I mean, who was this news for? It was news for the wrong reasons. It was like, here’s the Pistols making front-page news in England every time they burp and fart, which they did a lot. So it was reported in America, and it couldn’t help but define punk rock, because as soon as something is on the seven o’clock news and on the front page of the newspapers, then that is punk rock. It’s the Sex Pistols and what does it do? It burps and farts and curses. Does it make music? Maybe, maybe not. Who can be bothered to listen to the music? Do you think Walter Cronkite was going to listen to twenty
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