![]() ![]() And while the Ramones, Iggy & the Stooges, and the Dictators made music that could’ve been called “punk rock,” the Sex Pistols were the first group to gain real mass-media attention and record an album that impacted the charts with Never Mind the Bollocks, Here’s the Sex Pistols.įormed in London in 1975, the Pistols were singer John “Johnny Rotten” Lydon, guitarist Steve Jones, bassist Glen Matlock, and drummer Paul Cook early on, they learned how to attract a following of disenfranchised youth and stand out with a fashion sense “opposite” of Yes and Zeppelin – short/spiky hair, torn clothing, etc. The punk-rock movement offered an alternative. By the mid ’70s, all of it aptly described the state of rock music. Lyrics that had nothing to do with reality. Stadium concerts with self-indulgent instrumental solos. The Sex Pistols onstage in ’77 – Glen Matlock, John Lydon, and Steve Jones.
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