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"In November 1977, Warner Bros. secured the rights to release the album Never Mind The Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols in America. The following January, the Sex Pistols--already the ""scourge"" of Britain--were discovered by unsuspecting American audiences in an infamous U.S. tour, accompanied by sensational media coverage and moral panic. Malcolm McLaren, the band's manager, eschewed the established rock 'n' roll markets of New York and Los Angeles in favor of off-the-radar venues in Memphis, San Antonio and Baton Rouge, sowing the seeds for countercultural clashes in the conservative South. Two weeks later the band split up but punk had invaded mainstream American culture. Drawing on input from fans, the author chronicles the Pistols' first and only U.S. tour and separates fact from fallacy in the mythology surrounding those 12 days of mayhem."

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The text recounts the first and only US tour that the Sex Pistols ever embarked upon, recounting the clamor and confrontations along the way. The author interviews audience members and quotes newspapers of the day to give the reader a sense of the atmosphere in the southern US in 1978. --ProtoView.

For a fascinating and thought-provoking insight into the inner workings of the band and why everything had fallen apart by the time they reached San Francisco, look no further than this enthusiastic piece on how British punk rock ethics clashed with American culture more than forty years ago. - Eternal Terror

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Mick O’Shea spent ten years in the finance industry before making the switch from numbers to letters on a full-time basis in 2008. Having started out penning magazine articles, he now has 16 books published to date with four new titles set for publication in 2018. He lives in Surrey, United Kingdom.

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