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For the yaoi manga titled Sex Pistols in Japan, see. The Sex Pistols were an English band that formed in London in 1975. They were responsible for initiating the in the United Kingdom and inspiring many later punk and musicians. Although their initial career lasted just two and a half years and produced only four singles and one studio album, , they are regarded as one of the most influential acts in the history of. Matlock was replaced by in early 1977. Under the management of impresario , the band provoked controversies that captivated Britain. Their concerts repeatedly faced difficulties with organizers and authorities, and public appearances often ended in mayhem. In January 1978, at the end of a turbulent tour of the United States, Rotten left the band and announced its break-up. Over the next several months, the three other band members recorded songs for McLaren's film version of the Sex Pistols' story,. Vicious died of a in February 1979, following his arrest for the alleged of his. In 1996, Rotten, Jones, Cook and Matlock reunited for the ; through 2008, they staged further reunion shows and tours. Origins and early days The Sex Pistols evolved from the Strand, a London band formed in 1972 with working-class teenagers on vocals, on drums and on guitar. According to a later account by Jones, both he and Cook played on instruments they had stolen. Early line-ups of the Strand—sometimes known as the Swankers—also included Jim Mackin on organ and Stephen Hayes and later, briefly, Del Noones on bass. The band members regularly hung out at two clothing shops on the in , London: John Krivine and Steph Raynor's where worked as manager and and 's Too Fast to Live, Too Young to Die. The McLaren—Westwood shop had opened in 1971 as Let It Rock, with a 1950s revival theme. It had been renamed in 1972 to focus on another revival trend, the look associated with. In early 1974, Jones convinced McLaren to help out the Strand. Effectively becoming the group's manager, McLaren paid for their first formal rehearsal space. In November, McLaren temporarily relocated to New York City. After informally managing and promoting for a few months, McLaren returned to London in May 1975. Inspired by the that was emerging in —in particular by the radical visual style and attitude of , then with —McLaren began taking a greater interest in the Strand. The group had been rehearsing regularly, overseen by McLaren's friend , and had performed publicly for the first time. Soon after McLaren's return, Nightingale was kicked out of the band and Jones, uncomfortable as frontman, took over guitar duties. McLaren had been talking with the New York Dolls' about coming over to England to front the group. When those plans fell through, McLaren, Rhodes and the band began looking locally for a new member to assume the lead vocal duties. With the search going nowhere, McLaren made several calls to Richard Hell, who turned down the invitation. John Lydon joins the band In August 1975, Rhodes spotted nineteen-year-old Kings Road habitué John Lydon wearing a T-shirt with the words I Hate handwritten above the band's name and holes scratched through the eyes. Reports vary at this point: the same day, or soon after, either Rhodes or McLaren asked Lydon to come to a nearby pub in the evening to meet Jones and Cook. I thought he had a really interesting face. I liked his look. He had his 'I Hate Pink Floyd' T-shirt on, and it was held together with safety pins. John had something special, but when he started talking he was a real arsehole—but smart. Though the performance drove the band members to laughter, McLaren convinced them to start rehearsing with Lydon. Lydon later described the social context in which the band came together: Early Seventies Britain was a very depressing place. It was completely run-down, there was trash on the streets, total unemployment—just about everybody was on strike. Everybody was brought up with an education system that told you point blank that if you came from the wrong side of the tracks... Out of that came pretentious moi and the Sex Pistols and then a whole bunch of copycat wankers after us. Journalist of the NME jammed occasionally with the band, but left upon Lydon's recruitment. Cook, who had a full-time job he was loath to give up, was making noises about quitting. Not older than 20. Most of those who auditioned were incompetent, but in McLaren's view, the process created a new sense of solidarity among the four band members. Jones was improving rapidly, however, and the band's developing sound had no room for the technical lead work at which New was adept. He departed after a month. The band also settled on a name. After considering options such as Le Bomb, Subterraneans, the Damned, Beyond, Teenage Novel, Kid Gladlove, and Crème de la Crème, they decided on Sex Pistols—a shortened form of the name they had apparently been working under informally. The Sex Pistols in late 1975; L-R: Rotten, Matlock, Jones, and Cook Their first gig was arranged by Matlock, who was studying at. The band played at the school on 6 November 1975, in support of a group called , arranging to use their amps and drums. Before the Pistols could play the few original songs they had written to date, Bazooka Joe pulled the plugs as they saw their gear being trashed. A brief physical altercation