Get Pissed, Destroy! No Pistols in the Rock n Roll Hall of Fame…
TIME Magazine, Nov. 29th 2005: “In what some may see as the ultimate act of punk heresy, England’s legendary Sex Pistols have been tapped for induction into the Rock’n’Roll Hall of Fame. Others, of course, might argue that it completes what the Pistols’ estranged ex-manager-creator Malcolm McLaren dubbed the “Great Rock’n’Roll Swindle”‚Äîhe maintains that the iconoclastic band he devised from his King’s Road boutique was really just an elaborate prank on the music industry. Indeed, there is more than a measure of irony in the Pistols’ being anointed to the iconic pantheon of a genre they had decried as fatuously boring and had aimed to destroy….”
Official announcement from the Sex Pistols regarding the Rock n Roll Hall of Fame, Feb. 24th 2006:
from: jlydon.com
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