By Ieuan Holland | Reviewed & Expanded for Record Collector Executive Overview “It’s just karaoke without Rotten.” It is a refrain hurled with predictable frequency by purists lucky enough to catch the Sex Pistols during their volatile, paradigm-shifting explosion in the late 1970s. Yet, half a century after the release of their seminal, culture-shaking debut … Read more
Executive Overview To the purists and the nostalgic veterans of 1977, the phrase "It’s just karaoke without Rotten" is a familiar refrain, muttered darkly in the shadows of pub beer gardens whenever the conversation turns to the modern incarnation of the Sex Pistols. Yet, as any historian of rock and roll will note, punk rock … Read more
Executive Overview Half a century after exploding onto the British cultural landscape with the force of a sonic bomb, the Sex Pistols’ seminal 1977 masterwork, Never Mind The Bollocks, Here’s the Sex Pistols, remains an unmatched cornerstone of modern music history. To mark this monumental milestone, the surviving architects of the global punk phenomenon have … Read more
