the spring of 1976. His cut-up lettering—based on notes left by kidnappers or terrorists—were used to create the classic Sex Pistols logo and many subsequent designs for the band, although they were actually introduced by McLaren's friend 1891:. In November 2006, the Sex Pistols were inducted to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, but the band rejected the honour. According to Jones, "once you want to be put into a museum, Rock & Roll's over; it's not voted by fans, it's voted by people who induct you ... people who are already in it." 1707:
Hearings for Lydon's lawsuit began on 7 February 1979, five days after Vicious's death. Cook and Jones allied with McLaren, but as evidence mounted that their manager had spent virtually all of the band's revenue on his film project, they switched sides. On 14 February, the court put the film and its
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jukebox. According to Jones, "he came in with green hair. I thought he had a really interesting face. I liked his look. He had the 'I Hate Pink Floyd' T-shirt on...held together with safety pins... he was a real arsehole—but smart." Jones renamed Lydon as "Johnny Rotten" as a joke, apparently because
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Critic Bill Wyman writes that Lydon's "fierce intelligence and astonishing onstage charisma" were important catalysts, but ultimately finds the band's real meaning lies in McLaren's provocative media manipulations. While some of the Sex Pistols' public affronts were plotted by McLaren, Westwood, and
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The Sex Pistols were defined by ambitions that went beyond the musical—indeed, McLaren was at times openly contemptuous of the band's music and punk rock generally. "Christ, if people bought the records for the music, this thing would have died a death long ago", he said in 1977. He claimed that the
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another part on, leaving Sid's down low." Jones says that Vicious showed up for the "God Save the Queen" session, while Lydon remembers him being there during the recording of an unused version of "Submission". Two further singles were released from the Thomas sessions; "Pretty Vacant" on 1 July and
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signed the band on a two-year contract on 8 October 1976. The Pistols were soon in a studio recording a full-dress session with Dave Goodman. According to Matlock, "The idea was to get the spirit of the live performance. We were pressurized to make it faster and faster." The results were rejected by
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After considering band name options such as Le Bomb, Subterraneans, the Damned, Beyond, Teenage Novel, Kid Gladlove, and CrĂšme de la CrĂšme, they decided on Sex Pistols. Matlock said the band decided on the name while McLaren was in the United States before Rotten joined. Jon Savage says the name was
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nothing to do with us. The Jamie Reids and Malcolms were excited because we were the real thing. I suppose we were what they were dreaming of." According to Lydon, "If we had an aim, it was to force our own, working-class opinions into the mainstream, which was unheard of in pop music at the time."
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Their cultural influence is evident in other media. Reid's work for the band is regarded as among the most important graphic design of the 1970s and still influences the field in the 21st century. Aged twenty-one, Vicious was already a "t-shirt-selling icon". While the manner of his death signified
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The Pistols January 1978 US tour was initially scheduled for nine dates, but due to Vicious's drug use and the breakdown in the relationship between Lydon and McLaren was cut short after seven shows. It was delayed due to American authorities' reluctance to issue a visa to Jones, given his criminal
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had been used as a nickname for clergymen: "Clergymen are known to talk a good deal of rubbish and so the word later developed the meaning of nonsense." In the context of the album title, the term does in fact primarily signify "nonsense". Steve Jones off-handedly came up with the title as the band
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Attacks on punk fans rose and in mid-June, Rotten was assaulted by a knife-wielding gang outside Islington's Pegasus pub, causing tendon damage to his left arm. Reid and Cook were beaten up in other incidents; three days after the Pegasus assault, Rotten was attacked again. According to Cook, after
