God save Sex Pistols - Johan Kugelberg

The
Sex
Pistols
have
defined
the
look,
sound,
and feel
of
the
punk
movement
since
they
formed
in London in 1975. Together for less than three years- a
short
run
that
included
just
four
singles
and
one studio
album
before
they
broke
up
in
1978-their impact on the musical and cultural landscape of the last forty years is nothing short of remarkable. The
Sex
Pistols-Johnny
Rotten,
Steve
Jones,
Paul Cook, and Glen Matlock (later to be replaced by Sid Vicious)-were
brought
together
by
the
cultural impresario
Malcolm
McLaren.
Between
the
culti- vated
attitude
of
the
players
themselves,
the
aggres- sive
management
of
McLaren,
and
the
tremendous success
of
their
era-defining
album
Never
Mind
the Bollocks Here's the Sex Pistols, the band embodied the punk spirit and colored the worlds of music, fashion, youth culture, and design forever. Published to coincide with the fortieth anniversary of the band's formation, Johan Kugelberg and Jon Savage draw on an unprecedented wealth of mate- rial-from McLaren's handwritten letters to never- before-seen photographs of the band, Jamie Reid's iconic
album
artwork,
and
a
range
of
ephemera from
concert
tickets
to
fanzines-to
produce
the most comprehensive visual history of the band ever produced and a bible of popular culture for years to come.