Sex Pistols in general

"I WANNA BE ANARCHY..." Once in every generation something comes along in music which blows everything else out of the water and changes the direction of history. Elvis Presley was the force of the Fifties with his astonishing stage performances and style and became universally feared as a demon who would corrupt the youth of a nation. In the early Sixties, the Beatles played The Star Club in Hamburg with toilet seats around their necks and quickly became the biggest thing that pop music had ever seen. A decade later, there was the androgynous, asexual, calculated bisexuality of David Bowie, the leading light of the glam rock ...  Read the complete review

When the Sex Pistols burst on the scene in the mid 70s, everything about them seemed so shocking and revolutionary: their name, the ripped clothes, the music... In retrospect, I feel that the punk movement changed the music scene for the better, gave things a deserved shaking up, and the Sex Pistols, as part of that, definitely played their part, but I'm not exactly convinced that the band really was all that shocking or revolutionary. Of course, we knew then that the whole thing was managed - Malcolm McLaren was just another svengali, different from 60s based ones such as Don Arden, or Peter Grant, but hellbent nonetheless on publicity, and he certainly ...  Read the complete review

They started the whole punk thing in the lateish 70's, and their music still stands above a that of the majority of the bands around today. Their style has influenced most of the punk bands that have recently become so popular, for example Green Day and The Offspring. They also were the first artists not to censor their lyrics. They had nothing against going completely over the top, and didn't seen concerned about who they offended. I think that the main reason that punk became so revolutionary was the music scene had become dominated by a few big names. I had a very long chat about punk with my maths teacher, and we came to the conclusion that the ...  Read the complete review

Sorry This is the wrong category - Doh - Do not read Around the end of 1974 , back in the days of vinyl and when I was still in my teens, punk as we came to know it was invented. I know it was 1976 before the Sex Pistols hit the shops with "Anarchy in the UK", but somewhere in New Yawk four bruddahs wearing leather jackets, ripped jeans, long hair!!!, shades, took the world by storm with three chords and four numbers. Their eponymous first album clocked in at around twenty eight minutes , with songs lucky to make the two minute mark. They were slightly controversial with songs like "Carbona Not Glue" but they provided a blueprint for punk ...  Read the complete review