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"Don't look over your shoulder, but the Sex Pistols are coming": 40th Anniversary of their first review.

Paul Gorman, Paul Gorman Is, 12 February 2016

TODAY IS THE 40th anniversary of the gig at central London venue The Marquee by the Sex Pistols which generated their first substantial media coverage, a prescient 200-word review by Neil Spencer on page 31 of the February 21, 1976 issue of the New Musical Express.

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