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[[File:FilthandtheFury.png|frame|All because he said '[[Cluster F-Bomb|Fuck]]'.]]
{{quote|''Next to the Sex Pistols, rock and roll and that hall of fame is a piss stain. Your museum. Urine in wine. We're not coming. We're not your monkeys. If you voted for us, hope you noted your reasons. You're anonymous as judges but you're still music industry people. We're not coming. You're not paying attention. Outside the shit-stream is a real Sex Pistol.''
|'''Steve Jones''', rejecting the band's admission to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame}}
Late [[The Seventies|1970s]] punk rock band, not the original but definitely the most famous. The [[Sex Pistols]] were composed of vocalist Johnny Rotten (aka John Lydon), guitarist Steve Jones, drummer Paul Cook, and bassists Glen Matlock and Sid Vicious (aka John Simon Ritchie), who replaced Matlock. They are credited with starting the punk movement in Britain. Though the band didn't last very long (1975-78), and released only a single album, ''Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols'', they are one of the most influential bands in the history of pop music. Strangely enough, their biggest fans today range from hardcore punks to geeks.
Famously, the band performed to a crowd of approximately 42 people at the Manchester Free Trade Hall in Manchester England in June of 1976. As recounted in the film ''[[24 Hour Party People]]'', each person in the crowd either later formed a band (future members of [[The Smiths]], [[Joy Division]] (and by extension [[New Order]]), The Fall, The Buzzcocks and Simply Red) or had a pivotal role in shaping that city's music scene (Factory Records founder Tony Wilson and NME journalist Paul Morley). This show alone was proof to the band's reaching influence on punk, post-punk, new wave and eventually alternative and indie rock music.
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