Sex Pistols: Poison in the Machine

The Sex Pistols reimagined as manager Malcolm McLaren’s explosive, world-shaking art experiment.

The explosive story of the Sex Pistols is now so familiar that the essence of what they represented has been lost in a fog of nostalgia and rock ’n’ roll cliché. In 1976, the rise of the Sex Pistols was regarded in apocalyptic terms, and the punks as visitors from an unwanted future bringing chaos and confusion. In this book, John Scanlan considers the Sex Pistols as the first successful art pro...