Event · 1978-01-14 · London [51.51, -0.13]
Sex Pistols disband (1978)
The cited source dates the end of the Sex Pistols to 14 January 1978, when the band fell apart during a turbulent American tour. The collapse closed the most explosive chapter of British punk barely two years after it began. Their breakup left the movement without its most notorious lightning rod.
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- MusicBrainz: Sex PistolsMusicBrainz
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The Sex Pistols' end came not in London but on a turbulent United States tour, where the band fell apart in January 1978 according to the cited source. The transatlantic collapse mirrored the New York roots that had helped ignite the movement.