... interview caused promoters to cancel 16 of the band's 19 tour dates amid newspaper headlines of "The Filth and the Fury" and "Never Mind the Morals or Standards, the Only Notes That Matter Come in Wads." Even Steve Jones" own mother bans him from their house. Without an album the band schedules a European tour, where they gain more popularity due to ... Sex Pistols" first album, "Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols," released in October of 1977 with tracks such as "Anarchy in the U.K." and "God Save the Queen" became a quick target for the British censors. It became the #1 a...

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... has helped punk-rock to stay the way it is and has for so long. It is not often played on the radio and most people do not enjoy the quick guitar rifts, heavy drums, and scratchy, fast vocals, but to many this is what punk-rock is and what it should remain to be. Punk-rock, like all music, is ... past time. This is a problem that many should consider before punk music in its true form is erased from everyone's minds, like an eraser sweeping across a chalkboard previously full of notes. The origin of this issue is still fresh and can be prevented now only if people educate themselves to ...

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