The Myth of the Sex Pistol

David Bennan writes about music for the economist. A track like god save the queen was really sticking up two fingers to everything that was revered by polite society. My vision pistol is one of tethere's a new minny series airing this week called pistol, which adapts the band story into a costume drama. And its based on the memoir of gtarist steve jones. I kno what visions i wont at feo ain for the intention of destroying the old order. The problem with pistol is that at no point does it suggest any awareness of the possibility that the accepted narrative of punk might by now be part of the boring old order itself.