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...debut was a tame, almost respectable happening. Johnny did not throw empty beer bottles at the audience. All he did was blow his nose a lot. Guitarist Steve Jones did not vomit, though in the past he has proved he has the stomach for it. Nor did Bassist Sid Vicious sputter forth more than a few four-letter words. Sid did manage to draw cheers when he removed his shirt and revealed the torso of a 90-lb. weakling. Both

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Sex Pistols Are Here | 1/16/1978 | See Source »

...Vicious and Rotten sported hairdos that looked as if they had been blow-dried in a wind tunnel or plugged into a preamp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Sex Pistols Are Here | 1/16/1978 | See Source »

...weeks ago, in fact, their entry into the U.S. had been temporarily denied-and four concerts canceled-because members of the group had minor criminal records. But no repro-vals were necessary at the Great South East Music Hall (capacity 500), which is located in an Atlanta shopping center. Vicious' worst offense offstage came from his penchant for flagrant free enterprise. He cheekily charged reporters for interviews, asking what he thought the traffic would bear but settling for as little...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Sex Pistols Are Here | 1/16/1978 | See Source »

...prisoner of Marxism and hate, he finally found peace when he saw the face of Jesus in the full moon over Cannes. Cleaver was later converted by a prison "God squad." In Will You Die for Me? (Revell), due in April, Charles ("Tex") Watson, leader of the vicious Tate-LaBianca murders, tells how he supplanted Charles Manson with Jesus Christ. Watson, a mandatory lifer, now preaches three times a month and teaches a weekly class for newly converted convicts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Back to that Oldtime Religion | 12/26/1977 | See Source »

...Avellini, but such heroics are generally off-limits to him. "I never go into the interior line-that's no-no land. Venture into there at my size and I'm taking a chance with my life. I also stay out of the way of those vicious pulling guards. When one of them makes contact, I go down low like a bulldog after a larger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Runts in the Big League | 12/5/1977 | See Source »

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