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The Sex Pistols, of course, are incomprehensible without a glance at the two-track uniformity of mid-to-late 1970s music: lugubrious, 11-minute-long navel-gazing guitar dirges by the Eagles and Jackson Browne on one hand; ad jingles like "Undercover Angel" and "Heartbeat--It's a Love Beat" on the other.
Every family has a gun, and none of your sissy American pistols; these are assault rifles.
This must have been said before, but if someone named Jon Savage wasn't born to write about the Sex Pistols, I don't know who was.)
Pedant's corner: Roberts might also have pointed out that the guns used in the Olympic pentathlon are air pistols, not exactly at the top of Sarah Brady's wish list of firearms to ban.
Did all of the music, personalities, and ideas that first captivated me--the Sex Pistols, Grandmaster Flash, Public Enemy--do nothing but recycle Miller's paradigms?