Sex Pistols

The Sex Pistols were an English punk rock band, formed in London in 1975. The group's lead singer was Johnny Rotten and it featured Sid Vicious on bass.

Sex Pistols (1977)

Quotes

• That's no problem
  problems, problems
  the problem is you!
  • "Problems"

• We're so pretty, oh so pretty
  Pretty vacant
  And we don't care!
  • "Pretty Vacant"

• God save the Queen. Her fascist regime.
  • "God Save the Queen"

• There is no future in England's dreaming.
  • "God Save the Queen"

• Don't know what I want but I know how to get it.
  • "Anarchy In The U.K."

About Sex Pistols

• Never Mind the Bollocks is the root of everything that goes on at modern-rock radio.
  • Billie Joe Armstrong, quoted in John Leland, "Still Rotten After All These Years," Rolling Stone, 1028):71-116 (14 June 2007)

• But I was a rebel in the usual, rather superficial, ways that teenagers in the late 1970s were. I mean, I went fairly quickly from punk rock to Thatcherism. The two had much in common. The urge to challenge the consensus was very powerful in me at the age of 15, 16, 17, and the Sex Pistols and Margaret Thatcher alike were rebarbative and critical of what seemed to me a rather stagnant country.
  • Niall Ferguson, as qtd. in Huw Spanner, Past Master: In-depth Interview with Niall Ferguson, High Profiles (Published on 1 November 2007)