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on 23 April 1976. Although regarded as seminal to the growth of English punk rock, Lydon has repeatedly rejected that it influenced the Sex Pistols, claiming that they "were all long-haired and of no interest to me. I didn't like their image, what they stood for, or anything about them". On 11 May,
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about coming over to England to front the group. When those plans fell through, McLaren, Rhodes and the band began looking locally for a new member to assume the lead vocal duties. As described by Matlock, "Everyone had long hair back then, even the milkman, so what we used to do was if someone had
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may be taken as evidence for that position, Julien Temple has noted that the scene inspired by the Sex Pistols "wasn't your kind of two-up, two-down working class normal families, most of it. It was over the edge of the precipice in social terms. They were actually giving a voice to an area of the
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cover, "No Fun". At the end of the song, Rotten, kneeling on the stage, chanted an unambiguous declaration, "This is no fun. No fun. This is no fun—at all. No fun." As the final cymbal crash died away, Rotten addressed the audience directly—"Ah-ha-ha. Ever get the feeling you've been cheated? Good
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with her face obscured by cutout letters forming the song title and the band name. The single was eventually released on 27 May. Its lyrics–"God save the queen / the fascist regime..She ain't no human being / and there's no future / in England's dreaming"–lead to widespread outcry from the British
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of him against Steve and Paul, it would become him and Sid against Steve and Paul. He always thought of it in terms of opposing camps." According to Jones, "to Cookie and me, it just didn't make any sense to have someone who couldn't play a note trying to fill Glen's shoes, but it was never about
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Lydon dismissed McLaren's influence: "We made our own scandal just by being ourselves. Maybe it was that he knew he was redundant, so he overcompensated. All the talk about the French Situationists being associated with punk is bollocks. It's nonsense!" Cook agreed and said that "Situationism had
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According to the music journalist Ira Robbin, "the Pistols and ... McLaren challenged every aspect and precept of modern music-making, thereby inspiring countless groups to follow their cue onto stages around the world." Critic Toby Creswell locates the primary source of inspiration somewhat
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heavily reflects McLaren's vision. It is a fictionalised and partially animated retelling of the band's history and aftermath with McLaren in the lead role, Jones as second lead, and contributions from Vicious (including his memorable performance of "My Way") and Cook. It incorporates promotional
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Cook, Jones and Vicious did not play live together again after Rotten's departure. Over the next several months, McLaren arranged for recordings in Brazil (with Jones and Cook), Paris (with Vicious) and London; they and others stepped in as lead vocalists on later tracks. These recordings were to
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Being in the Pistols had a progressively destructive effect on Vicious. As Lydon observed, "Up to that time, Sid was absolutely childlike. Everything was fun and giggly. Suddenly he was a big rock star. Rock star status meant press, a good chance to be spotted in all the right places, adoration."
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was reporting that the band had "vomited and spat their way" to the flight. Despite categorical denials by the EMI representative who accompanied the group, the label, which was under political pressure, released the band from their contract. In one journalist's later description, the Pistols had
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The lyrics of "Anarchy in the U.K." linked punk to a newly politicised and nihilistic attitude, typified by phrases such as "I am an anti-Christ" and "Destroy!". The single's packaging and visual promotion also broke new ground. Reid and McLaren came up with the idea of selling the record in a
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would perform with Jones, Cook and Matlock, as the Sex Pistols, for two fundraiser concerts in England in August. A UK tour is scheduled for September 2024 with the group and tour billed as "Frank Carter and Paul Cook, Steve Jones, Glen Matlock of the Sex Pistols do Never Mind the Bollocks".
