Instant Messenger : Sejarah Dan Perkembanganya !!!

Instant Messenger : Sejarah dan Perkembangannya

Kemajuan teknologi informasi semakin memudahkan kita berkomunikasi. Kini, kita bisa berkomunikasi secara global, menembus batas-batas geografis dan politis, dengan sangat mudah dan murah. Tidak hanya komunikasi dengan teks (chat), namun juga komunikasi dengan suara (voice chat) dan bahkan komunikasi dengan video (video chat). Hanya dengan berbekal sambungan internet, headset, bermikrofon, dan webcam, Anda bisa melakukan semua bentuk komunikasi tersebut. Sungguh mudah dan luar biasa.

Pengirim pesan instan (biasanya disebut dengan IM atau Instant Messenger) merupakan perangkat lunak yang memfasilitasi pengiriman pesan singkat (instant messaging), suatu bentuk komunikasi secara langsung antara dua orang atau lebih menggunakan teks yang diketik. Teks dikirim melalui komputer yang terhubung melalui sebuah jaringan, misalnya Internet. Setelah penggunaan e-mail yang mengubah cara orang berkomunikasi dari cara konvensional untuk mengirimkan surat, teknologi pengiriman pesan singkat (instant messaging) diciptakan untuk menutupi kelemahan e-mail yang terkadang kurang cepat dan tidak real-time.

• Sejarah Instant Messenger (IM)

Aplikasi Instant Messenger mulai ada sejak 1970

dalam sistem operasi multi-user seperti UNIX, awalnya untuk memudahkan komunikasi antar pengguna mesin yang sama, kemudian dalam suatu jaringan lokal, dan setelah itu antar internet. Beberapa dari mereka menggunakan peer-to-peer protokol di saat yang lain memerlukan peer sebagai penghubung ke suatu server. Pada akhir pertengahan tahun 1980 sampai awal 1990, layanan online Qantum link untuk komputer Commodore 64 menawarkan pesan user-to-user antar costumer dan ini mereka sebut ”on-line messages” (OLM). Quantum link semakin dikenal dalam beberapa aplikasi yang menyerupainya, seperti America Online yang menawarkkan produk dengan nama ”AOL Instant Messages” (AIM).

Seiring perkembangannya Quantum Link menggabungkan sebuah komodor 64 menggunakan komodor PETSCII text-graphics. Dalam hal ini layanan yang disediakan menyajikan beberapa pilihan yang bisa dijadikan bahan pertimbangan sejenis GUI walauun lebih primitif dibanding UNIX berikutnya, windows, dan macintosh yang berdasar pada Program Instant Messenger GUI. Modern GUI-based messaging mulai berakhir pada 1990-an digantikan dengan ICQ (1996) dan AOL Instant Messenger (AIM, 1997).

Beberapa tahun kemudian AOL memperoleh penghargaan dua hak patent dari U.S. patent office. Meanwhile, sementara perusahaan lain mengembangkan aplikasi mereka sendiri (Yahoo, MSN, Excite, Ubique, IBM) yang masing-masing memiliki protokol kepemilikan dan client sendiri.

Pada tahun 2000, sebuah aplikasi open-source dan protokol open standards-based yang disebut jabber diluncurkan, jabber dalam hal ini berperan sebagai gateway untuk protokol IM lainnya, hal ini cukup mengurangi kebutuhan berbagai client. Modern multi-protocol clients seperti Gaim, Trillian, Adium dan Miranda dapat menggunakan beberapa dari protokol IM tanpa memerlukan server gateway. Bahkan baru-baru ini, beberapa layanan instant Messenger memulai untuk menyediakan layanan video conference, Voice Over IP (VoIP) dan web conferencing services.

• Perkembangan IM

Perkembangan pengirim pesan instan berbasis GUI diawali ketika mulai maraknya orang menggunakan teknologi ada awal tahun 1990 ketika banyak orang mulai meluangkan waktu untuk mengakses Internet. E-mail merupakan perkembangan komunikasi internet yang berkembang pesat pada saat itu, namun seiring dengan bertambahnya kebutuhan, e-mail dirasakan kurang cepat dalam mengirimkan pesan dan tidak dapat diketahui apakah orang yang dikirimi pesan melalui e-mail juga sedang daring dan membalas pesan secara cepat. Kebutuhan tersebut mendorong para pengembang perangkat lunak menciptakan sebuah program chat room, di mana suatu grup atau perorangan dapat melihat serta mengirimkan pesan kepada sertiap orang yang ada pada room tersebut. Aplikasi ini dimulai ketika penyedia jasa daring Quantum Link (lebih dikenal dengan nama American Online) menawarkan fitur untuk dapat saling berkirim pesan dengan sesama pengguna komputer yang sedang daring. Penerapan pengiriman pesan instan ini memiliki dasar yang tidak jauh berbeda, yaitu sebuah chat room yang ditujukan untuk dua orang.

Seiring dengan perkembangannya, pengiriman pesan instan ini mulai meledak di Internet pada November 1996 saat Mirabilis memperkenalkan ICQ yang merupakan sebuah program pengirim pesan instan gratis, dan diikuti oleh AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) pada tahun 1997. AOL kemudian mengakuisisi Mirabilis. Penggunaan pengirim pesan instan kemudian berkembang dari hanya bisa diakses melalui komputer menjadi dapat diakses juga melalui telepon genggam sehinggal memungkinkan para penggunanya mengakses layanan ini kapan saja dan di mana saja.

Instant messaging kini tengah berkembang sehingga tidak hanya sebatas teks. Tahun 1996, sebuah perusahaan Israel yang tak begitu terkenal menyusun sebuah perangkat lunak, yang kemudian segara menjadi program yang paling banyak di-download di web, dan memicu revolusi komunikasi dunia. Teknologi itu memungkinkan dua orang di mana pun bisa saling mengetikkan pesan secara real time. Perangkat lunak ICQ sebagai purwarupa sistem instant messaging (IM), telah digunakan 11 juta orang dalam waktu 2 tahun. Teknologi ini menarik perhatian raksasa internet America Online, yang langsung membelinya seharga US$287 juta tahun 1998. Sejak saat itu, puluhan perusahaan telah mengembangkan produk semacam, yang biasanya bisa diperoleh secara gratis. “Kalau Anda tinggal di Eropa, atau Amerika, dan Anda memiliki teman, atau keluarga di berbagai penjuru dunia, lalu Anda menggunakan telepon, itu tentu mahal,” ujar Jonathan Roubini, pengamat teknologi di PC Magazine. “Keunggulan IM adalah bahwa setiap orang yang memiliki komputer bisa online begitu saja, dan ngobrol dengan keluarga, teman, atau sejawat di seluruh dunia.”Instant Messaging memiliki pengguna sangat banyak di seluruh dunia. AOL saja mengirim 2 miliar pesan per hari, sedangkan perangkat lunak IM tetap beroperasi di komputer desktop rata-rata enam 6 jam per hari. Tidak begitu mengherankan jika semua perusahaan besar baru-baru ini mengumumkan telah menyempurnakan layanan IM mereka. Pasar IM sangat besar. Yahoo Messenger memperkirakan ada 19 juta pengguna di Amerika, sementara demografi pemakai berubah drastis dalam beberapa tahun ini.

