Possibly the most eagerly anticipated, the most explosive, the most iconoclastic album in my memory was Never Mind the Bollocks by the Sex Pistols.
I think all the songs have stood the test of time well, but to really ’get it’ you had to be following the music scene here in the UK in 76/77.
Their social impact was immense and the fallout had an after-life lasting decades. They made the Stones look like a bunch of naughty chartered accountants.
Their manager Malcolm McLaren might have thought he was orchestrating some kind of retro Rock N Roll experiment but soon found himself way out of his depth. As a direct consequence the unfortunate band members Lydon, Matlock, Cook and especially Steve Jones spent years of living through post-traumatic stress disorder.
Sid Vicious, bassist and figurehead, didn’t even make it that far.
