Sex Pistols to reform for one show
Reuters, Sep 18, 2007 3:00 pm PDTBritish punk rock band The Sex Pistols
will reform in November for one concert to mark the 30th
anniversary of their album "Never Mind the Bollocks."
The four surviving original band members -- John Lydon, Steve Jones, Paul Cook and Glen Matlock -- told a British music paper the band would play south London's Brixton Academy on November 8. Tickets for the concert go on sale this Friday.
The Pistols spearheaded the British Punk rock movement in the 1970s, helping to spawn hundreds of similar bands like the Clash and the Damned, who railed against the establishment and supergroups who they said had become boring.
The band split in 1978 shortly before the death of bassist Sid Vicious in New York from a drugs overdose.
Speaking about their return to the London gig scene for the first time since 2002, lead singer Lydon, who went by the stage name of Johnny Rotten, told music paper NME (Web site http://www.nme.com): "Maybe it's because we're all Londoners, but there would be no Sex Pistols without dear old London town."
The album "Never Mind the Bollocks -- here's the Sex Pistols" has been consistently voted one of the most influential in modern music history, drawing praise from artists as diverse as Nirvana and Paul McCartney.
The band's "God Save the Queen" single will be reissued on seven-inch vinyl to celebrate the anniversary.
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