• Survey Pengguna Instant Messenger :

• AIM : 53 juta pengguna aktif (Nielsen//NetRatings, Agustus 2005), 195 juta total pengguna.
• Windows Live Messenger atau MSN Messenger : 29 juta pengguna aktif (Nielsen//NetRatings, Agustus 2005), 155 juta total pengguna (April 2005).
• Jabber : 13,5 juta pengguna aktif (Osterman Research Agustus 2005), tidak dilakukan perhitungan dari penyelenggara jasa internet lainnya (diperkirakan lebih dari 7,5 juta pengguna, dengan total lebih dari 21 juta pengguna).
• Yahoo! Messenger : 21 juta pengguna aktif (September 2005).
• ICQ : 20 juta pengguna aktif di seluruh dunia, 400 juta total pengguna.
• QQ : 221 juta total pengguna.
• Skype : 7 juta pengguna aktif (Skype Numerology blog, Agustus 2006), 100 juta total pengguna (Skype, April 2006).
• Sametime : 15 juta pengguna aktif.
• Gadu-Gadu : 5.6 juta total pengguna (IT & Telecoms di Polandia, Juni 2006).
• MXit : 2 juta pengguna (sebagian besar di Afrika Selatan dan lebih dari 150.000 pengguna internasional) (Business Report, 19 Oktober 2006)
• Meebo : 0.67 juta total pengguna (Meeblog, 5 Oktober 2006)

• Camfrog : kurang lebih 70 ribu pengguna yang setiap hari Online ( Situs Camfrog, 2 Desember 2006 ) Ohhh My Hair  ^_^

• Bahaya Penggunaan IM

Program instant messenger (IM) yang tengah populer di kalangan pengguna internet tampaknya bakal jadi sasaran empuk virus-virus jenis worm. Setelah lama membidik program email, para pembuat virus worm tampaknya akan mulai membidik layanan IM.Demikian diberitakan Zdnet.com, Rabu (15/8/2001).

Akhir Juni 2001 lalu, sebuah virus worm bernama “Choke” melakukan serangan terhadap MSN messenger, jaringan IM milik Microsoft Corp. Sebulan sebelumnya, virus sejenis berkode W32/Hello juga menyerang jaringan yang sama.
Kalangan ahli keamanan komputer menilai kewaspadaan terhadap serangan semacam ini masih sangat kurang. Padahal bukannya tidak mungkin serangan virus worm akan menyerang jaringan IM yang lain, semisal AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) dan ICQ milik AOL Time Warner atau Yahoo Messenger milik Yahoo.

Kalangan pembuat virus saat ini tengah merancang sebuah virus worm yang dapat menyerang berbagai jenis jaringan IM, termasuk sistem pertukaran file peer-to-peer dan sistem wireless. Namun hingga saat ini memang belum ada jenis yang seeektif virus worm yang menyebar melalui program email semisal virus cinta, Anna Kournikova dan Melissa.
Chief Technology Officer (CTO) Privacy Foundation, Richard Smith, menegaskan, email saat ini masih merupakan wahana paling efektif untuk menyebarkan email. Namun kalangan ahli keamanan komputer mengingatkan, serangan masif virus worm melalui jaringan IM hanyalah soal waktu.

Saat ini puluhan juta user di internet telah menggunakan IM untuk melakukan komunikasi secara real time. Layanan ini diprediksi akan menjadi program paling populer di internet dalam waktu dekat.

• Fitur-fitur pada IM

Pengiriman pesan instan memiliki beberapa fitur dasar, di antaranya:

1. Instant messages: Mengirimkan pesan kepada orang yang sedang daring secara real time.
2. Chat: Menciptakan chat room atau ruang diskusi dengan beberapa orang.
3. Web links: Berbagi pranala mengenai situs web favorit.
4. Video: Berbagi video.
5. Images: Berbagi gambar.
6. Files: Berbagi berkas komputer.
7. Talk: Berfungsi seperti layaknya telepon.
8. Mobile capabilities: Mengirimkan pesan instan melalui telepon genggam.

• Aplikasi IM Terpopuler

Terdapat berbagai macam aplikasi dan layanan instant messenger (instant messaging software). Masing-masing tentu punya kelebihan dan kekurangannya masing-masing. Yang jelas, para penyedia instant messenger benar-benar bersaing dengan ketat antara satu dan yang lainnya, dalam segala hal mulai dari fasilitas dan fitur-fiturnya sampai dengan tampilannya. Kita sebagai pengguna, tinggal memilih mana yang kita suka.
Berikut ini beberapa instant messenger (IM) yang popular digunakan :

MSN Messenger (Windows Messenger)

Ini adalah IM yang dikeluarkan oleh Microsoft, yang didesain untuk dipasang pada Windows Operating System. Seiring dengan populernya Windows OS, messenger ini juga menjadi amat populer di seluruh dunia. Silakan unduh installer-nya (ada yang tersendiri dan ada yang terintegrasi dalam Windows Live Installer), lalu instal pada Windows Anda. Untuk bisa menggunakannya, silakan dapatkan terlebih dahulu akun Window Live Anda (@live.com atau @hotmail.com). MSN Messenger dapat didapat di http://msn.com.