between members of the two bands took place on stage. Building a following The Saint Martins gig was followed by other performances at colleges and art schools around London. The Sex Pistols' core group of followers—including , and , who would go on to form bands of their own, as well as Jordan and —came to be known as the , after the suburban borough several were from. Their cutting-edge fashion, much of it supplied by Sex, ignited a trend that was adopted by the new fans the band attracted. McLaren and Westwood saw the incipient London punk movement as a vehicle for more than just couture. They were both captivated by the , particularly by the ideology and agitations of the , as well as the anarchist thought of and others. The original line-up of the Sex Pistols, early 1976. Left to right: Rotten, Jones, Matlock and Cook. These interests were shared with , an old friend of McLaren who began producing publicity material for the Sex Pistols in the spring of 1976. The cut-up lettering employed to create the classic Sex Pistols logo and many subsequent designs for the band was actually introduced by McLaren's friend Helen Wellington-Lloyd. After chatting with McLaren at Sex, they saw the band at a couple of late February gigs. The two friends immediately began organising their own Pistols-style group, the. On 3 April, they played for the first time at the Nashville, supporting. The pub rock group's lead singer, , saw the Pistols for the first time that night—and recognised punk rock as the future. A return gig at the Nashville on 23 April demonstrated the band's growing musical competence, but by all accounts lacked a spark. Westwood provided that by instigating a fight with another audience member; McLaren and Rotten were soon involved in the melee. I think everybody was ready to go and we were the catalyst. On April 23, as well, the by the leading punk rock band in the New York scene, the , was released. They devoted the rest of the month to touring small cities and towns in the north of England and recording demos in London with producer and recording artist. The following month they played their first gig in , arranged by Devoto and Shelley. The Sex Pistols' 4 June performance at the set off a punk rock boom in the city. On 4 July and 6 July, respectively, two newly formed London punk rock acts, —with Strummer as lead vocalist—and , made their live debuts opening for the Sex Pistols. On their off night in between, the Pistols despite Lydon's later professed disdain showed up for a Ramones gig at , like virtually everyone else at the heart of the London punk scene. Three days later, the band were in Manchester to tape what would be their first television appearance, for 's. The Sex Pistols played their first concert outside Britain on 3 September, at the opening of the Chalet du Lac disco in Paris. The Bromley Contingent made the trip and Siouxsie Sioux was hassled by locals due to her outfit with bare breasts. A week later, back in London, they headlined the opening night of the. On 8 October 1976, the major record label signed the Sex Pistols to a two-year contract. In short order, the band was in the studio recording a full-dress session with Dave Goodman. We were pressurized to make it faster and faster. The single's packaging and visual promotion also broke new ground. Reid and McLaren came up with the notion of selling the record in a completely wordless, featureless black sleeve. This and other images created by Reid for the Sex Pistols quickly became punk icons. Audio from the 1976 interview conducted by Bill Grundy, where Grundy is called a and a by Jones Problems playing this file? The Sex Pistols' behaviour, as much as their music, brought them national attention. On 1 December 1976, the band and members of the Bromley Contingent created a storm of publicity by swearing during an early evening live broadcast of 's Today programme. Appearing as last-minute replacements for fellow EMI artists , the band and their entourage were offered drinks as they waited to go on air. We'll meet afterwards, shall we? You dirty old man. Grundy: Well keep going, chief, keep going. You've got another five seconds. Jones: You dirty bastard. Grundy: Go on, again. Jones: You dirty fucker. Grundy: What a clever boy. Jones: What a fucking rotter. Thames Television suspended Grundy and, though he was later reinstated, the interview effectively ended his career. The episode made the band household names throughout the country and brought punk into mainstream awareness. The Pistols set out on the Anarchy Tour of the UK, supported by the Clash and Johnny Thunders' band , over from New York. The Damned were briefly part of the tour, before McLaren kicked them off. Media coverage was intense, and many of the concerts were cancelled by organisers or local authorities; of approximately twenty scheduled gigs, only about seven actually took place. Following a campaign waged in the south Wales press, a crowd including carol singers and a Pentecostal preacher protested against the group outside a show in. Packers at the EMI plant refused to handle the band's single. The worst of the punk rock groups I suppose currently are the Sex Pistols. They are unbelievably nauseating. They are the antithesis of humankind. I would like to see somebody dig a very, very large, exceedingly deep hole and drop the whole bloody lot down it. Despite categorical