POP-A-LOOZA! The Everlasting First: THE SEX PISTOLS

Each week, the pop culture website Pop-A-Looza shares some posts from my vast 'n' captivating Boppin' (Like The Hip Folks Do) archives. The latest shared post is my Everlasting First look back at how I became a fan of The Sex Pistols.

This tale of my introduction to punk rock in general and The Sex Pistols in particular has also been slightly re-written and expanded to serve as the "God Save The Queen" chapter in my book The Greatest Record Ever Made! (Volume 1). In fact, this extended excerpt of the book's opening chapters shows how the revamped Pistols piece will appear, and the context surrounding it. Further background material detailing my initial reaction to punk (and my subsequent embrace of it) can be seen in pieces about the rock magazines I was reading in the '70s, Circus and Rolling Stone, Phonograph Record Magazine, and Bomp! magazine (and I really need to get back and write the follow-up reminiscence about CREEM magazine), and in this lengthy recount of the music that fascinated me when I was in my late teens and early twenties, "Imagining/Remembering The Music That Played." The fascination itself manifested in my first rock journalism, an emeritus contribution to my high school literary magazine when I was a freshman in college at the end of the Fall 1977 semester.

"God Save The Queen" will also be the subject of next week's Greatest Record Ever Made! video rant. But first, you can read all about the history of no future, at least from my POV. My discovery of The Sex Pistols is the latest Boppin' Pop-A-Looza.

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