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Topic: Sex Pistols

John Lydon, aka Johnny Rotten | Bust of Zeno of Citium | Bust of Emperor Marcus Aurelius (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

The stoics and the Sex Pistols

Megan Volpert
The crowd watching a film of Queen Elizabeth II having tea with Paddington Bear on a big screen during the Platinum Party at the Palace staged in front of Buckingham Palace, London on Saturday June 4, 2022. (Victoria Jones/PA Images via Getty Images)

Our Elizabethan Age of pop culture

Melanie McFarland
Pistol (Miya Mizuno/FX)

Sex Pistols show's rock 'n' roll swindle

Melanie McFarland
John Lydon (AP/Brent N. Clarke)

Johnny Rotten tells the truth

Gary M. Kramer
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2017's music milestones

Annie Zaleski
(Da Capo Press)

Sex Pistols memoir

Marc Spitz
Leonardo DiCaprio in "The Wolf of Wall Street;" Arthur Miller (AP/Paramount Pictures)

Do bad times make great art?

Adam Langer
(MSO/Paul Heartfield)

King of the Punks looks at 60

Marc Spitz
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New York police escort Sid Vicious, shortly before he was charged with murder in the stabbing death of Nancy Spungen, at New York's Chelsea Hotel, Oct. 13, 1978. (AP)

Sid and Nancy: The final hours

Sherill Tippins

Pop anniversary madness

Eric R. Danton
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