The Sex Pistols are an English punk rock band that formed in London in
1975. They are responsible for initiating the punk movement in the
United Kingdom and inspiring many later punk and alternative rock
musicians. Although their initial career lasted just two-and-a-half
years and produced only four singles and one studio album, Never Mind
the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols, they are regarded as one of the
most influential acts in the history of popular music. The Sex Pistols
originally comprised vocalist Johnny Rotten, guitarist Steve Jones,
drummer Paul Cook and bassist Glen Matlock. Matlock was replaced by Sid
Vicious in early 1977. Under the management of impresario Malcolm
McLaren, the band created controversies which captivated Britain. Their
concerts repeatedly faced difficulties with organisers and authorities,
and public appearances often ended in mayhem. Their 1977 single "God
Save the Queen", attacking Britons' social conformity and deference to
the crown, precipitated the "last and greatest outbreak of pop-based
moral pandemonium". In January 1978, at the end of a turbulent US tour,
Rotten left the band and announced its breakup. Over the next several
months, the three other band members recorded songs for McLaren's film
version of the Sex Pistols' story, The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle.
Vicious died of a heroin overdose in February 1979. In 1996, Rotten,
Jones, Cook and Matlock reunited for the Filthy Lucre Tour; since 2002,
they have staged further reunion shows and tours.
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Today's selected anniversaries:
553:
The Second Council of Constantinople, considered by many Christian
churches to have been the fifth Christian Ecumenical Council, began to
discuss the topics of Nestorianism and Origenism, among others.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Council_of_Constantinople>
1789:
The Estates-General convened in Versailles to discuss a financial
crisis in France, triggering a series of events that led to the French
Revolution.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estates-General_of_1789>
1891:
New York City's Carnegie Hall, built by philanthropist Andrew Carnegie,
officially opened with a concert conducted by Russian composer Pyotr
Ilyich Tchaikovsky.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnegie_Hall>
1949:
Ten European countries signed the Treaty of London, creating the
Council of Europe , today one of the oldest international organisations
working for European integration.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_of_Europe>
1994:
Armenia and Azerbaijan signed the Bishkek Protocol, a provisional
ceasefire treaty to end hostilities in the Nagorno-Karabakh War, with
both sides agreeing, among others, to grant a wide-ranging autonomy to
the Nagorno-Karabakh region.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nagorno-Karabakh_War>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
bogus (adj):
1. Counterfeit or fake; not genuine.
2. Undesirable or harmful.
3. Incorrect, useless, or broken
<http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bogus>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Is it an excellence in your love that it can love only the
extraordinary, the rare? If it were love’s merit to love the
extraordinary, then God would be — if I dare say so — perplexed, for to
Him the extraordinary does not exist at all. The merit of being able to
love only the extraordinary is therefore more like an accusation, not
against the extraordinary nor against love, but against the love which
can love only the extraordinary. Perfection in the object is not
perfection in the love. Erotic love is determined by the object;
friendship is determined by the object; only love of one’s neighbor is
determined by love. Therefore genuine love is recognizable by this,
that its object is without any of the more definite qualifications of
difference, which means that this love is recognizable only by love.
--Søren Kierkegaard
<http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/S%C3%B8ren_Kierkegaard>
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