What is the importance of Sex Pistols?

The Sex Pistols are an icon for punk music. The Ramones and the Sex Pistols; these bands are the ones who really started the punk movement. The bands themselves were just playing rock and roll or whatever they thought was good music. The Ramones first record is especially a good record. That’s what ignited the English punk music scene. But the Sex Pistols and The Clash really kind of became poster boys for the loud punk rock in the UK and subsequently in the US. The Sex Pistols and the Ramones became like the Beatles and the Stones or something like that. It was something that inspired countless youth in the late 70s and 80s to play music. And that would be the main reason you have independent labels. I mean there were independent labels in the 40s and 50s, but the huge upturn in young people in the whole 80s underground Indy stuff is largely due the Ramones and Sex Pistols. So it’s a nice little bit of legacy. I think the Ramones are way better and I think the Sex Pistols aren’t as good, but it doesn’t matter because history will show that they are a major import. The bass player Sid Vicious died of a heroin overdose and they basically just imploded on themselves, it became a huge media spectacle and they just self destructed basically after one record. They didn’t get very far.