Yahoo Messenger (YM)

Yahoo messenger dikeluarkan oleh Yahoo. Sangat populer di Indonesia. Untuk bisa menggunakannya, YM harus menggunakan Yahoo ID (akun di Yahoo) sebagai akun layanan. Untuk semakin menjadikannya lengkap, Yahoo juga menyediakan Chatrooms pada Yahoo Messenger.
Selain Instant Messaging, banyak fitur-fitur yang bisa didapat dari Yahoo Messenger ini diantaranya :

a. Contact, merupakan sebuah fitur yang memudahkan untuk mengingat siapa saja dan apa saja ID yang tersimpan di buku alamat.

b. Send File, merupakan fitur yang mendukung untuk mengirim file anda antar komputer via internet.

c. Call Computer, merupakan fitur yang memungkinkan untuk melakukanb percakapan antar komputer melalui jaringan internet dengan gratis. Walaupun fitur ini membutuhkan bandwith yang cukup besar tapi untuk kenyamanan berkomunikasi fitur ini cukup memuaskan.

d. Webcam, merupakan fitur yang juga membutuhkan bandwith yang besar, dengan fitur ini kita bias melakukan sharing camera secara real time, sehingga ketika melakukan chat/call, kita bisa saling melihat satu dengan yang lain.

e. Conference, merupakan sebuah fitur yang bisa membuat kita chating bersama atau biasanya bahasa disebut dengan meeting,

f. Audibles, merupakan aplikasi yang bisa mengirim animasi yang dilengkapi suara kepada lawan bicara kita.
g. Fasilitas lain yang tidak kalah menarik adalah kemampuan berkirim pesan melalui pesan singkat atau SMS ke nomor ponsel yang ada di Indonesia. Operator ponsel di Indonesia yang telah mendukung fasilitas pengiriman SMS dari Yahoo! Messenger adalah Telkomsel dan Excelcomindo. Dengan dukungan tersebut, Anda dapat mengirimkan pesan singkat dari komputer ke pengguna kartu Halo, Simpati, dan XL melalui Yahoo! Messenger. Jika pada saat pengiriman SMS dari YM ke ponsel tidak dikenai biaya, maka pada saat lawan bicara membalas dari ponsel ke YM ada biaya yang harus dibayar. Informasi biaya tersebut dapat Anda temukan di situs http://asia.mobile.yahoo.com. Fasilitas ini sering digunakan oleh pengguna YM untuk ajakan bertemu, segera online, atau pada saat pulsa ponsel sedang habis.

h. Menjadi Identitas Gaul
Selain alamat email, nickname untuk berkomunikasi melalui program instant messenger tersebut telah menjadi identitas pergaulan antar pengguna internet, terutama remaja SMA dan mahasiswa. Rasanya tidak asing lagi ketika mereka saling bertemu dan menanyakan “Eh, YM loe apa?” pada saat kopi darat maupun melalui email. Bahkan rata-rata di tiap warnet dapat ditemukan program ini telah tersedia di setiap komputer, baik sengaja diinstal oleh pengelola warnet itu sendiri maupun secara diam-diam oleh pengunjung yang membutuhkan. Bagi pengguna rutin, rasanya kurang jika browsing di internet tidak didampingi oleh pengirim pesan yang multifungsi ini.

Google Talk.

Seolah tak mau ketinggalan dengan saudara tuanya Yahoo, Google juga merilis instant messenger-nya yang bernama Google Talk. Fitur tidak jauh berbeda dengan Yahoo Messenger, hanya saja untuk menggunakan layanan ini dibutuhkan akun di Google.com.
Beberapa fitur utama Google Talk diantaranya :
• Instant messaging
• PC-to-PC voice calls
• Gmail notifications (pemberitahuan jika ada email masuk ke akun Google yang bersangkutan.
• File transfers (berkirim file)

ICQ Messenger

Untuk bisa menggunakannya, Anda harus memiliki akun di ICQ. Sebetulnya, ICQ juga menyediakan fasilitas online chat pada homepage-nya, tanpa memerlukan aplikasi instant messenger. Tapi, fitur dan juga tampilannya terlalu sederhana. Berbeda dengan yang ada pada aplikasi instant messenger-nya. Sebagai daya saing, ICQ menyediakan komunitas alias network, yang bisa di-browse dan diakses d instant messenger.

AIM Messenger

Kalau IM yang ini populernya terutama di Amerika Serikat dan Kanada. Untuk bisa menggunakannya, Anda harus memiliki akun di AOL (American On Line). Chatrooms tidak disertakan bersama instant messenger ini. Chatrooms bisa diakses secara terpisah di http://chat.aim.com atau di http://peopleconnection.aol.com.

Skype

Yang satu ini bisa digunakan untuk chatting, mengirim SMS ke mobile phone, dan juga melakukan percakapan dengan mobile phone. Hanya saja, untuk bisa kirim SMS atau menelpon ke mobile phone, Anda terlebih dahulu harus beli kredit dari Skype. Sementara kalau sekadar untuk chatting tentu saja gratis. Jika Anda tertarik, kunjungi http://skype.com, dan unduhlah installernya.

Skype menggunakan teknologi P2P (peer to peer). Program ini merupakan program bebas (dapat didownload gratis) dan dibuat dengan tujuan penyediaan sarana komunikasi suara (voice) berkualitas tinggi yang murah berbasiskan internet untuk semua orang di berbagai belahan dunia. Pengguna Skype dapat berbicara dengan pengguna Skype lainnya dengan gratis, menghubungi telepon tradisional dengan biaya (skypeOut), menerima panggilan dari telepon tradisional (SkypeIn), dan menerima pesan suara. Teknologi skype ditemukan oleh wirausahawan Niklas Zennström dan Janus Friis, orang yang sama yang menemukan Kazaa dan Joost (P2P untuk televisi). Skype lalu berkompetisi dengan protokol terbuka VoIP yang sudah ada seperti SIP, IAX, dan H.323. Grup Skype yang dibentuk pada bulan September 2003 lalu dibeli oleh perusahaan lelang internet raksasa di Amerika e-Bay pada bulan September 2005 dan bermarkas di Luxembourg, Jerman dengan kantor-kantor di London, Inggris, Praha, Rusia dan San Jose, California, A.S.

Sejak diluncurkan skype telah mengalami pertumbuhan pesat baik dari penggunaannya yang populer maupun pengembangan perangkat lunaknya, jasa yang ditawarkan pun menjadi beragam mulai dari penggunaan gratis maupun berbayar. Hanya dalam beberapa tahun saja pada bulan April 2006 Skype memiliki 100 juta pengguna.

