“Music," says the Sex Pistols repulsive lead singer, Johnny Rotten, “became muzak. It was rubbish, just noises. Rick Wakeman epics...theyre just nonsense. You cant relate to them. So we done something about it."

What the Sex Pistols done was to create, almost single-handed, the biggest change-around on the British rock scene for a decade or more. Whether you call it punk rock, New Wave, or— as Rotten suggests— 1970s high energy rock, hardly matters. “Everyone knows," as' Mick Jones of The Clash puts it, “that its the next thing thats going to have any real force."