Amoeba Music

“Actually we’re not into music,” guitarist Steve Jones of The Sex Pistols told Neil Spencer of England’s New Musical Express in February 1976, during the first flush of the band’s notoriety. “We’re into chaos.”

The chaos that bred the group in mid-‘70s London — a miasma of skyrocketing youth unemployment, renascent fascism, and civic disorder — would lead The Sex Pistols to become the premier exponents of a musical explosion, UK punk rock, that would consume itself almost as quickly as it spread. During the brief, eventful two-and-a-half years they spent at the center of a self-made storm, in which they crafted four incendiary singles and one archetypal album,... Read More

Genre:

Rock, Punk

City Of Origin:

London, England

Formed Date:

1975