Of the millions of albums which have been recorded, only 15 can make it into The Lucy Museum of Musicians who deserve entry to Lucy's Museum of Musician's and at number 8 we have Never Mind The Bollocks by The Sex Pistols (1977).
I was 8 years old when Johnny and his lot were in their pomp and safety pins, purple Mohican haircuts and flobbing at the teacher were frowned upon in Bramble Road First School so i had to wait until i was much older and all my friends were plastering posters of Duran Duran and Spandau Ballet on their bedroom walls before i came out of the record shop with the bright yellow Album Cover with a sticker saying 'Warning: This ALbum contains Explicit Lyrics' and thinking 'i f****ing hope so w....r'.
The songs were very much of their time and compared to some songs today, seem pretty mild except Bodies which apparently is based on a true story of what happened after a Sex Pistols gig one night when a female fan turned up with a present in a plastic bag for Johnny, the song makes it pretty clear exactly what she handed him.
Although they admit it now, Pretty Vacant never fooled me, the emphasis Johnny put on the second syllable of Va-CANT was obvious and although fans of the New York Dolls and The Damned like to argue that the Sex Pistols were not the first punk band actually, to me they were the grand-pappy of all the bands who's type of music that i like which followed, all kickstarted by this one album and the handful of singles from it so to quote Mr Rotten, 'Ah but now, And we don't care...va-CANT'.
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