A small art-school performance in London on Nov. 6, 1975, helped set the stage for a major upheaval in popular music. The Sex Pistols played their first show at St. Martin's School of Art, beginning a performing career that would make them central figures in British punk. The significance was not a polished debut or an immediate commercial breakthrough. It was the arrival of a band whose confrontational approach helped challenge assumptions abou…
On November 6, 1975, the Sex Pistols gave their first concert, at the Saint Martins School of Art, a university in London. Twenty chaotic minutes were enough for the group to begin to follow a path that culminated in the punk explosion.