Ils n\u2019ont pas invent\u00e9 le punk rock, et ils n\u2019ont pas \u00e9t\u00e9 le premier groupe punk britannique \u00e0 se produire ou \u00e0 enregistrer, mais aucun groupe n\u2019a autant contribu\u00e9 \u00e0 faire du punk un ph\u00e9nom\u00e8ne culturel mondial que les Sex Pistols. En un peu plus de deux ans, leur succ\u00e8s de scandale les a propuls\u00e9s de l\u2019obscurit\u00e9 totale \u00e0 une infamie plan\u00e9taire : adul\u00e9s par les adeptes du punk rock, d\u00e9test\u00e9s par presque tout le reste de la population, et victimes de poursuites judiciaires comme d\u2019attaques de justiciers autoproclam\u00e9s en Angleterre.
Musicalement, les Sex Pistols n\u2019ont rien r\u00e9volutionn\u00e9 formellement, mais leur rock simple et brut \u00e9tait port\u00e9 par une puissance et une agressivit\u00e9 presque in\u00e9dites au milieu des ann\u00e9es 1970. Le chant f\u00e9roce et narquois de Johnny Rotten, tout comme ses paroles accusatrices et provocantes, ont renvers\u00e9 les attentes quant \u00e0 ce qu\u2019un leader de groupe rock devait \u00eatre ou incarner.
M\u00eame si les m\u00e9dias les traitaient en parias, la force de leur musique et de leur image a r\u00e9sonn\u00e9 aupr\u00e8s d\u2019un public en qu\u00eate d\u2019alternatives aux sonorit\u00e9s prog ou soft rock alors dominantes. Ce choc a d\u00e9clench\u00e9 une r\u00e9volution dont les \u00e9chos se font encore sentir aujourd\u2019hui.
Leur seul album studio issu de leur formation originale, Never Mind the Bollocks, Here’s the Sex Pistols (1977), est un pilier du punk britannique. En 1980, Flogging a Dead Horse compile les singles fondateurs de leur r\u00e9putation. Filthy Lucre Live (1996), enregistr\u00e9 lors d\u2019un concert de reformation, est l\u2019un des rares albums live du groupe offrant une qualit\u00e9 sonore d\u00e9cente. Enfin, le coffret 76-77, paru en 2021, rassemble les sessions studio ant\u00e9rieures \u00e0 Never Mind the Bollocks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
They didn’t invent punk rock, and they weren’t the first British punk band to perform or record, but no band did more to turn punk into a global cultural phenomenon than the Sex Pistols. In just over two years, the group’s success de scandale took them from utter obscurity to global infamy, beloved by converts to punk rock, hated by nearly everyone else, and subject to legal and vigilante persecution in their native England.
The Sex Pistols’ music was not formally groundbreaking, yet their simple meat-and-potatoes rock was filled with a power and aggression that was all but unknown in the mid-’70s, and the ferocious, sneering vocals of Johnny Rotten (as well as his pointed, accusatory lyrics) upended all expectations of how a rock frontman should look or sound.
Even as the media treated them as pariahs, the potency of their music and their image spoke to an audience waiting for something different than the prog and soft rock sounds that ruled the charts in the 1970s, sparking a revolution that is still playing itself out.
The group’s only album from their original incarnation, 1977’s Never Mind the Bollocks Here’s the Sex Pistols, is a cornerstone of British punk, 1980’s Flogging a Dead Horse collected the original singles that earned them their reputation, 1996’s Filthy Lucre Live, recorded at a reunion concert, is that rare Sex Pistols live album with decent fidelity, and 2021’s 76-77 is a box set that collects the band’s pre-Never Mind the Bollocks studio sessions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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