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Originally Posted by elphenor
I don't understand why people think it's a knock against Sex Pistols that he put them together
is it because fashion is supposed to be ghey or something
there's no complaints about VU being put together by Andy Warhol
plus they could hardly go a year without getting banned from everywhere and then dissolving
if it was a marketing stunt it'd be the worst one you've ever heard
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Neither groups were necessarily "put together" by them; they were more like collaborators, using each other's work to promote each other's work. The Pistols, on the other hand, are more intertwined with McClaren than the VU were with Warhol thanks to the Pistols' short time span of existence and the sheer emphasis placed on the fashion, the commodification of the punk aesthetic.
And I wouldn't say that making headline news, topping the charts, and making coin was a failed experiment.