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America Learns to Loathe the Pistols

Michael Watts, Melody Maker, 21 January 1978

Michael Watts reports on the Memphis hotel set-up (was it the CIA?); the two suspicious cowboys (were they big-time dope dealers?); the sociologists' poll (where was the working-class audience?) and other mysteries as the Sex Pistols brawled their way across the South

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