denials by the EMI representative who accompanied the group, the label, which was under political pressure, released the band from their contract. As McLaren fielded offers from other labels, the band went into the studio for a round of recordings with Goodman, their last with either him or Matlock. Sid Vicious joins the band The Sex Pistols Sid Vicious left, Steve Jones centre, and Johnny Rotten right performing in Trondheim, Norway, July 1977 In February 1977, word leaked out that Matlock was leaving the Sex Pistols. On 28 February, McLaren sent a telegram to the NME confirming the split. His mum didn't like the songs. He said it declared us fascists. Matlock almost immediately formed his own band, , with , , and. Born John Simon Ritchie, later known as John Beverley, Vicious was previously drummer of two inner circle punk bands, and. He was also credited with introducing the to the scene at the 100 Club. John Robb claims it was at the first Sex Pistols residency gig, 11 May 1976; Matlock is convinced it happened during the second night of the 100 Club Punk Special in September, when the Pistols were off playing in Wales. The other two just thought he was crazy. McLaren approved the belated inclusion of Vicious, who had virtually no experience on his new instrument, on account of his look and reputation in the punk scene. The Sex Pistols with , c. Arrested for hurling a glass at The Damned that shattered and blinded a girl in one eye, he had served time in a remand centre—and contributed to the 100 Club banning all punk bands. At a previous 100 Club gig, he had assaulted Nick Kent with a bicycle chain. He was the knight in shining armour with a giant fist. It would just be for the sensationalism and scandal of it all. Membership in the Sex Pistols had a progressively destructive effect on Vicious. Everything was fun and giggly. Suddenly he was a big pop star. Pop star status meant press, a good chance to be spotted in all the right places, adoration. That's what it all meant to Sid. Early in 1977, he met , an emotionally disturbed drug addict and sometime prostitute from New York. Spungen is commonly thought to be responsible for introducing Vicious to heroin, and the emotional codependency between the couple alienated Vicious from the other members of the band. She was killing him. I was absolutely convinced this girl was on a slow suicide mission.... Only she didn't want to go alone. She wanted to take Sid with her.... She was so utterly fucked up and evil. Vicious smashed in a toilet bowl and cut his foot—there is some disagreement about which happened first. As Vicious trailed blood around the offices, Rotten verbally abused the staff and Jones got frisky in the ladies' room. Vicious debuted with the band at London's Notre Dame Hall on 28 March. In May, the band signed with , their third new label in little more than half a year. Workers at the pressing plant laid down their tools in protest at the song's content. Jamie Reid's now famous cover, showing with her features obscured by the song and band names in cutout letters, offended the sleeve's plate makers. After much talk, production resumed and the record was finally released on 27 May. Several major chains refused to stock the single. I don't even know the name of the Prime Minister. The Virgin release had been timed to coincide with the height of Queen Elizabeth's celebrations. By Jubilee weekend, a week and a half after the record's release, it had sold more than 150,000 copies—a massive success. On 7 June, McLaren and the record label arranged to charter a private boat and have the Sex Pistols perform while sailing down the , passing and the. The event, a mockery of the Queen's river procession planned for two days later, ended in chaos. Police launches forced the boat to dock, and constabulary surrounded the gangplanks at the pier. While the band members and their equipment were hustled down a side stairwell, McLaren, Westwood, and many of the band's entourage were arrested. As it turned out, the record placed second, behind a single in its fourth week at the top. Many believed that the record had actually qualified for the top spot, but that the chart had been rigged to prevent a spectacle. McLaren later claimed that , which was distributing both singles, told him that the Sex Pistols were actually outselling Stewart two to one. There is evidence that an exceptional directive was issued by the British Phonographic Institute, which oversaw the chart-compiling bureau, to exclude sales from record-company operated shops such as Virgin's for that week only. Violent attacks on punk fans were on the rise. In mid-June Rotten himself was assaulted by a knife-wielding gang outside 's Pegasus pub, causing tendon damage to his left arm. Jamie Reid and Paul Cook were beaten up in other incidents; three days after the Pegasus assault, Rotten was attacked again. According to Cook, after the God Save The Queen Single and the Bill Grundy Incident, the Pistols were the public enemy number one, and there was a rivalry between gangs of rockabillies or Teddie Boys and the punks, which derived in many fights. A tour of Scandinavia, planned to start at the end of the month, was consequently delayed until mid-July. In Oslo, Lydon posed in front of the photographs making the Nazi salute while wearing a sweater with a Swastika drawing. He's got nothing to do with the music