Skype memiliki beberapa keunggulan, diantaranya :

Kualitas suara yang lebih baik
Dalam hal kualitas suara yang lebih baik, hal ini mungkin terjadi karena tim kerja Skype telah berhasil mengontrol sumberdaya- sumberdaya yang tersedia pada jaringan. Sehingga meningkatkan keberhasilan panggilan dan kualitas pada jaringan Skype melebihi tingkat POTS (Plain Old Telephony System: Sistem Telepon Tua Biasa) tanpa menggunakan pemusatan sumberdaya yang mahal. Dengan menyederhanakan perangkat lunaknya, sistem ini memungkinkan pengaplikasian yang mudah oleh siapapun.

Traversal Firewall dan NAT (Network Address Translation)
Klien-klien yang tidak menggunakan firewall dan klien-klien yang sudah berada pada alamat-alamat IP publik yang terarah dapat membantu “ujung-penghubung” dari NAT berkomunikasi dengan mengarahkan panggilan. Hal ini memungkinkan dua klien yang awalnya tidak bisa berkomunikasi untuk berbicara satu sama lainnya, karena sinyal panggilan di terjemahkan pada pengguna akhir yang satu dan pengguna akhir lainnya, sehingga kekhawatiran akan resiko keamanan atau privasi dapat diatasi. Bersamaan dengan hal ini, hanya proxi-proxi yang memiliki “jatah” berlebih yang dipilih sehingga performa pada penggunanya tidak terganggu. Beberapa teknik baru telah dikembangkan untuk menghindari konfigurasi firewall dan gateway pada pengguna akhir, dimana setting konfigurasi yang tidak sensitif biasanya menghambat mayoritas pengguna dalam berkomunikasi. Singkatnya, Skype bekerja dibelakang mayoritas firewall dan gateway tanpa menggunakan konfigurasi khusus.

Data dan Alat Pencari Pengguna Global Terdesentralisasi
Kebanyakan dari pengirim-penerima pesan instan (Instant Messenger) atau perangkat lunak komunikasi memerlukan bentuk data pencari terpusat yang bertujuan agar hubungan antar pengguna akhir berhasil dilakukan, dimana para pengguna akhir ini memiliki nama pengguna statis karena alamat IP-nya cenderung berubah. Perubahan ini terjadi saat pengguna berpindah lokasi atau mencoba menghubungkan diri kembali ke dalam jaringan dengan menggunakan alamat IP dinamis.

Kebanyakan dari alat komunikasi yang berbasiskan internet, mencari dan menemukan penggunanya menggunakan sentral informasi (central directory) dimana setiap nama pengguna dan nomor IPnya tercatat dan mencari tahu apakah setiap pengguna sedang dalam jaringan (online) atau tidak. Sentral informasi ini amatlah besar biayanya ketika penggunanya bertambah hingga jutaan, dengan mendesentralisasikan infrastruktur yang memakan banyak sumberdaya ini, skype berhasil memfokuskan sumber dayanya untuk mengembangkan fungsi. Teknologi jaringan P2P yang digunakan oleh aplikasi “berbagi berkas” (file-sharing) sebenarnya hampir cocok untuk digunakan pada jaringan desentralisasi yang digunakan oleh skype, namun jaringan-jaringan ini secara alamiah telah terbagi-bagi. Pencarian tidak dapat menghubungkan seluruh “ujung” yang terdapat di jaringan. Sehingga untuk dapat berkomunikasi dengan kualitas telepon yang baik dengan biaya serendah mungkin, diperlukan pengembangan generasi ketiga dari teknologi P2P (“3G P2P”) atau dikenal juga dengan Indeks Global (Global Index) disingkat IG – hal ini membuktikan sekali lagi pergeseran paradigma pada istilah “jaringan yang mungkin” .

Teknologi IG adalah jaringan berlapis-lapis dimana antara penghubung-super (supernones) saling berkomunikasi dengan cara tertentu sehingga setiap penghubung dalam jaringan memiliki pengetahuan penuh akan setiap pengguna yang ada dan sumberdaya yang digunakannya dalam selubung (jeda panggilan) seminimal mungkin.

Pengarah lalulintas yang pintar (intelligent routing)
Dengan menggunakan seluruh sumberdaya yang ada, Skype mampu mengarahkan dengan pintar panggilan panggilan yang terkode melalui seluruh jalur efektif yang mungkin dilalui. Skype bahkan memastikan berbagai jalur-jalur penghubung tetap terbuka dan secara dinamis berpindah memilih jalur yang terbaik pada saat itu. Hal ini membuat Skype langsung menjadi perhatian orang karena dampaknya dalam mengurangi jeda sambungan dan peningkatan kualitas panggilan dalam jaringan.

Keamanan
Setiap panggilan dan pesan instan dikodekan oleh Skype pada ujung satu dan lainnya untuk melindungi privasi pengguna. Pengkodean ini perlu karena seluruh panggilan/ pertukaran informasi disalurkan menggunakan fasilitas internet untuk publik.

Mudah digunakan
Dengan perangkat yang mudah digunakan dan bukan mempersulit pengguna, skype dibuat sesederhana mungkin – semua orang yang dapat menggunakan aplikasi Windows dan telepon karena perangkat lunak ini dapat bekerja dengan baik dengan sistem operasi komputer saku (pocket PC), Windows 2000, XP, Pocket PC, Mac OS X and Linux

Fitur-fitur utama pada Skype :
• Chat, yaitu melakukan percakapan berbasis teks antar sesama pengguna Skype.
• Group Chat, yaitu fitur untuk melakukan chat dengan beberapa orang sekaligus dalam suatu room (hingga 100 orang).
• Emoticons, yaitu fasilitas untuk menggunakan icon-icon/ gambar-gambar kecil sebagai gambar profil atau icon untuk menunjukkan suasana hati si pengguna.
• Conference Calls, sama seperti Group chat, bedanya group chat menggunakan teks sebagai media komunikasi, sedangkan Conference Calls sudah menggunakan suara (voice).
• Call Forwarding, fitur untuk mengalihkan panggilan pada saat berhalangan.
• Sending Files, fitur untuk berkirim file via jaringan internet.
• Skype Voicemail, mesin penjawab seperti pada operator selular.
• Video Calling, fitur untuk melakukan panggilan video.

Disamping keenam instant messenger diatas, Ada juga beberapa Aplikasi Instant Messaging yang memberikan akses ke beberapa account instant messaging populer (Yahoo, MSN, Google Talk, dan AIM) dalam satu program secara bersamaan. Misalnya Pigdin, GAIM (Ubuntu), iChat (MAC-OS), GIM, Miranda IM, Trillian, Adium, Digsby, dsb.