2187:... However, I've since found out that even Malcolm wasn't as aware of what he was up to as he has since made out." By his absence, Matlock demonstrated how crucial he was to the band's creativity: the band only wrote two songs in the eleven months between his departure and their break-up. 1999:. Their June 1976 concert at Manchester's Lesser Free Trade Hall became one of the most mythologised events in rock history. Many among the audience of about forty became leading figures in the punk and post-punk movements, including Pete Shelley and Howard Devoto, who organised the gig, 2412:
See, for instance, Temple's commentary: " was not planned at all. It was totally spontaneous. And as the band will tell you, Malcolm said, 'You've blown it. You've ruined everything I've worked for'" (Temple, Julien, "Commentary", 27:26–27:33); and Matlock's confirmation (Matlock, Glen,
1029:, and Rotten used the word "shit". Grundy—who later claimed to have been drunk—then attempted to flirt with Siouxsie Sioux, who replied that she had "always wanted to meet" him. Grundy responded, "Did you really? We'll meet afterwards, shall we?", prompting Jones to repeatedly swear. 527: 1538:, he spat blood at a woman who climbed onstage and punched him in the face. He was admitted to hospital later that night to treat various injuries. Offstage he is said to have kicked a photographer, attacked a security guard, and challenged one of his own bodyguards to a fight. 1185:
with a bicycle chain during a gig at the 100 Club. According to McLaren, "when Sid joined he couldn't play guitar but his craziness fitted into the structure of the band." "Everyone agreed he had the look," Lydon later recalled, but musical skill was another matter. "The first
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Rotten was suffering flu and coughing up blood, and he felt increasingly isolated from Cook and Jones and disgusted by Vicious. Jones later said that he and Cook "couldn't stand being around Johnny and Sid anymore. You couldn't turn round for a minute without Sid starting a
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Gimarc refers to sources claiming that the "My Way" recording involved no contact between Vicious and the Jones-Cook duo; Temple, however, says that Jones was flown over to Paris to join Vicious in the studio, and seems to indicate that he recorded his guitar part there
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The 1979 court ruling left many issues between Lydon and McLaren unresolved. Five years later, Lydon filed another action. Finally, on 16 January 1986, Lydon, Jones, Cook and the estate of Sid Vicious were awarded control of the band's heritage, including the rights to
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night"—before throwing down his microphone and walking offstage. He later observed, "I felt cheated, and I wasn't going on with it any longer; it was a ridiculous farce. Sid was completely out of his brains—just a waste of space. The whole thing was a joke at that point
1712:—no longer under McLaren's control, they were now to be administered as exploitable assets for addressing the band members' financial claims. McLaren was left with substantial personal debts and legal fees. McLaren went on to carry out a one-month consultancy for 1757:" (number three). Two more singles from the soundtrack were put out under the Pistols brand—Tudor-Pole, among others, singing "The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle" and a Rotten vocal from 1976, "(I'm Not Your) Steppin' Stone"; both fell just shy of the Top Twenty. 2126:
Toby Creswell argues that the Pistols message was "inchoate, to say the least. It was a general call to rebellion that falls apart at the slightest scrutiny." Critic Ian Birch, writing in 1981, called "stupid" the claim that the Sex Pistols "had any political
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The Pistols played their first gig outside Britain on 3 September, at the opening of the Chalet du Lac disco in Paris. The Bromley Contingent were in attendance and Siouxsie was harassed by locals due to her outfit with bare breasts. The following day, the
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After dates in the Netherlands, the band set out on a Never Mind the Bans tour of Britain in December 1977. Of eight scheduled dates, four were cancelled due to illness or political pressure. On Christmas Day, the Pistols played two shows at Ivanhoe's in
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Vicious moved to New York, where he attempted to launch a career as a solo artist with Spungen as his manager. In September 1978, backed by members of the New York Dolls, Vicious recorded songs eventually released on his posthumous 1979 live album
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radio and television and every independent radio station, making it, according to the music critic Alexis Petridis, the "most heavily censored record in British history". The song's social impact has been described by the musician and journalist
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Vicious was arrested after hurling a glass that shattered and blinded a girl in one eye at a Damned gig at the 100 Club Punk Special. He served time in a remand centre and the incident contributed to the 100 Club banning punk bands. He assaulted
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show. According to Cook, McLaren "didn't instigate ; that was always our own doing." Matlock said that at the point when he left the band, it was clear to him that McLaren "was in fact quite deliberately perpetrating that idea of us as his
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make up the musical soundtrack for the reconceived Pistols feature film project, directed by Temple, to which McLaren was now devoting himself. On 30 June, a single credited to the Sex Pistols was released: on one side, notorious criminal
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described it as "the most exciting rock & roll record of the Seventies". Some critics were disappointed that the album contained all four previously released singles, and dismissed it as little more than a "greatest hits" compilation.