or the image... All we're trying to do is destroy everything. McLaren had wanted for some time to make a movie featuring the Sex Pistols. Julien Temple's first major task had been to assemble Sex Pistols Number 1, a twenty-five-minute mosaic of footage from various sources, much of it refilmed by Temple from television screens. Number 1 was often screened at concert venues before the band took the stage. Using media footage from the Thames incident, Temple created another propagandistic short, Jubilee Riverboat aka Sex Pistols Number 2. During summer 1977, McLaren had been making arrangements for the feature film of his dreams, , to be directed by from a script by. After a single day of shooting, 11 September, production ceased when it became clear that McLaren had failed to arrange financing. Never Mind the Bollocks Promotional poster, 1977 Since the spring of 1977, the three senior Sex Pistols had been returning to the studio periodically with Chris Thomas to lay down the tracks for the band's debut album. Initially to be called God Save Sex Pistols, it became known during the summer as Never Mind the Bollocks. Luckily he had hepatitis at the time. Given Vicious's incompetence, Matlock had been invited to record as a session musician. When he left I dubbed another part on, leaving Sid's down low. I think it might be barely audible on the track. Each was a Top Ten hit. Nonetheless, advance sales were sufficient to make it an undeniable number one on the album chart. Steve Jones off-handedly came up with the title as the band debated what to call the album. Of eight scheduled dates, four were cancelled due to illness or political pressure. On Christmas Day, the Sex Pistols played two shows at Ivanhoe's in. US tour and the end of the band US poster for Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols In January 1978, the Sex Pistols embarked on a US tour, consisting mainly of dates in America's. Originally scheduled to begin a few days before New Year's, it was delayed due to American authorities' reluctance to issue visas to band members with criminal records. Several dates in the North had to be cancelled as a result. Though highly anticipated by fans and media, the tour was plagued by in-fighting, poor planning and physically belligerent audiences. McLaren later admitted that he purposely booked bars to provoke hostile situations. Over the course of the two weeks, Vicious, by now heavily addicted to heroin, began to live up to his stage name. When he was ultimately found, he received a beating from the security team hired by , the band's American label. Suffering from heroin withdrawal during a show in , he spat blood at a woman who had climbed onstage and punched him in the face. He was admitted to hospital later that night to treat various injuries. Now we can be friends. Rotten, meanwhile, suffering from flu and coughing up blood, felt increasingly isolated from Cook and Jones, and disgusted by Vicious. This is no fun—at all. Ever get the feeling you've been cheated? Sid was completely out of his brains—just a waste of space. The whole thing was a joke at that point.... He would not discuss anything with me. But then he would turn around and tell Paul and Steve that the tension was all my fault because I wouldn't agree to anything. McLaren, Cook and Jones prepared to fly to for a working vacation. Vicious, in increasingly bad shape, was taken to Los Angeles by a friend, who then brought him to New York, where he was immediately hospitalised. Rotten flew to New York, where he announced the band's break-up in a newspaper interview on 18 January. Virtually broke, he telephoned the head of Virgin Records, , who agreed to pay for his flight back to London, via Jamaica. In Jamaica, Branson met with members of the band , and tried to install Rotten as their lead singer. Devo declined the offer, which Rotten also found unappealing. Cook, Jones and Vicious never performed together again live after Rotten's departure. Over the next several months, McLaren arranged for recordings in Brazil with Jones and Cook , Paris with Vicious and London; each of the three and others stepped in as lead vocalists on tracks that in some cases were far from what punk was expected to sound like. These recordings were to make up the musical soundtrack for the reconceived Pistols feature film project, directed by Julien Temple, to which McLaren was now devoting himself. The single reached number seven on the charts, eventually outselling all the singles with which Rotten was involved. McLaren was seeking to reconstitute the band with a permanent new frontman, but Vicious—McLaren's first choice—had sickened of him. In August, Vicious, back in London, delivered his final performances as a nominal Sex Pistol: recording and filming cover versions of two songs. The bassist's return to New York in September put paid to McLaren's dreaming. After the break-up After leaving the Pistols, Johnny Rotten reverted to his birth name of Lydon, and formed PiL with former Clash member and school friend. Lydon initiated legal proceedings against McLaren and the Sex Pistols' management company, Glitterbest, which McLaren controlled. In 1979, PiL recorded the classic. Lydon performed with the band through 1992, as well as engaging in other projects such as with and. Vicious, relocated in New York, began performing as a solo artist, with Nancy Spungen