The Sex Pistols Invade America: The Fateful U.S. Tour, January 1978

by Mick O'Shea

Overview

In November 1977, Warner Bros. secured the rights to release the album Never Mind The Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols in America. The following January, the Sex Pistols--already the "scourge" of Britain--were discovered by unsuspecting American audiences in an infamous U.S. tour, accompanied by sensational media coverage and moral panic.

Malcolm McLaren, the band's manager, eschewed the established rock 'n' roll markets of New York and Los Angeles in favor of off-the-radar venues in Memphis, San Antonio and Baton Rouge, sowing the seeds for countercultural clashes in the conservative South. Two weeks later the band split up but punk had invaded mainstream American culture.

Drawing on input from fans, the author chronicles the Pistols' first and only U.S. tour and separates fact from fallacy in the mythology surrounding those 12 days of mayhem.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781476631844
Publisher:	McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers
Publication date:	08/03/2018
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	208
Sales rank:	330,497
File size:	9 MB
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Mick O’Shea spent ten years in the finance industry before making the switch from numbers to letters on a full-time basis in 2008. Having started out penning magazine articles, he now has 16 books published to date with four new titles set for publication in 2018. He lives in Surrey, United Kingdom.
Mick O'Shea spent ten years in the finance industry before making the switch from numbers to letters on a full-time basis in 2008. Having started out penning magazine articles, he now has 16 books published to date with four new titles set for publication in 2018. He lives in Surrey, United Kingdom.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
U.S. Tour Dates
Preface
Introduction
One. Sex Pistols Will Play
Two. Atlanta
Three. Memphis
Four. San Antonio
Five. Baton Rouge
Six. Dallas
Seven. Tulsa
Eight. San Francisco
Nine. Endgame
Ten. Aftermath
Chapter Notes
Bibliography
Index

Editorial Reviews

The text recounts the first and only US tour that the Sex Pistols ever embarked upon, recounting the clamor and confrontations along the way. The author interviews audience members and quotes newspapers of the day to give the reader a sense of the atmosphere in the southern US in 1978.”—ProtoView.

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