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the Pistols began a four-week Tuesday night residency at the 100 Club. They devoted the rest of the month to touring small cities and towns in the north of England and recording demos in London with producer and recording artist
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The Pistols' behaviour as much as their music attracted national media attention. On 1 December 1976, the band, accompanied by members of the Bromley Contingent, repeatedly swore during an early evening live broadcast of
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T-shirt with the words ‘I Hate’ handwritten above the band's name and holes scratched through the Floyd members' eyes. Soon after, either Rhodes or McLaren asked Lydon to audition. During the session, Lydon improvised to
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study notes that "many styles of popular music, such as grunge, indie, thrash metal and even rap owe their foundations to the legacy of ground breaking punk bands—of which the Sex Pistols was the most prominent."
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The Pistols reunited for five performances in the UK in November 2007. In 2008, they undertook a series of European festival appearances, titled the Combine Harvester Tour. That same year, they released the DVD
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Cook and Jones continued to work through guest appearances and as session musicians. Two tracks they'd recorded together, "Black Leather" and "Here We Go Again", were released on the Japanese compilation
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celebrations. By Jubilee weekend, a week and a half after the record's release, it had sold more than 150,000 copies. On 7 June, McLaren chartered a boat to have the Sex Pistols perform while sailing the
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The original band members reunited in 1996 for the six-month Filthy Lucre tour, which included dates in Europe, North and South America, Australia and Japan. Their access to the archives associated with
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videos shot for "God Save the Queen" and "Pretty Vacant" and extensive documentary footage as well, much of it focusing on Rotten. In Temple's description, he and McLaren conceived it as a "very stylized
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and punks, which often led to violence. By that August the band were unable to publicise UK dates, forcing them to tour pseudonymously as the SPOTS (Sex Pistols on Tour Secretly) to avoid cancellation.
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band formed in London in 1975. Although their initial career lasted just two and a half years, they became one of the most culturally influential acts in popular music. The band initiated the
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The interview made the band a household name overnight in Britain and brought punk into the mainstream. They launched the UK Anarchy Tour, supported by the Clash and Johnny Thunders' band
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The line, which became known as a catchphrase of McLaren's, appears in the lyric of the title track (credited to Jones, Cook and Temple) (6:59–7:02); as a motto on a conveniently placed
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room she was sharing with Vicious, from a stab wound to her stomach. Police recovered drug paraphernalia from the scene and Vicious was arrested and charged with her murder. While on
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On 17 January the band travelled separately to Los Angeles. Vicious, in increasingly bad shape, was brought by a friend who then took him to New York; Vicious took a mixture of
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completely wordless, featureless black sleeve. The primary image associated with the single was Reid's "anarchy flag" poster: a ripped up and partly safety-pinned back together
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listed it at No. 2 in its 1987 "Top 100 Albums of the Last 20 Years". It has come to be recognised as among the most influential records in rock history. According to
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in San Francisco, a disillusioned Rotten introduced the band's encore saying, "You'll get one number and one number only 'cause I'm a lazy bastard." That one number was a
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and Association of Independent Radio Contractors banned its advertisements. Nonetheless, advance sales were sufficient to make it number one on the album chart.
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district, with the Buzzcocks and the Clash opening for the Pistols. Three days later, the band were in Manchester to tape their first television appearance, for
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entry claims that "their importance—both to the direction of contemporary music and more generally to pop culture—can hardly be overstated". The music critic
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was the most talented guitarist to audition, he was asked to join. However, Jones' playing had greatly improved, and New left a month after joining the band.
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company, others were evidently not—including what McLaren himself cites as the "pivotal moment that changed everything", the clash on the Bill Grundy
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term for a small ball, that the word appeared in place names without causing local communities erotic disturbance, and that in the nineteenth century
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and all the footage shot for it—more than 250 hours. That same year, the fictionalised film of Vicious's relationship with Spungen was released:
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The film was completed by Temple, who received sole credit for the script after McLaren had his name taken off the production. Released in 1980,
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Albiez, Sean (2006). "Print the Truth, Not the Legend. The Sex Pistols: Lesser Free Trade Hall, Manchester, 4 June 1976". In Inglis, Ian (ed.).
