Pepper??™s
Lonely Hearts Club Band, the Beatles??™ eighth album
from 1967, which introduced the casual listening crowd
to the edgy sounds of experimental and psychedelic
music that were creeping about the London underground
at the time. Without Sgt. Pepper, it??™s safe to say that there
wouldn??™t have been an audience for Pink Floyd outside of
a few dank basements in Canterbury and the Bohemian
clubs of central London.
Without a larger audience for Pink Floyd, there wouldn??™t
have been the increasingly bloated, musically suspect
Pink Floyd world tours of the 1970s.
Without those, there wouldn??™t have been anything to
turn ordinary John Lydon into the disaffected, snarling,
I-Hate-Pink-Floyd-T-shirt-wearing Johnny Rotten.
Without Johnny Rotten, there wouldn??™t have been the
Sex Pistols, and without the Sex Pistols, there wouldn??™t
have been punk rock.
Without punk rock, there wouldn??™t have been new wave,
post-punk, college rock, alternative rock, pop punk, emo,
and on and on and on and on, and we??™d all be listening to
Lawrence Welk and Barbara Streisand.
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