Sex Pistols

A punk group active at the end of the 1970s. For the group, musical mediocrity and a ‘don’t care’ attitude were the guarantors of a spontaneity and an authenticity which were initially specific to rock but had been lost through the excess of virtuosity of the groups making music at the beginning of the decade. They decided, in their music, to wipe the slate clean of all the music of the past. If the group today has a legendary aura, at the time it was only number one in the English hit-parade for a single week.