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Whether John Lydon likes it or not, Sex Pistols' Download set proves the true spirit of punk still lives large

Sex Pistols and Frank Carter shake off a rocky start to bring some proper punk rock to Download

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Watch Sex Pistols and Primal Scream form an impromptu supergroup while rehearsing in the same building

Ladies and gentlemen, for one night only, please welcome to the stage... Sex Scream!

Louder

“I think John always thought it was me, Steve, and Paul against him, but it wasn’t quite like that”: Glen Matlock opens up about Sid Vicious replacing him in the Sex Pistols to become one of punk's most iconic figures

Vicious’ bad-boy image may have underpinned the band’s legacy, but Matlock insists he’s no shrinking violet either

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'I never stop writing!' John Lydon confirms new Public Image Ltd album is on the way

Sex Pistols legend John Lydon has revealed a new Public Image Ltd album will be written while the band are on tour this summer.

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Sex Pistols rocker John Lydon brands Donald Trump a ‘breath of fresh air’

Doubling down on his support for the controversial US president, Sex Pistols rocker John Lydon has branded Donald Trump a “breath of fresh air”.

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Never mind the bifocals – eyewear shop rebrands after Sex Pistols legal row

The former Spex Pistols shop has changed its name to Land O’Spex.

Evening Standard

Punk legends the Sex Pistols featuring Frank Carter add dates to North American tour

"Fingers crossed, no bottles or pigs' hooves"

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Iggy Pop, Sex Pistols, The Damned, Melvins, Jack White, Gorilla Biscuits among artists confirmed for new US punk rock festival

Some of punk and hardcore's most iconic bands will play CBGB festival in Brooklyn, New York on September 27

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Blink-182, Weezer, Green Day, Sex Pistols, Knocked Loose, The Beach Boys and more to play Riot Fest 2025

Jack White, Dropkick Murphys, Alkaline Trio, The Pogues and more also set for Chicago weekender

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"John’s always been super opinionated. It doesn’t bother me." Billy Idol laughs off John Lydon's criticism of his work with Steve Jones and Paul Cook in Generation Sex, gives a thumbs up to the new Sex Pistols line-up

Billy Idol is having far too much fun to worry about John Lydon's sniping

Louder

"Abba were in matching white fur coats, looking like polar bears. Sid went running over. ‘Abba!’ Then he vomited. They were horrified." John Lydon on the day Abba met the Sex Pistols

The Sex Pistols were huge fans of Abba. Abba may not have been huge fans of the Sex Pistols

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"Lots of my records melted in the blaze": John Lydon lost part of his vinyl collection after his kitchen was accidentally set on fire - right after his insurance was cancelled

The former Sex Pistol hates shortbread, but loves toffees and biscuit tins

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"I am the Pistols, and they’re not.” John Lydon is getting ever more salty about the success and acclaim currently being enjoyed by his revitalised former Sex Pistols bandmates

For a man who supposedly moved on from the Sex Pistols decades ago, John Lydon isn't half spending a lot of time talking about the Sex Pistols

Louder

John Lydon says he will never return to ‘woke’ Sex Pistols

The singer hit out at his previous band’s ‘dirty deeds’

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"Touring Australia with the Sex Pistols was horrendous. Seeing the audience doing Nazi salutes really wore me down, and Johnny Rotten didn’t say anything." Skunk Anansie's Skin recalls "violent" 1996 tour with the Sex Pistols

For Britrock stars Skunk Anansie, joining the Sex Pistols Filthy Lucre reunion tour was one of the worst experiences of their lives

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"I got Bowie’s microphone with his lipstick on it!" Sex Pistols' Steve Jones on stealing David Bowie's musical equipment from a London stage on the night before the final Ziggy Stardust performance

Before he became the guitarist for the Sex Pistols, Steve Jones was an accomplished thief, as David Bowie was to discover to his cost

The Independent UK

Sex Pistols star once confessed to stealing from David Bowie: ‘He thought it was funny’

‘I was like the Phantom of Hammersmith Odeon,’ musician said

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In Pictures: The week in Culture

If a picture paints a thousand words... Here’s all you need to know or may have missed about this past week in Culture (24-28 March 2025).

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"Everybody needs this band right now. America is screaming out for a band like the Sex Pistols." Sex Pistols, with Frank Carter, announce first North American tour in over two decades, starting at a venue where they had pig hooves thrown at them in 1978

America, prepare yourselves for the return of the world's greatest punk band

Evening Standard

Sex Pistols at the Royal Albert Hall review: 'excitement threatening to explode'

4/5 The Teenage Cancer Trust gigs kick off with Sex Pistols storming the venerable Hall with Frank Carter replacing John Lydon up top

The Independent UK

AP PHOTOS: China's evolving punk scene draws a new generation of fans

Young fans, some sporting spiky mohawks, slam-danced and stage-dived as the music blasted into the night. One wore a metal-studded jacket with what looked like vintage Sex Pistols buttons.

Louder

“It’s a pleasure and a privilege to be here with these legends tonight.” Frank Carter leads the Sex Pistols for 'secret' celebratory return to London's iconic 100 Club

Billed as 'The SPOTS', punk legends thrill fans old and new at legendary London club that helped birth punk

The Guardian - UK

‘Johnny Rotten tore my record off the deck’: the superfan at the centre of disco and punk

Alan Jones somehow straddled the riotous noise of the Sex Pistols, the fetishism of Vivienne Westwood and the hedonism of disco and gay clubs. A new book tells his story

The Independent UK

Sex Pistols recall Vietnam vets with cattle prods hired to keep them in line on tour

The infamously fraught American tour concluded with John Lydon announcing the band’s break-up

Louder

“The audience was throwing everything from bottles to rats to pig’s ears at the stage." The Sex Pistols look back on their wild, dangerously out-of-control and ultimately doomed first US tour

"We were thrown into the lion’s den and it was a pretty dark time."

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