Digsby

Aplikasi ini dapat dipakai untuk chatting dengan AIM, MSN, Yahoo, ICQ, Google Talk, dan Jabber secara bersamaan. Dengan fitur Log conversation history, maka kita dapat melihat kembali pembicaraan yang telah kita lakukan. Seperti halnya YM, Digsby juga akan memberikan peringatan jika ada email baru masuk yang ada di Hotmail, Gmail, Yahoo Mail, AOL/AIM Mail, IMAP, dan POP accounts. Jika punya account di Facebook, Twitter, atau MySpace juga akan ada peringatan ada friends request, pesan, dan juga group invites. Digsby hanya untuk pengguna Windows.

Pidgin

Seperti halnya Digsby, Pidgin dapat digunakan untuk chatting menggunakan beberapa layanan chatting sekaligus. Pidgin dapat digunakan untuk AIM, ICQ, Jabber/XMPP, MSN Messenger, Yahoo!, Bonjour, Gadu-Gadu, IRC, Novell GroupWise Messenger, QQ, Lotus Sametime, SILC, SIMPLE, MySpaceIM, dan Zephyr. Yang menarik adalah bahwa aplikasi ini bisa diinstall plugin layaknya Firefox untuk menambahkan fitur-fitur baru. Pidgin bisa digunakan di Windows dan Linux.

Adium

Adium bisa digunkan untuk chatting dengan AOL, Jabber, MSN, Yahoo! Messenger, Bonjour, MySpace IM, Gadu-Gadu, Novell Groupwise, QQ, Lotus Sametime. ADium juga bisa digunakan melakukan video chat seperti hanya di YM. Sayangnya Adium hanya bisa digunakan di Mac OS.  ^_^

Trillian

Trillian mendukung AIM, ICQ, MSN, Yahoo Messenger, and IRC. Fitur-fiturnya anatara lain contact message history, a powerful skinning language, tabbed messaging, global status changes (set all networks away at once), Instant Lookup (automatic Wikipedia integration), dan contact alerts. Trillian hanya untuk pengguna Windows

Bila Instant messenger yang tersebut di atas menggunakan aplikasi tambahan yang harus diinstal sebagai interface, terdapat pula berbagai macam instant messenger berbasis web yang bisa diakses melalui browser selayaknya mengakses sebuah website, layanan tersebut dinamakan Web Based Instant Messenger.

Meebo (http://www.meebo.com)

Meebo ini merupakan klien instant messenger berbasis web yang paling populer di masyarakat internet. Layanan pihak ketiga-nya dengan AIM, Yahoo!, Google Talk, MSN, ICQ dan jaringan-jaringan lain yang stabil tanpa memperlambat komputer anda dan interface yang menyenangkan membuat Meebo ini banyak yang suka dan populer sekali. Dengan ditambahkannya Chat Room yaitu Meebo Rooms, situs ini menjadi semakin besar dan mengasyikkan.

eBuddy (http://www.ebuddy.com)

Dengan menggunakan ebuddy ini, kamu bisa chat dengan teman-teman anda dengan menggunakan versi web dan mobile-nya. EBuddy ini sangat ringan dan mudah banget kamu gunakan. Saat ini eBuddy ini mendukung Yahoo! Messenger.

Yahoo! Web Messenger (http://webmessenger.yahoo.com/)

Dengan menggunakan yahoo messenger berbasis web ini, kamu bisa chat dengan teman-teman anda dalam list friend di yahoo! messenger ini dan anda akan diberikan notifikasi jika ada email masuk ke akun yahoo! mail anda.

KoolIM (http://www.koolim.com)

IM berbasis web ini dapat membantu anda untuk terkoneksi dengan inbox email anda seperti jaringan-jaringan instant messenger populer lainnya seperti Meebo juga.

ILoveIM (http://www.iloveim.com)

ILoveIM ini merupakan salah satu layanan IM lain berbasis web yang dapat membantu anda untuk terkoneksi dengan akun-akun IM anda dengan disertai sedikit iklan untuk mendukung layanannya tetapi tidak terlalu mengganggu.

Goowy (http://www.goowy.com)

Goowy ini lebih dari hanya sekedar klien IM berbasis web tetapi juga menawarkan layanan e-mail, kalender, berita, RSS, storage file gratis, dan banyak lagi dalam satu tempat.

IMunitive (http://www.imunitive.com/index.html)

Imunitive ini merupakan salah satu alternatif seperti Meebo dengan dukungan platform IM yang hampir sama tetapi tidak mendukung Jabber. Salah satu situs layanan IM berbasis web yang perlu anda datangi.

RadiusIM (http://www.radiusim.com/)

Layanan IM berbasis web ini memiliki integrasi dengan google maps yang berarti anda bisa melihat teman-teman yang sedang chat dengan anda berasal dari kota atau daerah mana. Layanan ini yang kita butuhkan.

IMO (https://imo.im/)
Dengan menggunakan layanan ini, anda bisa log in ke banyak jaringan chat IM populer pada waktu yang sama. Selain itu kelebihannya layanan ini berbasis web, jadi sangat mempermudah anda.

Mabber (http://www.mabber.com/)

Mabber ini memiliki kelebihan yaitu dapat anda gunakan baik pada web atau mobile phone. Mabber ini mendukung platform IM seperti AIM, ICQ, MSN Messenger, Yahoo Messenger, dan Google Talk. Selain itu yang paling asyik adalah mabber mempunyai widget chatbox untuk diletakkan di website atau blog anda. Jadi anda bisa chatting lewat website atau blog anda.

Plugoo (http://www.plugoo.com)

Plugoo ini merupakan kumpulan IM-IM terkenal yang disatukan pada sebuah widget atau aksesori web/blog sehingga anda bisa terhubung dengan pengunjung-pengunjung situs anda dari IM-IM seperti AIM, MSN, Yahoo, Gtalk, ICQ dan Jabber. Bagus banget jika anda ingin berkomunikasi dengan pengunjung situs anda.

SNIMMER (http://www.snimmer.com)

Anda bisa chat langsung dengan MSN, Yahoo, AOL, ICQ, GTalk dan memperbanyak teman baru dengan membuat profil anda dengan disertai foto.

MSN Web Messenger (http://webmessenger.msn.com)

MSN Messenger berbasis web ini dimiliki langsung oleh jaringan MSN atau dalam artian lain, official web messenger. Tetapi fiturnya tidak disertai sharing file dan video call.

