1978 NBC news segment on the horrors of The Sex Pistols coming to America

[jandrese]

I just remembered my favorite quote about the Sex Pistols, from Dennis Miller of all people:

That’s why I had to give it to the Sex Pistols. Bunch of drunken, butt-ugly degenerate working-class cockney thugs who never learned how to play their instruments, songs that sounded like a cat being chainsawed inside an airborne Cessna with engine trouble, attitudes that made the Manson Family look like Up with People with a contempt for their audience that almost matched the contempt they had for one another; the instant they started gaining popularity, the nanosecond some pretentious asswipe wrote an article in Rolling Stone hailing them as “rock’s subversive saviors,” what did they do? They broke up. They told us all to go fuck ourselves. Now that is rock & roll.