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Book Synopsis In November 1977, Warner Bros. secured the rights to release the album Never Mind The Bollocks, Here''s the Sex Pistols in America. The following January, the Sex Pistols--already the scourge of Britain--were discovered by unsuspecting American audiences in an infamous U.S. tour, accompanied by sensational media coverage and moral panic.
Malcolm McLaren, the band''s manager, eschewed the established rock ''n'' roll markets of New York and Los Angeles in favor of off-the-radar venues in Memphis, San Antonio and Baton Rouge, sowing the seeds for countercultural clashes in the conservative South. Two weeks later the band split up but punk had invaded mainstream American culture.
Drawing on input from fans, the author chronicles the Pistols'' first and only U.S. tour and separates fact from fallacy in the mythology surrounding those 12 days of mayhem.
Trade Review"For a fascinating and thought-provoking insight into the inner workings of the band and why everything had fallen apart by the time they reached San Francisco, look no further than this enthusiastic piece on how British punk rock ethics clashed with American culture more than forty years ago." - Eternal Terror