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Komunikasi Menggunakan EchoLink ( My Call Sign Jz.09.Jms )

EchoLink Adalah Komputer Berbasis Sistem Radio Amatir,Yang memungkinkan Amatir Radio Untuk Berkomunikasi Dengan Sesama Amatir Menggunakan Voice Over Ip ( VoIP )

Komunikasi Ini Di Lakukan Menggunakan Teknologi Berbasis Internet.Perancang EchoLink Adalah Jonathan Taylor !!!

Seorang Amatir Radio Dengan Call Sign K1RFD.

Sistem Ini Memungkinkan Koneksi Yang dapat Di Gunakan Di Seluruh Dunia !!!

Namum Pengunaan Terbatas Hanya Amatir Radio You Know ? Not Hacker ^_^  , Dan Diharapkan Meningkatkan Amatir Radios Komunikasi .Pada Dasarnya Sistem Ini Sama Dengan Aplikasi VoIP Lainya ( Seperti Skype ) Perbedaanya Ada Penambahan dari Kemampuan Untuk Link Ke Transceiver ke Stasiun Radio Amatirs.Tak Ubah Bedanya Dengan eQSO.Namum Untuk EchoLink Saat Ini Masih i Rilis Dan Mendukung Beragam Os Dan Device.Diantaranya Linux,Window Iphones,Android Dan Window Mobile.

Perangkat Lunak Ini Berjalan Pada 32-bit Dan Versi 64-bit.Dari Microsoft Windows.

Perbedaan Yang Mencolok Saat Di Gunakan Adalah Pada Kwalitas Suara. Yang Pernah Saya Alami Saat mengkoneksikan Gateway Melalui EchoLink dan eQSO Sangat Jauh Bedanya.

Dengan EchoLink Selain lebih Jernih Kita Juga Sekaligus Masuk Pada Komunitas Radio Amateur Radio World Wide.Namum Di Sisi Ada kelebihan Di Banding Dengan Software eQSO Tentu Ada kelemahanya,Yaitu Bagi Yang Koneksinya Slowly Alias Tidak Stabil Akan Sulit Terkomunikasi Dengan Teman Yang Lain ( Walau Hanya Sekedar Rx Mode / Untuk Monitor Saja ) Untuk Itu Ada Baiknya Anda Gunakan Software EchoLink Auto Connect Versi 1.31 Visited Now And Download At http://www.retry.net/en/autoconnect.html 
Penggunaan Perangkat Lunak EchoLink  Dapat Beroperasi Dalam Satu Dari Dua Mode :
1) Mode Single User  Yang Kita Kenal Dengan Istilah Penguna Pc Client
2) Sysop Mode Yaitu Menuntut Penghubung Untuk Sendiri Atau di pancarkan Melalui Transceiver VHF / UHF  Ke Pc Atau Sebaliknya.Dengan Tambahan Interface Yang Khusus Di Rancang Ke Internet Dengan Antar Muka Hardware Untuk Skema Interface Sama Dengan Skema Yang kita Gunakan Pada Skema Interface eQSO.
Jadi Amatir Radio Lain Dengan Transceiver Mereka Sendiri Yang Berada Dalam Jangkauan Radio Stasion Yang Nge-Link Ini,Ini Dapat Berkomunikasi Dengan  ( Atau Melalui ) Setiap Stasion EchoLink  Lain Di Seluruh Dunia.Selain Di Link Mengunakan Radio Hal Ini Juga Di Bolehkan Di Link Melalui Repeater  Sehingga Jangkauan Yang Lebih Luas  Dan Perangkat Yang Sederhana Setidaknya  Sudah Bisa Membuka dan Terhubung Ke Seluruh Dunia.
Visited Now !!! And Download Software And Register EchoLink At  http://www.echolink.org/register_data.jsp

YOU ROCK BABE !!!

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Yang Suka Clubing ? And Hang Out Di Jakarta...You Rock Gan !!!

Club36 Discotheque !!!
Jayakarta Hotel 
Jl. Hayam Wuruk Raya No. 126 Jakarta 11180

Dragonfly Discotheque!!!

Jl Jend Gatot Subroto Kav 23 Graha BIP Lt 1 Jakarta 12930,
Tel.: (62)(21) 520 2913.

Expensive restaurant and stylish nightclub in shades of black and red, with a two-story wine rack. As of 2006 probably Jakarta’s top place for the idle rich to see and be seen, so expect long queues on weekends unless you show up before midnight or know the right people. Free entry, but steeply priced drinks at Rp.70,000 and up.

Emporium Discotheque !!!
Jl. Pecenongan, Central Jakarta.
One of Jakarta’s countless dodgy karaoke-disco-spa-massage lounges, but from the upper end of the spectrum and with some English-speaking Filipina staff. Grab a bunch of friends and book a private karaoke room for a night out Indonesian-style; two bottles of Remy Martin cognac (the drink of choice) cost a cool Rp 880,000.

Golden Crown Discotheque !!!
Jl Pinangsia Raya 1 Glodok Plaza Lt 3, Jakarta 11110,
Tel.: (62)(21) 6230 2888

Golden Time Discotheque !!!
Jl Agung Utr Raya Sunter Agung Podomoro Bl A/5-A, Jakarta 14350,
Tel.: (62)(21) 6583 4504

Hard Rock Cafe, Plaza Indonesia !!!
Jl. MH. Thamrin Kav. 13, tel. (62)(21) 3199 0164.
In most of the world the HRC is synonymous with rock’n’roll kitsch and overpriced hamburgers for tourists, but Jakarta’s is famous as a place to party and it gets packed on weekends. Recently reopened at a new location and, moan the old-timers, not the quite the same anymore (although there are still long queues to get in on weekends).

Hailai International Executive Club !!!
Jl Lodan Tmr 1 Hailai Bldg, Jakarta 14430
Tel.: (62)(21) 645 9868
Lido Palace, Jl Mangga Dua Raya Harco Mangga Dua Plaza Bl B/119, Jakarta 10730, Tel.: (62)(21) 601 5955

Millenium Discotheque !!!
Jl Gajah Mada 19-26 Gajah Mada Plaza Lt 5-6, Jakarta 10130,
Tel.: (62)(21) 6385 7552

Milles Executive Club !!!
Jl Lokasari Mangga Besar Plaza Lt 4
Jakarta 11170, Tel.: (62)(21) 625 5318

Monaco Club !!!
Hotel Gran Mahakam, Jl Mahakam I no 6, Jakarta Selatan,
Tel.: (62)(21) 7209566.
Discotheque, dance,Karaoke rooms, Bar. Japanese and French cuisine: escargot, sushi, sashimi. Drinks: Mojito, Cinzano Piccolo, Vino de Monaco, Vodca Martini. Opening hours: Tuesday to Thursday: 6PM-2AM, Friday and Saturday: 6 PM-3.30AM, Sunday: 7PM-1AM. Price: splurge.