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performance aired. On 13 September, the Pistols began a tour of Britain. A week later, back in London, they headlined the opening night of the
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on guitar. According to Jones, both he and Cook played on instruments he had stolen. The band regularly hung out at two clothing shops on the
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was often screened at concert venues before the band took stage. Using media footage from the Thames incident, Temple created another short,
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the "God Save the Queen" single and the Grundy incident, the Pistols were public enemy number one, and there was a rivalry between gangs of
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Beginning in early 1977, Lydon, Jones and Cook began to record tracks for their debut album with producer Chris Thomas. Initially titled
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Although the programme was only broadcast in the London region, the ensuing media coverage occupied the tabloid newspapers for days. The
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Virgin Records store was threatened with prosecution for displaying "indecent printed matter". The case was thrown out when defending
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detox. He was released on bail on 1 February 1979. Later that night, following a small party to celebrate his release, he died of a
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For more on Lydon's apparently coincidental resemblance to Hell, see also Matlock. Also Matlock and Pirroni quotes in Robb, John,
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look. The shop then became a focal point of the early London punk rock scene, bringing together participants such as the future
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for many the inevitable failure of punk's social ambitions, it cemented his image as an archetype of doomed youth. British
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although, true to their image, they refused to attend the ceremony, with Rotten referring to the museum as "a piss stain".
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The Sex Pistols (Sid Vicious left, Steve Jones centre, and Johnny Rotten right) performing in Trondheim, Norway, July 1977
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occasionally played second guitar with the band but left acrimoniously when Lydon joined. An advertisement was placed in
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Savage says there are six Rotten vocals (p. 558); in fact, the various releases of the album all include seven or eight.
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The Saint Martins gig was followed by performances at colleges around London. The band's core early followers—including
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style velvet collared drape jacket, large pin-stripe pegs, a pin-collar Wemblex customised into an Anarchy shirt and
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Containing the track "Bodies"—in which Rotten says "fuck" six times—and "God Save the Queen", and featuring the word
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Reynolds, Simon (2007). "Ono, Eno, Arto: Nonmusicians and the Emergence of Concept Rock"". In Molon, Dominic (ed.).
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Vicious first performed with the Pistols at London's Notre Dame Hall on 28 March. That May, the Pistols signed with
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They directly inspired the style of many punk and post-punk bands, including the Clash, Siouxsie and the Banshees,
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On 3 June 2024, Cook, Jones, and Matlock announced two reunion shows at the Bush Hall in Shepherds Bush billed as "
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The Sex Pistols evolved from The Strand (sometimes known as the Swankers), formed in London in 1972 by teenagers
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and by nearly every independent radio station in Britain, making it the most censored record in British history.
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called them "unquestionably the most radical new rock band of the Seventies". Although not the first punk band,
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After leaving the Pistols, Rotten reverted to his birth name of Lydon and formed the influential post-punk band
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famously ran the headline "The Filth and the Fury!", and asked "Who are these punks?"; other papers such as the
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short hair we would stop them in the street and ask them if they fancied themselves as a singer". For instance,
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debated what to call the album. An exasperated Jones said, "Oh, fuck it, never mind the bollocks of it all."
