The Sex Pistols

Features

Part 3: Curtis Mayfield to The English Beat (1970-1980)

By PopMatters Staff

"Just a spoon full of sugar helps the medicine, go down .." Julie Andrews sang in Mary Poppins. Indeed, a bitter dose of angry words in need of saying, and set to a beat, quite effectively gets heard. [18 July 2007]

Reviews

The Sex Pistols: There’ll Always Be an England

By Kirby Fields

Temple first provides the background out of which the boys and indeed, the whole punk movement emerged, before going on to debunk some of the myths and to substantiate some others. [2 April 2009]

The Sex Pistols: The Great Rock and Roll Swindle [DVD]

By Will Harris

Still, 250 hours of footage, and none of it showed up on this DVD...? Ever get the feeling you've been cheated?" [27 July 2005]

The Sex Pistols: self-titled

By Tara Taghizadeh

As the Pistols geared up for the release of 'God Save the Queen', scores of youths, scattered around Europe and elsewhere, sensed the imminent revolution: They dismissed David Bowie and Gary Glitter as bourgeois, listened to 'Anarchy in the UK', and as the last act of defiance, wore safety pins on their school uniforms. [17 July 2002]