acting as his manager. On 12 October 1978, Spungen was found dead in the room she was sharing with Vicious, with a stab wound to her stomach and dressed only in her underwear. Police recovered drug paraphernalia from the scene and Vicious was arrested and charged with her murder. Sid was set to marry Nancy in New York. He was very close to her and had quite a passionate affair with her. While free on , Vicious smashed a beer mug in the face of Todd Smith, 's brother, and was arrested again on an assault charge. On 9 December 1978 he was sent to jail, where he spent 55 days and underwent enforced cold-turkey detox. He was released on 1 February 1979; sometime after midnight, following a small party to celebrate his release, Vicious died of a heroin overdose. The only way he could live up to what he wanted everyone to believe about him was to die. That was tragic, but more for Sid than anyone else. He really bought his public image. Cook and Jones were allied with McLaren, but as evidence mounted that their manager had poured virtually all of the band's revenue into his beloved film project, they switched sides. On 14 February, the court put the film and its soundtrack into —no longer under McLaren's control, they were now to be administered as exploitable assets for addressing the band members' financial claims. A month later, back in London, he disassociated himself from the film to which he had devoted so much time and money. McLaren went on to manage and. In the mid-1980s he released a number of successful and influential records as a solo artist. It is mostly composed of tracks credited to the Sex Pistols: There are the new recordings with vocals by Jones, Vicious, Cook, and Ronnie Biggs, as well as ,who recorded a scene for the Sex Pistols' film. McLaren himself takes the mic for a couple of numbers. Several tracks feature Rotten's vocals from early, unissued sessions, in some cases with re-recorded backing by Jones and Cook. There is one live cut, from the band's final concert in San Francisco. The album is completed by a couple of tracks in which other artists cover Sex Pistols classics. Four Top Ten singles were culled from the Swindle recordings, one more than had appeared on Never Mind the Bollocks. The Sex Pistols film was completed by Temple, who received sole credit for the script after McLaren had his name taken off the production. Finally released in 1980, still largely reflects McLaren's vision. And that was never the point.... The myth had to be dynamited in some way. Cook and Jones continued to work through guest appearances and as. In 1980, they formed , which lasted for two years. Jones went on to play with the bands Chequered Past and. He also recorded two solo albums, and. Now a resident of Los Angeles, he hosts a daily radio program called Jonesy's Jukebox. Having played with the band in the late 1980s and with in the 1990s, Cook is now a member of. Following The Rich Kids' break-up in 1979, Matlock played with various bands, toured with , and recorded several solo albums. He is currently a member of Slinky Vagabond. The 1979 court ruling had left many issues between Lydon and McLaren unresolved. Five years later, Lydon filed another action. Finally, on 16 January 1986, Lydon, Jones, Cook and the estate of Sid Vicious were awarded control of the band's heritage, including the rights to The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle and all the footage shot for it—more than 250 hours. That same year, a fictionalised film account of Vicious's relationship with Spungen was released: , directed by. Reunions and later group activities Fender Stratocaster signed by the Sex Pistols during their 1996 reunion tour, , London The original four Sex Pistols reunited in 1996 for the six-month , which included dates in Europe, North and South America, Australia and Japan. The band members' access to the archives associated with The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle facilitated the production of the 2000 documentary. This film—directed, like its predecessor, by Temple—was formulated as an attempt to tell the story from the band's point of view, in contrast to Swindle's focus on McLaren and the media. In 2002—the year of the Queen's —the Sex Pistols reunited again to play the in London. In 2003, their Piss Off Tour took them around North America for three weeks. On 9 March 2006, the band sold the rights to their back catalogue to. In November 2006, the Sex Pistols were inducted to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. The band rejected the honour in coarse language on their website. In 2008, they undertook a series of European festival appearances, titled the Combine Harvester Tour. Really, they're nothing more than that. In 2010, Fragrance and Beauty Limited announced the release of an authorised Sex Pistols scent. Never Mind the Bollocks is regularly cited in accountings of all-time great albums: In 2006, it was voted No. It has come to be recognised as among the most influential records in rock history. The Sex Pistols directly inspired the style, and often the formation itself, of many punk and post-punk bands during their first two-and-a-half-year run. She later explained their importance: Nothing would have happened without the Pistols. I'm going to do what I do and I don't care what people think. People forget that, but it was the main ideology for me: we