On June 4, 1976, the Sex Pistols took the stage at Manchester's Lesser Free Trade Hall in England. At the time, the band had existed for only a few months and punk rock was still largely an underground movement. But the audience that night would go on to shape popular music for decades to come.
According to a History Channel retrospective, only around 40 people attended the concert. Yet among those in the crowd were future members of Buzzcocks, Joy Division, The Smiths and The Fall, along with future Factory Records founder Tony Wilson. Those artists and organizations would become central figures in punk, post-punk, alternative rock and indie music throughout the late 1970s and 1980s.
Looking back on the experience years later, Devoto told author David Nolan, "I know that it changed my life beyond a whole roomful of shadows of doubt. Forever."
Future Smiths frontman Morrissey was also in attendance, as was Mark E. Smith, who would go on to found The Fall. Meanwhile, television presenter Wilson was inspired to help create Factory Records, the label that later launched Joy Division and New Order while helping establish Manchester as one of the most important music cities in the world.
Steve Diggle of Buzzcocks summed up the show's legacy by saying: "That was the day the punk rock atom was split, no doubt about it. It was amazing to see. That's where it exploded from, it changed Manchester and it changed the world."
Their 1977 album Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols became a landmark release, while songs such as "Anarchy in the U.K." and "God Save the Queen" helped make them one of the most controversial and influential bands of their era. Today, the group's impact on punk, alternative rock and independent music remains impossible to ignore.
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