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Originally Posted by William_the_Bloody
To accuse the Sex Pistols of having elements of "right wing" national socialist aspects to their music is a very serious allegation, can you please cite your sources & their context. (ie what was the context of Sid wearing a swastika? What elements of racism in their lyrics? Are you referring to Belsen was a gas?)
Considering that it was the 1970's and many members & affiliates of the band hung out in reggae and gay & lesbian clubs. I have reason to doubt this accusation, thank you.
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There is nothing serious about it whatsoever and I never stated that they had these elements in their actual music, we're just talking about a punk band that shocked the world back in the late 1970s and used what they could to promote themselves! If you insist on knowing, well I actually used to have a photo-feature book that came out in the 1980s, which actually showed quite a few racist aspects linked with bands such as the Sex Pistols, mostly in terms of imagery and those that followed the band. I also remember a radio interview back in the 1980s, where a journalist had talked about right-wing propoganda being linked with punk bands like the Sex Pistols back at that time. I doubt the band were genuine right-wingers at all and just used neo-Nazi material for shock value, but that doesn't change the fact that a section of their fanbase were right-wingers and I remember the scene here at the time.