2023-10-30 17:05:15
Published on October 30, 2023 6:05 p.m. / Modified on October 30, 2023 6:10 p.m.
On October 28, 1977, when Never Mind the Bollocks, Here’s the Sex Pistols, English punk is already dead. A major musical movement of the mid-1970s, it was born in the margins before its recovery by the music industry, like this first and only Sex Pistols album, produced by Virgin, the label co-founded in 1972 by Richard Branson . In January 1978, the quartet – then composed of Johnny Rotten (vocals), Steve Jones (guitar), Sid Vicious (bass) and Paul Cook (drums) – left for the southern United States for a tour which would prove disastrous. and will see the group implode.
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