Read an excerpt from the ‘Introduction’:

Julien Temple, the earliest chronicler of the Sex Pistols, has described the first time he encountered them as being akin to witnessing an alien visitation: four figures, silhouetted against the light, making a racket of a noise inside a darkened warehouse that was located amid the ruins of London’s docklands – a site, in fact, that had been deemed irrelevant and redundant just a few years earlier. Johnny Rotten, the singer of this group, with his unusual spiky hair – which might have been dyed green, perhaps orange – was clad in a fuzzy striped mohair sweater and a pair of trousers that disobeyed the current fashion for denim flares that skirted the floor. He contorted himself into unnatural shapes.