Sex Pistols to Rock and Roll Hall: Fuck Off

Told they had been chosen to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, the Sex Pistols (or whoever or whatever is standing for them these days) replied in a manner befitting their punk image:

Next to the SEX PISTOLS[,] rock and roll and that hall of fame is a piss stain.

Link courtesy Huff Post. Of course, the Sex Pistols themselves were pretty much a put-up job, but despite their Monkees-like provenance*, they did manage to influence a generation. See the Wikipedia entry for a picture of an Aug. 29, (1976?) poster for a gig featuring the Sex Pistols, the Clash and the Buzzcocks. Wow.

*From the Wikipedia entry:

Under McLaren's guidance, the band was initially influenced in part by the simple, chord-based style of The New York Dolls and The Ramones. McLaren had given guitarist Jones the Les Paul guitar used by NY Doll Sylvain Sylvain, and the torn-shirt, spiked-hair look of Richard Hell, then bass player for Television. All of these figures were pioneers of the New York City punk, and later new wave music, scene. Rotten and his circle of friends (coincidentally all also called John) walked into the arrangement already possessed of a similar style -- a grunged-out version of the 'soul boy' fashion affected by fans of Roxy Music. McLaren also claimed that he wanted the Sex Pistols to be "the new Bay City Rollers".

The new Bay City Rollers. Heh. This BBC page says of the Rollers -- tongue planted firmy in stiff upper lip -- "We will never see their like again."

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