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On 28 February 1977 McLaren announced Matlock was leaving the band because Matlock "went on too long about
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Jamie Reid's "God Save the Queen" sleeve; in 2001, it was named the greatest record cover of all time by
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Three concerts were arranged in the Netherlands for January 1977. The band, hungover, boarded a plane at
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for the first time on 30 March. On 3 April, they played for the first time at the Nashville, supporting
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The Sex Pistols have been recognised as a highly influential band. In 2006, they were inducted into the
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McLaren had long wanted to make a movie featuring the Sex Pistols. Temple's first task was to assemble
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The transcription of the television interview has been corrected per the documentary footage used in
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Rock 'n' Roll's Strangest Moments: Extraordinary Tales from Over Fifty Years of Rock Music History
2153: 1850: 8818: 8598: 8453: 6991:"Interview: Glen Matlock bring I Was a Teenage Sex Pistol show to 2014 Edinburgh Festival Fringe" 2283: 2226: 2204: â€“ guitar, backing vocals (1975–1978, 1996, 2002–2003, 2007–2008, 2024–present), bass (1977) 2103: 2052: 1909: 1404: 1333:"God Save the Queen" opened at number 2 on the official UK record chart for Jubilee week, behind 1094: 838: 379: 110: 6864: 2027:. Among the many later musicians who have acknowledged their debt to the Pistols are members of 1720:. In the mid-1980s he released a series of successful and influential records as a solo artist. 9106: 8787: 8432: 7208: 6175: 5382:"Frank Carter and Sex Pistols announce plans to play 'Never Mind The Bollocks' in its entirety" 2201: 1869: 851: 808: 733: 726: 710: 404: 321: 226: 72: 7968: 7416: 5976:"Frank Carter says Sex Pistols are reaction to government "dismantling the idea of community"" 2157:. It may also be that in the mind of their chief terrorist and propagandist, anarchist veteran 594:
looking for a "whizz kid guitarist ... not older than 20 ... not worse looking than
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is regularly cited as one of the all-time great albums: in 2006, it was voted No. 28 in
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musicians, while their clothing and hairstyles were a significant influence on the early
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1001 Songs: The Great Songs of All Time and the Artists, Stories and Secrets Behind Them
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https://www.kerrang.com/frank-carter-and-the-sex-pistols-announce-four-new-uk-shows
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that several of them were from. Their cutting-edge fashion, much of it supplied by
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The transcription has been slightly expanded per the documentary footage used in
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in February 1979 following his arrest for the alleged murder of his girlfriend,
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theme. It had been renamed in 1972 to focus on another revival trend, the '50s
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Cooper, M. (28 January 1978). "The Sex Pistols: Winterland, San Francisco".
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Nick Kent: 'I was in the right place at the right time, on the wrong drugs'
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The Sex Pistols are widely regarded as one of the most influential acts in
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Hibbert, T. (1989). "Pernicious? Moi? (interview with Malcolm McLaren)".
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s focus on McLaren and the media. In 2002 the band reunited to play the
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The Sex Pistols, early 1976; from left: Rotten, Jones, Matlock and Cook
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Early in the tour, Vicious was arrested while trying to buy heroin in
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On 4 and 6 July, respectively, two newly formed London punk rock acts—
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In late 1974, Jones asked McLaren to take over the band's management.
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as a vehicle for more than just couture. They were influenced by the
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Britpop!: Cool Britannia and the Spectacular Demise of English Rock
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In March 2006, the band sold the rights to their back catalogue to
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The Pistols soon played other important venues, notably playing at
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In August 1975, Rhodes spotted Lydon, then 19 years old, wearing a
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Retro Graphics: A Visual Sourcebook to 100 Years of Graphic Design
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and scandal of it all. Then it became the Malcolm McLaren story".
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Communicate: Independent British Graphic Design Since the Sixties
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in London. They undertook a short tour of North America in 2003.
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Their first gig to attract attention was as a supporting act for
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Raimes, Jonathan; Bhaskaran, Lakshmi; Renow-Clarke, Ben (2007).
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in its entirety. On August the 25th, they headlined along with
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later described the record's impact: "From Steve Jones' opening
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Cook had a full-time job and was threatening to quit the band.
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It may be that in the mind of their self-celebrated Svengali
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record, leading to the cancellation of several dates in the
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said that mid-seventies Britain was "a very depressing place
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Savage, John (April 1996). "On Tour with the Sex Pistols".
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Johnny Rotten on stage in Paradiso, Amsterdam, January 1977
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Pardo, Alona (2004). "Jamie Reid". In Poyner, Rick (ed.).
