* John Lydon aka Johnny Rotten, singer with the Sex Pistols

* Johnny Rotten ( b. John Lydon ), singer of the Sex Pistols.

* 1978 – The English punk rock band Sex Pistols broke up amidst their US tour.

* Chris Thomas, the producer, whose credits include The Beatles, Procol Harum, Roxy Music, Pink Floyd ( mixed The Dark Side of the Moon ), the Sex Pistols and INXS.

" The Sex Pistols ' God Save The Queen, with its chant-like refrain of " no future ", became a slogan for unemployed and disaffected youth during the late 1970s.

By late 1976, bands such as the Ramones, in New York City, and the Sex Pistols and The Clash, in London, were recognized as the vanguard of a new musical movement.

Even as nostalgia was discarded, many in the scene adopted a nihilistic attitude summed up by the Sex Pistols slogan " No Future "; in the later words of one observer, amid the unemployment and social unrest in 1977, " punk's nihilistic swagger was the most thrilling thing in England.

In critic Steven Blush's description, " The Sex Pistols were still rock ' n ' roll ... like the craziest version of Chuck Berry.

The Sex Pistols classics " Anarchy in the U. K ." and " God Save the Queen " openly disparage the British political system and social mores.

Richard Hell's more androgynous, ragamuffin look — and reputed invention of the safety-pin aesthetic — was a major influence on Sex Pistols impresario Malcolm McLaren and, in turn, British punk style.

) McLaren's partner, fashion designer Vivienne Westwood, credits Johnny Rotten as the first British punk to rip his shirt, and Sex Pistols bassist Sid Vicious as the first to use safety pins.

Sid Vicious, before he became the Sex Pistols ' bassist, is credited with initiating the pogo in Britain as an attendee at one of their concerts.

First-wave British punk bands such as the Sex Pistols and The Damned insulted and otherwise goaded the audience into intense reactions.

The Who and fellow mods The Small Faces were among the few rock elders acknowledged by the Sex Pistols.

Britain's Deviants, in the late 1960s, played in a range of psychedelic styles with a satiric, anarchic edge and a penchant for situationist-style spectacle presaging the Sex Pistols by almost a decade.

With his Ziggy Stardust persona, David Bowie made artifice and exaggeration central — elements, again, that were picked up by the Sex Pistols and certain other punk acts.

Adopting a new name, the group played its first gig as the Sex Pistols on November 6, 1975, at St. Martin's School of Art and soon attracted a small but ardent following.

In February 1976, the band received its first significant press coverage ; guitarist Steve Jones declared that the Sex Pistols were not so much into music as they were " chaos ".

" McLaren envisioned the Sex Pistols as central players in a new youth movement, " hard and tough ".

Bernard Rhodes, a sometime associate of McLaren's and friend of the Sex Pistols ', was similarly aiming to make stars of the band London SS.

On June 4, 1976, the Sex Pistols played Manchester's Lesser Free Trade Hall in what came to be regarded as one of the most influential rock shows ever.

Among the approximately forty audience members were the two locals who organized the gig — they had formed the Buzzcocks after seeing the Sex Pistols in February.

That same night, The Clash debuted, opening for the Sex Pistols in Sheffield.

In critic Kurt Loder's description, the Sex Pistols purveyed a " calculated, arty nihilism, the Clash were unabashed idealists, proponents of a radical left-wing social critique of a sort that reached back at least to ... Woody Guthrie in the 1940s ".

Another Sex Pistols gig in Manchester on July 20, with a reorganized version of the Buzzcocks debuting in support, gave further impetus to the scene there.

Brown recorded disco material on his albums starting with 1975's Sex Machine Today, producing less than favorable results.

The band recorded a version of the Sex Pistols ' song " No Feelings " in late 1982 for the soundtrack of the British film, Party Party.

* The Red Hot Chili Peppers recorded a cover of " Search and Destroy " during the sessions for Blood Sugar Sex Magik ; the song appeared on the B-side of the " Give It Away " single, and later on the Iggy Pop tribute CD We Will Fall, the compilation CD Under the Covers, and the compilation CD The Beavis and Butt-Head Experience.