don't care what you think—you're shit anyway. It was the attitude that got people moving, as well as the music. The Sex Pistols' 4 June 1976 concert at Manchester's Lesser Free Trade Hall was to become one of the most significant and mythologised events in rock history. Among the audience of merely forty people or so were many who became leading figures in the punk and post-punk movements: and , who organised the gig and were in the process of auditioning new members for the ; , and , later of ; , later of ; and , later of. Among the many musicians of a later time who have acknowledged their debt to the Pistols are members of the , , , , , , , and. A confrontational, nihilistic public image and rabidly nihilistic socio-political lyrics set the tone that continues to guide punk bands. In a time when music had been increasingly complicated and defanged, the Sex Pistols' generational shift caused a real revolution. This is a bloke, with a brain on his shoulders, who is actually saying something he sincerely believes is happening in the world, saying it with real venom, and real passion. It touches you and it scares you—it makes you feel uncomfortable. And there's no way we're gonna stop 'em! Jamie Reid's work for the band is regarded as among the most important graphic design of the 1970s and still impacts the field in the 21st century. While the manner of his death signified for many the inevitable failure of punk's social ambitions, it cemented his image as an archetype of doomed youth. This commitment to anarchy, this commitment to chaos. The degree to which the Pistols' anti-establishment stance resulted from the members' spontaneous attitudes as opposed to being cultivated by McLaren and his associates is a matter of debate—as is the very nature of that stance itself. Deprecating the music, McLaren elevated the concept, for which he later took full credit. Maybe it was that he knew he was redundant, so he overcompensated. All the talk about the French Situationists being associated with punk is bollocks. The Jamie Reids and Malcolms were excited because we were the real thing. I suppose we were what they were dreaming of. It was a general call to rebellion that falls apart at the slightest scrutiny. If they did anything, they made a lot of people content with being nothing. They certainly didn't inspire the working classes. It was over the edge of the precipice in social terms. They were actually giving a voice to an area of the working class that was almost beyond the pale. In 1980, critic reflected on McLaren's contradictory posture: It may be that in the mind of their self-celebrated Svengali... It may also be that in the mind of their chief terrorist and propagandist, anarchist veteran... The Sex Pistols were all of these things. However, on the other hand, I've since found out that even Malcolm wasn't as aware of what he was up to as he has since made out. Music historian argues that McLaren came into his own as an only after the group's break-up, with The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle and the recruitment of Ronnie Biggs as a vocalist. Much subsequent commentary on the Sex Pistols has relied on taking seriously McLaren's onscreen proclamations in the film, whether lending them credence or not. It was a joke that they were completely manufactured. Ever since joined the army! He's its raging brain. McLaren or his friend Jamie Reid might drop a word like 'anarchy' or 'vacant' that Rotten seizes upon and turns into a manifesto, but McLaren is not the Svengali to Rotten he'd like to be perceived as. On the other hand, there is little disagreement about McLaren's marketing talent and his crucial role in making the band a phenomenon soon after its debut. He chose McLaren, not vice versa. Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Retrieved 19 May 2010. Retrieved 28 May 2010. Archived from on 17 February 2008. Retrieved 21 February 2008. Retrieved 17 March 2009. Metropolitan Museum of Art. Retrieved 7 October 2006. Retrieved 3 August 2010. Retrieved 10 October 2006. See also Savage, Jon, England's Dreaming, pp. Savage notes that the July 1975 unemployment figures were the worst since World War II p. See also Matlock, Glen, I Was a Teenage Sex Pistol, pp. Matlock says the band decided on the name while McLaren was in the United States—no later than May 1975—before Rotten even joined p. Jon Savage says the name was not firmly settled on until just before their first show in November 1975 England's Dreaming, p. Retrieved 15 October 2006. Strongman says that Rotten was pinned to the wall by Bazooka Joe's Danny Kleinman; after an apology, the Pistols continued playing for a few more minutes. Robb describes a brief fistfight that took place after the plugs were pulled. Retrieved 9 October 2006. For more on Lydon's apparently coincidental resemblance to Hell, see also Matlock, Glen, I Was a Teenage Sex Pistol, p. See also Matlock, Glen, I Was a Teenage Sex Pistol, p. Retrieved 6 February 2009. Retrieved 20 September 2006. Quote: Savage, Jon, England's Dreaming, p. Retrieved 14 March 2009. Quote: Gimarc, George, Punk Diary, p. Jonh Ingham—My Back Pages. Retrieved 19 March 2009. Savage, Jon, England's Dreaming, pp. See also Strongman, Phil, Pretty Vacant, p. Archived from on 18 October 2006. Retrieved 14 October 2006. Retrieved 22 July 2010. 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