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i saw a program on the tele the other nite that took the whole history of 60s and 70s music. one style after the other and played a song from each style. it was interesting to see how one genre influenced the next. this can be studied and shown. it is the true for any history of art. rock and roll is not dead , it lives on for all who listen to it, as well as it gave birth to a variety of forms which followed it.
rock on.
Johnny Rotten, the lead singer and some would say brains behind the Sex Pistols, said that he wanted to kill rock. In his time it had become another commercial product that had become meaningless through repetition and dilution of context. It was another pointless institution, with gates guarded by the record industry.
That’s why when he was drafted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, he refused to be in it, because it was the same tired rock n roll circlejerk that he’d been disdainful of his entire career.
Maybe he didn’t kill the popular conception of rock. But the energy he brought into destroying the popular notions of what was rebellious, and the desire to do it himself even though he wasn’t even good at it, inspired SO MANY people who then went on to form their own punk bands. And most of these people are the ones we still recognize as “rock” artists; the Lemonheads, the Descendents, the Buzzcocks, Joy Division, and Morrissey.
Sasho, Oasis too was reportedly inspired by the Sex Pistols.
I love Johnny Rotten and actually count him as one of the thinkers who takes me to a higher existence, watch him talk about killing rock:
“The thing that gets me, is in Rock’n'roll you own your sexuality. In pop music you say ‘You can do what you want to me.’ Rock’n'roll says ‘I’m gonna do what I want to YOU.’” – Joan Jett
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