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!

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Exploring Music History with Professor Robert Greenberg one Monday at a time. Every Monday Robert Greenberg explores some timely, perhaps intriguing and even, if we are lucky, salacious chunk of musical information relevant to that date, or to … whatever. If on (rare) occasion these features appear a tad irreverent, well, that’s okay: we would do well to remember that cultural icons do not create and make music but rather, people do, and people can do and say the darndest things.