Sex Pistols

Formed in London in 1975 by manager Malcolm McLaren to promote his King's Road clothing boutique Sex, the band — vocalist John Lydon, guitarist Steve Jones, drummer Paul Cook, and bassist Glen Matlock — became the focal point of British punk within a year. Their profanity-laced live television appearance in December 1976 caused a national scandal, and the 1977 single 'God Save the Queen', released to coincide with the Queen's Silver Jubilee, was banned by the BBC. Their sole studio album Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols appeared in October 1977, and the band dissolved in January 1978 after a disastrous US tour.