Nirvana Discotheque !!!
Hotel Maharadja
Jl. Kapten Tendean 1, South Jakarta
Tel.: (62)(21) 79183887.
Facility: Disco, Karaoke, home band, damce floor. Music style: tribal, garage, oldies, underground. Opening hours: 11.00 pm to 04.00 AM. Karaoke facility on 2nd floor: 10 rooms from US$ 10/hour.
Play, Hotel Grand Ancol 1st Fl, Jl. Laks. RE Martadinata Bl C17, Ancol, North Jakarta, Tel.: (62)(21) 691 6009. The closest Jakarta gets to a strip club, with Uzbek pole dancers and truly bizarre wall murals. No cover, drinks from Rp. 25,000.

SANDS Discotheque !!!
mangga 2 square
one stop entertaint kali ya lebih cocok

Stadium Discotheque !!!
Hayam Wuruk 111 FF-JJ, West Jakarta
tel. (62)(21) 626 3323.
Legendary Jakartan superclub with no less than five dancefloors and capacity for 4000, the party starts every Thursday and doesn’t stop until Monday. Note that the drug scene is heavy here, resulting in frequent police raids, and the club has had some problems with gang violence, so bring a friend or two and keep an eye out for trouble.

Valentino Discotheque !!!
Jl Mangga Besar Raya 91-E, Jakarta 11170,
Tel.: (62)(21) 659 3709

White House Discotheque !!!
Jl Jend Sudirman Kav 54-55 Plaza Bapindo Ged Parkir Lt 1, Jakarta 12190,
Tel.: (62)(21) 527 5635

X-Lounge/Vertigo !!!
Gedung Veteran RI 16-17F (in Plaza Semanggi), Jl. Gatot Subroto,
tel. (62)(21) 2553 9892. Two interconnected clubs, the more nightclubby Vertigo upstairs playing harder dance music and the more bar-like X-Lounge downstairs spinning R&B and pop. Entrance Rp. 80,000 on weekends, which gets you a drink and access to both.

1001 Club !!!
Jl. Hayam Wuruk 108 Hayam Wuruk Plaza I Lt 4, Jakarta 11180 ,
Tel.: (62)(21) 6264567

AB Club !!!
Jl. Sunan Kalijaga Kav 64 Bl M, Jakarta 12160 ,
Tel.: (62)(21) 7203892

Antik Discotheque !!!
Jl. P Jayakarta 45 Bl A-1/17-20, Jakarta 11110 ,
Tel.: (62)(21) 6494980

Asemka Simas Discotheque & Karaoke !!!
Jl. Asemka Psr Pagi, Jakarta 11110 ,
Tel.: (62)(21) 6310383

Bandara Discotheque !!!
Pert Aldiron Plaza Bl B/3 RT 006/05, Jakarta 11510 ,
Tel.: (62)(21) 56969914

Barong Discotheque !!!
Jl. Pluit Indah Raya 168, Jakarta 14450 ,
Tel.: (62)(21) 6695461

Cleopatra Discotheque !!!
Jl. Agung Utara Raya Bl A/5, Jakarta 14350 ,
Tel.: (62)(21) 64716899

Dreams Discotheque !!!
Jl. Mangga Besar Raya 4-HH, Jakarta 11170 ,
Tel.: (62)(21) 6495092

Furama Club !!!
Jl. Hayam Wuruk 72, Jakarta 11160 ,
Tel.: (62)(21) 6257272

Grand Manhattan Club !!!
Jl. Lap Banteng Slt 1 Hotel Borobudur Jakarta Lt 1-3, Jakarta 10710 ,
Tel.: (62)(21) 3842223

Hailai Discotheque !!!
Jl. Lodan Tmr 1 Hailai Bldg, Jakarta 14430 ,
Tel.: (62)(21) 6459868

Jakarta Discotheque !!!
Jl. Mangga Besar Raya 91 D/E-93, Jakarta 11170 ,
Tel.: (62)(21) 6591689

JJ Duit Discotheque & Pub !!!
Jl. Tanah Abang Tmr 16, Jakarta 10110 ,
Tel.: (62)(21) 3459031

Athena Discotheque !!!
Jl. Kali Besar Brt 22, Jakarta 11230 ,
Tel.: (62)(21) 6916688

Lasonta Discotheque !!!
Jl. Palatehan I 29, Jakarta 12160 ,
Tel.: (62)(21)
7394148

Lintas Melawai Club !!!
Jl. Melawai Raya 22 Ged Lintas Melawai Club Lt 2, Jakarta 12160 ,
Tel.: (62)(21) 7255726

Lisa Discotheque !!!
Jl. Gajah Mada 3-5 Kompl Duta Merlin Bl CNO/1-3, Jakarta 10130 ,
Tel.: (62)(21) 63855505

M2000 Discotheque !!!
Jl. KH Samanhudi 11-A, Jakarta 10710 ,
Tel.: (62)(21) 3856580

Maya Discotheque !!!
Jl. Jatinegara Tmr 22, Jakarta 13310 ,
Tel.: (62)(21) 8505556

Medika Discotheque !!!
Jl. Daan Mogot I 27-33, Jakarta 11470 ,
Tel.: (62)(21) 5682610

Monster Discotheque !!!
Jl. Blora 19, Jakarta 10310 ,
Tel.: (62)(21) 3143961

Moonlight Discotheque !!!
Jl. Hayam Wuruk 120, Jakarta 11160 ,
Tel.: (62)(21) 6293274

Morgans Discotheque !!!
Jl. Senen Raya 135 Plaza Atrium Lt 1, Jakarta 10410 ,
Tel.: (62)(21) 3442828

Musro Discotheque Pub & Karaoke !!!
Jl. Lap Banteng Slt 1 Hotel Borobudur Jakarta Lt Dasar, Jakarta 10710 ,
Tel.: (62)(21) 3842050