* Ronald Biggs recorded vocals on two songs for The Great Rock ' n ' Roll Swindle, Julien Temple's film about the Sex Pistols.

The basic tracks for " No One is Innocent " ( aka " The Biggest Blow ( A Punk Prayer )") and " Belsen Was a Gas " were recorded with guitarist Steve Jones and drummer Paul Cook at a studio in Brazil shortly after the Sex Pistols ' final performance, with overdubs being added in an English studio at a later date.

During an interview for Guitar Hero III, when Sex Pistols guitarist Steve Jones was asked why he, instead of Vicious, recorded the bass parts of Never Mind the Bollocks, Jones responded, " Sid was in a hospital with yellow jaundice and he couldn't really play, not that he could play anyway.

In John Lydon's autobiography, Rotten: No Blacks, No Dogs, No Irish, Lydon claimed that Matlock worked on later Sex Pistols material ( including their album Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols ) as a paid session musician ( Jones played bass on all of the songs recorded after Matlock's departure, with Vicious also contributing to the song " Bodies ").

With the help of Sex Pistol Paul Cook, the trio recorded their first demo.

Following the Zero Sex single, Demone opted to leave the band and Valor recorded the two-part All The Love, All The Hate concept album in collaboration with Nick the Bastard, which spawned the double A-side single We Fall Like Love / I Hate You.

In 2003, Social Distortion recorded a live DVD called Live in Orange County at the House of Blues in Anaheim, California which was released in 2004 along with Sex, Love and Rock ' n ' Roll, both of which were released on Time Bomb Recordings.

For example, the bawdy sea song " Frigging in the Rigging " was recorded by the punk band Sex Pistols.

Todd Rundgren recorded a version of " Do Ya " with his group Utopia on their album Another Live, Cheap Trick recorded a version of " California Man " on their Heaven Tonight album, whilst Glen Matlock of the Sex Pistols admitted that one of the guitar riffs on " God Save The Queen " was inspired by that on " Fire Brigade ".

According to Steven Adler's autobiography, My Appetite For Destruction: Sex & Drugs & Guns N ' Roses, the entire EP was recorded at Pasha Studios in Hollywood with pre-recorded audience applause and cheering in the background, as Geffen's engineers told him " it would cost too much to actually record a live record ".

1990s Private Waters in the Great Divide, described by the NME as " a return to form with inspired lyrics and buckets of the type of sexual innuendo that Creole has made his own ", had a hit with the single " The Sex of It ", a song written by Prince and recorded at Paisley Park Studios with Sheila E. It reached Top 40 in the US and UK and is to date one of his best-known songs.

Biggs recorded vocals on two songs for The Great Rock ' n ' Roll Swindle, Julien Temple's film about the Sex Pistols.

The basic tracks for " No One is Innocent " ( aka " The Biggest Blow ( A Punk Prayer )") and " Belsen Was a Gas " were recorded with guitarist Steve Jones and drummer Paul Cook at a studio in Brazil shortly after the Sex Pistols ' final performance, with overdubs being added in an English studio at a later date.

An early band who gained a following in Australia were, The Saints, who grew out of Queensland and who recorded one of the first punk singles, releasing a single on vinyl before the Sex Pistols.

His calypso, Sex is a Misdemeanor, continues to be recorded.

In the same year, Cheap Sex participated in the British Invasion 2k4 Festival, organized by SOS Records, the festival took place November 20, in San Bernardino, with The Adicts, The Exploited, Discharge, U. K. Subs, Cockney Rejects, The Restarts and local U. S. bands like Total Chaos, CH3 and Resilience among others, the show was recorded for a DVD release.

* There Will Always Be an England, a live DVD and documentary recorded in 2007 for Sex Pistols.

During their tenure in the J. B .' s, they recorded such classics as " Super Bad ", " Get Up ( I Feel Like Being A ) Sex Machine ", " Soul Power ", and " Give It Up or Turnit a Loose ".

Several live albums were recorded at the club, including one by the Sex Pistols.