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In case you hadn't noticed, the fat old buggers of the Sex Pistols are re-releasing 'God Save The Queen', and artist upon artist is queuing up to pay tribute and pretend they're going to buy thirty copies to get it in the charts etc etc.
It's the punk canon at work again. One year The Clash, the next the Sex Pistols, over and over, ad nauseum. Never mind the fact that Suicide had written their debut album half a decade before the Sex Pistols were a glint in Mad Malcolm's eyes. And while we're at it, let's ignore the undeniable truth that while the Sex Pistols might have kicked open a door for a lot of bands, most of those piling over the treshold were the kind of guests who'd shit in the wife's knicker drawer and nick the booze. The other half (Joy Division, Wire, The Fall and so on), said "thanks very much" and then proceded to create something far superior. We don't all go out and buy a coal-fired kitchen range because it inspired the Hotpoint hob now, do we?
So - and this is largely in the pages of NME - Klaxons have branded them "the most important band ever", Slash has had a witter, and Kasabian say "'God Save The Queen' is still relevant today, presumably because the fetish for retro rock cabbage keeps them in booze and ladies. Debbie Harry has chipped up too, and Tom Morello says "there'd be no Rage Against The Machine" without them.
