Sex Pistols

[[File:Sid vicious madrid.jpg|thumb|Graffiti of Vicious, Madrid]]

[[File:Sid vicious madrid.jpg|thumb|Graffiti of Vicious, Madrid]]

According to the music journalist Ira Robbin, "the Pistols and ... McLaren challenged every aspect and precept of modern music-making, thereby inspiring countless groups to follow their cue onto stages around the world."{{sfn|Robbins|1991|p=585}} Critic Toby Creswell locates the primary source of inspiration somewhat differently. Noting that "[i]mage to the contrary, the Pistols were very serious about music", Creswell wrote that "essentially, the Sex Pistols reinforced what the garage bands of the '60s had demonstrated—you don't need technique to make rock & roll. In a time when music had been increasingly complicated and defanged, the Sex Pistols' generational shift caused a real revolution."{{sfn|Creswell|2006|p=735}}

According to the music journalist Ira Robbins, "the Pistols and ... McLaren challenged every aspect and precept of modern music-making, thereby inspiring countless groups to follow their cue onto stages around the world."{{sfn|Robbins|1991|p=585}} Critic Toby Creswell locates the primary source of inspiration somewhat differently. Noting that "[i]mage to the contrary, the Pistols were very serious about music", Creswell wrote that "essentially, the Sex Pistols reinforced what the garage bands of the '60s had demonstrated—you don't need technique to make rock & roll. In a time when music had been increasingly complicated and defanged, the Sex Pistols' generational shift caused a real revolution."{{sfn|Creswell|2006|p=735}}

Their cultural influence is evident in other media. Reid's work for the band is regarded as among the most important graphic design of the 1970s and still influences the field in the 21st century.{{sfn|Raimes|Bhaskaran|Renow-Clarke|2007|p=164}}{{sfn|Reid|2004|pp=46–48}} Aged twenty-one, Vicious was already a "t-shirt-selling icon".{{sfn|Strongman|2008|p=235}} While the manner of his death signified for many the inevitable failure of punk's social ambitions, it cemented his image as an archetype of doomed youth.{{sfn|Savage|1992|p=530}} British [[punk fashion]], still widely influential, is now customarily credited to Westwood and McLaren; as Johnny Rotten, Lydon had a lasting effect as well, especially through his [[bricolage]] approach to personal style: he would wear a [[teddy boy|ted]] style velvet collared drape jacket, large pin-stripe pegs, a pin-collar Wemblex customised into an Anarchy shirt and [[brothel creepers]].{{sfn|Douglas|1999|pp=188–189}}{{sfn|Savage|1992|p=72}} [[Christopher Nolan]], director of the [[Batman]] movie ''[[The Dark Knight]]'', has said that Rotten inspired his characterisation of [[Joker (The Dark Knight)|The Joker]].{{sfn|Bentley|2008}}

Their cultural influence is evident in other media. Reid's work for the band is regarded as among the most important graphic design of the 1970s and still influences the field in the 21st century.{{sfn|Raimes|Bhaskaran|Renow-Clarke|2007|p=164}}{{sfn|Reid|2004|pp=46–48}} Aged twenty-one, Vicious was already a "t-shirt-selling icon".{{sfn|Strongman|2008|p=235}} While the manner of his death signified for many the inevitable failure of punk's social ambitions, it cemented his image as an archetype of doomed youth.{{sfn|Savage|1992|p=530}} British [[punk fashion]], still widely influential, is now customarily credited to Westwood and McLaren; as Johnny Rotten, Lydon had a lasting effect as well, especially through his [[bricolage]] approach to personal style: he would wear a [[teddy boy|ted]] style velvet collared drape jacket, large pin-stripe pegs, a pin-collar Wemblex customised into an Anarchy shirt and [[brothel creepers]].{{sfn|Douglas|1999|pp=188–189}}{{sfn|Savage|1992|p=72}} [[Christopher Nolan]], director of the [[Batman]] movie ''[[The Dark Knight]]'', has said that Rotten inspired his characterisation of [[Joker (The Dark Knight)|The Joker]].{{sfn|Bentley|2008}}