Music History Monday: Pretty Much the Worst

On February 1, 1979, Sid Vicious was released on bail after having attacked Todd Smith (the brother of the singer Patti Smith) at a Skafish concert. Listening to/watching the punk band Sex Pistols (for example) perform their version of God Save the Queen offers us a full day’s supply of ugliness, inelegance, amateurism, incivility and banality. What a blessing!