On this day in 1976 occurred the Sex Pistols’ poorly attended but highly influential performance at the Lesser Free Trade Hall in Manchester. Here they are performing “Anarchy in the U.K.”
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Ed Kilgore, a Monthly contributing editor, is a columnist for the Daily Intelligencer, New York magazine’s politics blog, and the managing editor for the Democratic Strategist.