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in February 1976. The band's first review appeared in the
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Their first gig was arranged by Matlock, then studying at
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The album title led to a high-profile legal case after a
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Sympathy for the Devil: Art and Rock and Roll Since 1967
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Sympathy for the Devil: Art and Rock and Roll Since 1967
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preacher, protested against the group outside a show in
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August 1975, from left: Rotten, Matlock, Jones, and Cook
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Describing the social context in which the band formed,
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From Blues to Rock: An Analytical History of Pop Music
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Performance and Popular Music: History, Place and Time
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Siouxsie & the Banshees: The Authorised Biography
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Break All Rules!: Punk Rock and the Making of a Style
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The group had been rehearsing regularly, overseen by
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The Sex Pistols' first line-up consisted of vocalist
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The single was timed to coincide with the height of
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in the United Kingdom and inspired many later punk,
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5954: 5952:, p. 170. 5942: 5940:, p. 338. 5930: 5918: 5916:, p. 170. 5906: 5894: 5892:, p. 100. 5882: 5870: 5858: 5856:, p. 186. 5846: 5834: 5822: 5820:, p. 499. 5810: 5798: 5786: 5774: 5762: 5760:, p. 530. 5750: 5748:, p. 235. 5746:Strongman 2008 5738: 5726: 5724:, p. 164. 5714: 5712:, p. 735. 5699: 5697:, p. 585. 5687: 5685:, p. 144. 5675: 5671:Armstrong 2004 5663: 5651: 5639: 5627: 5615: 5613:, p. 208. 5603: 5601:, p. 149. 5591: 5579: 5567: 5565:, p. 122. 5555: 5543: 5531: 5519: 5507: 5495: 5483: 5471: 5469:, p. 456. 5459: 5447: 5435: 5420: 5409: 5398: 5369: 5357: 5345: 5330: 5318: 5306: 5294: 5268: 5253: 5241: 5210: 5198: 5186: 5174: 5162: 5150: 5146:Singleton 2023 5138: 5136:, January 1980 5123: 5111: 5099: 5087: 5075: 5063: 5061:, p. 188. 5051: 5039: 5027: 5023:Strongman 2008 5015: 5003: 4999:Strongman 2008 4991: 4979: 4964: 4962:, p. 180. 4952: 4937: 4925: 4913: 4901: 4889: 4887:, p. 145. 4877: 4865: 4853: 4851:, p. 464. 4841: 4829: 4817: 4805: 4793: 4791:, p. 200. 4781: 4769: 4767:, p. 120. 4757: 4755:, p. 244. 4745: 4733: 4721: 4719:, p. 446. 4709: 4694: 4692:, p. 430. 4682: 4670: 4668:, p. 403. 4658: 4646: 4644:, p. 202. 4634: 4632:, p. 113. 4622: 4610: 4608:, p. 609. 4598: 4596:, p. 415. 4583: 4571: 4569:, p. 414. 4559: 4547: 4532: 4530:, p. 556. 4520: 4508: 4496: 4494:, p. 359. 4484: 4472: 4460: 4445: 4443:, p. 200. 4430: 4428:, p. 409. 