The Sex Pistols and Friends: Finsbury Park, London
Charles Shaar Murray, MOJO, August 1996
IS THERE ANYTHING WHICH THE RECONSTITUTED Sex Pistols – freeze-dried, just add money – could possibly have done at their "comeback" show which would have risked blowing their legend? Nothing at all: every possible outcome would have somehow fitted.
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