November 26, 1976: Anarchy in the kingdom – the sex Pistols publish their first single
In the beginning it was not a dizziness, no travesty, no cynical all -round, even if Schwadronur Malcolm McLaren later wanted to have planned. The sex pistols from 1976 were angry, loud and evil. It whirled up tons of dust that had settled on the saturated dignitaries of pop. Album acts, all. It started the oligarchs, blew her rock Biedermeier: “No future!” And it came out of nowhere as a 7-inch single in a pitch black.
Well, not quite. The floor was prepared. As early as June 1976, Mick Farren had held a much -noticed fire speech in the “New Musical Express” in which he complained about the status quo of Rock’n’roll, his lust for money and giantomania. The reason was rumors that the Beatles would reform. This, so raids, could definitely not save him, the rock’n’roll. Four teenagers who played in a dirty basement for their peers maybe already …
Only the recycling charade of the sex pistols-LP then left the air out of the punk balloon
London also seemed musically on the go. Nobody knew where to go. The one, heated by Patti Smith’s “Horses” and the controversial discourse about it, said that the future would be in poetry and romance. The others, assumed by the Ramones, expected a return to three-accorded minimalism. Again others found that the British pubrock opened great perspectives, you just have to harden, accelerate and radically rejuvenate it.
In the end they all got it right: “Anarchy in the UK” shocked the sex pistols, was wild and poisonous, made fleeting, yes destructive, but only a few loose threads together, for which nobody seemed to have been used in the music company of the mid-seventies … and woked them into punk rock, the noise attack with Safety-Pin-Chic from the “Sex” boutique and undertook all the frivolous nihilism with aggressive poetry: “I don’t know what i want but i know how to get it.”
“Anarchy in the UK” did not become a hit. Only a few thousand hipsters got the single in late autumn 1976, but what this pop genial explosion triggered was nothing less than a cultural avalanche that not only revolutionized rock’n’roll. The uprising lasted a few exciting months, exactly four brilliant singles. Only the recycling charade of the sex pistols-LP then left the air out of the punk balloon: never mind the Bollocks.