4418: 4406: 4394: 4382: 4370: 4358: 4346: 4334: 4330:Strongman 2008 4322: 4310: 4298: 4286: 4274: 4262: 4260:, p. 349. 4247: 4232: 4230:, p. 348. 4220: 4208: 4196: 4184: 4172: 4160: 4158:, p. 174. 4156:Strongman 2008 4148: 4146:, p. 147. 4136: 4134:, p. 124. 4124: 4122:, p. 262. 4112: 4110:, p. 143. 4100: 4079: 4067: 4063:Strongman 2008 4055: 4051:Strongman 2008 4043: 4031: 4016: 4004: 4002:, p. 176. 3992: 3990:, p. 308. 3977: 3965: 3953: 3941: 3929: 3914: 3912:, p. 172. 3910:Strongman 2008 3902: 3890: 3878: 3876:, p. 286. 3866: 3854: 3842: 3830: 3818: 3806: 3779: 3767: 3752: 3728: 3726:, p. 157. 3724:Strongman 2008 3716: 3714:, p. 264. 3704: 3702:, p. 260. 3692: 3680: 3678:, p. 245. 3668: 3666:, p. 253. 3656: 3644: 3642:, p. 258. 3632: 3620: 3616:Strongman 2008 3608: 3606:, p. 245. 3593: 3591:, p. 241. 3581: 3579:, p. 177. 3569: 3557: 3545: 3533: 3521: 3509: 3507:, p. 317. 3497: 3495:, p. 135. 3493:Strongman 2008 3485: 3473: 3461: 3449: 3437: 3425: 3423:, p. 207. 3413: 3401: 3389: 3387:, p. 205. 3377: 3373:Strongman 2008 3365: 3363:, p. 204. 3353: 3341: 3329: 3314: 3302: 3290: 3275: 3273:, p. 182. 3263: 3261:, p. 118. 3251: 3249:, p. 168. 3239: 3237:, p. 107. 3227: 3215: 3213:, p. 155. 3203: 3201:, p. 153. 3191: 3189:, p. 174. 3179: 3167: 3165:, p. 148. 3155: 3143: 3131: 3129:, p. 151. 3119: 3107: 3105:, p. 111. 3103:Strongman 2008 3095: 3093:, p. 201. 3083: 3071: 3059: 3055:Strongman 2008 3047: 3035: 3023: 3011: 2999: 2987: 2985:, p. 106. 2983:Strongman 2008 2975: 2973:, p. 129. 2963: 2961:, p. 114. 2951: 2939: 2922: 2918:Strongman 2008 2910: 2898: 2886: 2884:, p. 190. 2874: 2862: 2850: 2827: 2825:, p. 105. 2823:Strongman 2008 2815: 2813:, p. 112. 2803: 2788: 2776: 2772:Strongman 2008 2764: 2762:, p. 120. 2752: 2740: 2725: 2723:, p. 114. 2710: 2693: 2681: 2669: 2665:Strongman 2008 2657: 2645: 2643:, p. 110. 2633: 2621: 2617:Strongman 2008 2609: 2605:Strongman 2008 2597: 2585: 2573: 2561: 2549: 2537: 2525: 2513: 2501: 2497:Strongman 2008 2489: 2485:Strongman 2008 2477: 2465: 2453: 2441: 2437:Pingitore 2023 2428: 2426: 2423: 2420: 2419: 2405: 2392: 2383: 2373: 2360: 2358:, pp. 307–308. 2347: 2334: 2322: 2308: 2307: 2305: 2302: 2301: 2300: 2290: 2287: 2282:Main article: 2279: 2276: 2275: 2274: 2268: 2262: 2254: 2251: 2250: 2249: 2243: 2235: 2234:Former members 2232: 2231: 2230: 2222: 2219: 2218: 2217: 2211: 2205: 2197: 2194: 2192: 2189: 2111: 2108: 2001:Bernard Sumner 1940: 1937: 1935: 1932: 1847: 1844: 1825:, directed by 1751:Something Else 1725: 1722: 1651: 1648: 1578: 1568: 1558: 1553: 1552: 1551: 1542: 1541: 1540: 1511: 1508: 1389:Main article: 1386: 1383: 1321: 1315: 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The Sex Pistols
Sex Pistols (disambiguation)
The Sex Pistols performing in Paradiso, 1977. From left: Paul Cook, Glen Matlock, Johnny Rotten and Steve Jones.
Paradiso
Paul Cook
Glen Matlock
Johnny Rotten
Steve Jones
London
Punk rock
Sex Pistols discography
EMI
A&M
Virgin
Universal
Warner Bros.
Rich Kids
Public Image Ltd
Vicious White Kids
Sham Pistols
The Professionals
Steve Jones
Paul Cook
Glen Matlock
Johnny Rotten
Sid Vicious
sexpistolsofficial.com
punk rock
punk movement
post-punk

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