Sex Pistols interview: Steve Jones on punk and 1977
It’s customary when celebrating 1977 to focus on its reputation as the year of punk, which of course it was, but its actual impact was way more limited than received wisdom would have us believe. The impetus that tabloid controversy gave to the Sex Pistols and the movement they had largely spawned was significant, but in terms of actual record sales, the impact of Damned Damned Damned, The Clash, and even Never Mind The Bollocks… Here’s The Sex Pistols was relatively slight.Here, Sex Pistols guitarist Steve Jones looks but at the year punk broke. &...
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