Sex Drugs And Rock N Roll Research Paper

Sex, drugs, and rock n’ roll. This phrase has long been used to summarize the rock lifestyle, but given the great diversity of rock music many would agree that this concept is most prevalent in the subgenre known as punk. Punk was gritty, foul, arrogant and snotty, nothing it said had meaning outside of what could be said with a mere finger gesture…or was it? In truth punk was as diverse in its nature as rock was as a whole. It is because of this that so many argue about when exactly the punk scene started, but many agree that it was born right here in the states, out of small town garages from boys and girls sick of the mundane spiff the radio played. This, is their story.
In the late 60s, shortly after the Vietnam War had begun, the hippy movement had started. People who united against the war, people who went to parties, Woodstock, took LSD and made love in the streets, it is these people many say were the first of the punks. While they grooved instead of thrashed, these peace loving boys and girls were rebelling. This rebellious mentality is what punk is, it is “the fight against complacency,” Don Lette, punk: attitude. But punk is in its own sense,
For this was the time the most notorious punk band made its début on the streets of London. The Sex Pistols, one of the rudest, obnoxious, vile, and rebellious bands had arrived. Led by front man Johnny Rotten, the band quickly made a place for itself in music history. The Sex Pistols only existed for six months, but what made them last was the fact that they themselves were so terrible. They swore (not only at shows but on TV as well), sniffed glue, stuck safety pins in places they were never meant to go, wrote songs that broke nearly every taboo, all the while inspiring kids to go out and make music themselves. But despite it all the reason the band broke up was because of the classic Yoko effect, only with the twist of hard