Sex Pistols

In the space of about seven months in 1976-77, the Pistols were signed to EMI (then dropped), signed to A&M (then dropped) and signed to Virgin (and kept).

The Pistols are a singular influence on much of what came in their wake – fellow British punks, thrash, college rock, Britpop, glam metal and grunge.

The Sex Pistols will celebrate the 40th anniversary of their landmark debut album with a book entitled '1977: The Bollocks Diaries.'

In a jeering display of monarchical mockery, the band ferried alongside the Queen on the River Thames, blasting the treasonous anthems plaguing the Commonwealth.

Alex Cox's 1986 movie about the Sex Pistols bassist and his girlfriend will get a major DVD/Blu-Ray release.

We anguished for hours over how to rank the Sex Pistols' studio albums.

A 1980 interview with a punk fanzine found Chuck Berry weighing in on the new sounds of the day.

As the Sex Pistols' founding bassist Glen Matlock was becoming unhappy with hysteria around the band, Johnny Rotten was encouraging his pal Sid Vicious to join.

After a few rocky months, featuring only one single and lots of controversy, EMI dropped the Sex Pistols from their record contract in January 1977.

The Sex Pistols unleashed a barrage of obscenities when they appeared on the U.K.'s 'Today' show in 1976. The punk band instantly became famous in Britain.