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John Lydon in 1976. Photograph: Tony McGrath/The Observer
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John Lydon in 1976. Photograph: Tony McGrath/The Observer
Glen Matlock, Johnny Rotten, Sex Pistols, 1977
Glen Matlock and Johnny Rotten, Sex Pistols
49 years ago today
The beginning of the end of the Sex Pistols
Glen Matlock and the Sex Pistols announced their split, February 15, 1977.
📸 Ian Dickson
The original line-up of the Sex Pistols - on stage at the Notre Dame Meeting Hall in London, 1976
Sex Pistols, from left to right: Johnny Rotten, Paul Cook, Steve Jones and Glen Matlock, London, United Kingom, April 1976. Photo by Ray Stevenson.
the sex pistols are the closest a band has gotten to the beatles for me, not in musical similarity and not just in their place in music history but also because they were fucked up in a very specific way that not many other bands have captured
The Sex Pistols performing live at Halmstad's Diskotek Ostra Stranden; July 15, 1977.
📸 Lars Åström.
Paul Simonon, Mick Jones of The Clash, Riley and Andy Brown of Steel Pulse and Glen Matlock of the Sex Pistols protest outside the HQ of the National Front in Teddington in March 1978, by Caroline Coon.