New Stardust Discotheque !!!
Jl. MH Thamrin 11 Ged Sarinah Lt 14, Jakarta 10350 ,
Tel.: (62)(21) 3146601

New Tanker Discotheque !!!
Jl. Cilincing Raya 53, Jakarta 14270 ,
Tel.: (62)(21) 43931091

Parahiangan Discotheque !!!
Jl. Blora 24 RT 002/06, Jakarta 10310 ,
Tel.: (62)(21) 3101069

Pit Stop Discotheque !!!
Jl. MH Thamrin 6 Hotel Sari Pan Pacific Lt 2, Jakarta 10340 ,
Tel.: (62)(21) 31923707

Princess Discotheque !!!
Jl. Kebayoran Lama Raya 14, Jakarta 12230 ,
Tel.: (62)(21) 7221064

Pujasera Discotheque !!!
Jl. Mangga Besar 65, Jakarta 11170 ,
Tel.: (62)(21) 6592445

Rajamas Entertainment !!!
Jl. Hayam Wuruk 100 Hayam Wuruk Lindeteves Bldg, Jakarta 11180 ,
Tel.: (62)(21) 6242526

Rasa Sayang Discotheque !!!
Jl. Mangga Besar I 63 H-F, Jakarta 11180 ,
Tel.: (62)(21) 6398789

REM Club Discotheque !!!
Jl Laks. R.E. Marrtadinata No. 10, Jakarta 1440,
Tel.: (62)(21) 6917049.

Sedap Malam Discotheque !!!
Jl. Hayam Wuruk 111-M, Jakarta 11160 ,
Tel.: (62)(21) 6391066

Selayang Pandang Discotheque !!!
Jl. Mangga Besar VIII 3-D, Jakarta 11170 ,
Tel.: (62)(21) 6398509

Siera Discotheque !!!
Jl. Mangga Besar Raya 65, Jakarta 11180 ,
Tel.: (62)(21) 6498254

Stadium Discotheque !!!
Jl. Hayam Wuruk 111 FF-GG-HH-II-JJ, Jakarta 11160 ,
Tel.: (62)(21) 6263323

Sydney 2000 Discotheque !!!
Jl. Hayam Wuruk Pert Glodok Jaya Lt 9, Jakarta 11180
Tel.: (62)(21) 6250686

Country Discotheque !!!
Jl. Mangga Besar Raya 81 Lokasari Plaza Bl B/36 Lt 1, Jakarta 11170 ,
Tel.: (62)(21) 6252324

Widya Discotheque !!!
Jl. Daan Mogot I 11, Jakarta 11470 ,
Tel.: (62)(21) 5682886

Rich Private Club !!!
Bellezza Shopping ArcadeGround FloorArteri
Permata Hijau
Jl. Jend. Soepono No. 34 Jakarta Selatan
Ph. +62 21 5366 4775
Fx. +62 21 5366 4776

X2 Discotheque !!!
Plaza Senayan Lt. 4, Jl. Asia Afrika No. 8
Tel : 5725570 / 572556

JANGAN LUPA AREA KEMANG...AREA EXPETARIAT GAN...YOU ROCK !!!

WARNING PARENTAL ADVISORY !!!

Band Black Metal Yang Penganut Satanisme

Di antara banyak band-band metal Saat ini, terdapat beberapa band-band yang merupakan band-band sesat yang memuja setan. Band-band tersebut menjual jiwanya untuk para setan demi keinginanya agar memperoleh ketenaran. Band yang beraliran Black Metal merupakan aliran metal yang paling banyak memiliki Band Metal-Satanis.

1. Acheron



Band yang beraliran sesat itu misalnya Acheron, band yang berdiri pada tahun 1998, dan dibentuk oleh Pendeta Vincent Crowley di Tampa, Florida. Yang kemudian bergabung dengan Peter H. Gilmore, Magister Gereja Setan.

Dan untuk pertama kalinya, band ini merilis album yang berjudul "Messe Noir" pada tahun 1988. Album ini dibuat khusus sebagai edisi terbatas 7-inci yang juga merupakan rekor dimensi sebuah album yang belum pernah ada sebelumnya, dan untuk membuat album ini benar-benar kental terhadap aliran satanis, Acheron membuat album ini dicopy hanya untuk 666 eksemplar.

Kemudian pada tahun 1991, band ini membuat tercengang dunia dengan menerbitkan album kedua mereka yang berjudul Rites of the Black Mass (1991). Pada album tersebut, setiap lagu-lagunya mengandung ayat-ayat yang ada pada injil hitam (Satanic Bible) serta digunakan intro bergaya Gothik dan gitar solo yang membuat lagu-lagu tersebut terkesan dari dunia "Kegelapan". Lagu-lagu merekapun didasarkan atas filsafat "Satanis".

Album :
Messe Noir (1988), Rites of the Black Mass (1991), Alla Xul (1992), Satanic Victory (1992), Lex Talionis (1992), Anti-God, Anti-Christ (1996), Those Who Have Risen (1997), Necromanteion Communion (1998), Compendium Diablerie : The Demo Days (2001).

2. Angelcorpse



Band kedua yang juga termasuk band yang menganut aliran Satanisme adalah band Angelcorpse. Merupakan band yang dibentuk pada tahun 1995 oleh Pete Helmkamp dan mantan band yang dikenal sebagai Orde dari Chaos. Angelcorpse berasal dari Kansas City, tapi mereka pindah ke Tampa Florida (yang merupakan daerah penganut Satanisme) di Amerika. Musik mereka bertemakan Anti-Kristus dan peperangan. Pada tahun 1995 dan 2007 Band ini melakukan tur ke Eropa untuk mendukukng band-band beraliran satanisme yang ada.

Hal lain yang berkaitan dengan band ini adalah Pete Helmkamp, personil band, menulis buku yang berjudul 'The Conqueror Manifesto.' menurutnya, hal-hal yang memandang bahwa "In the spirit of Crowley's " dan pandangan tentang "Antichrist" adalah merupakan kebenaran. Dalam bukunya tersebut Pete menuliskan upaya manusia agar bisa naik ke Quest terhadap Plateau dari Invincibility dan mencapai Godhood (Homodeus).

Album :
Goats to Azazael Demo (1995), Hammer of Gods (1996), Nuclear Hell (1997), Wolflust Single (1997), Exterminate (1998), Winds of Desecration (1999), The Inexorable (1999), Iron, Blood and Blasphemy (2000), Death Dragons of the Apocalypse (2002), Of Lucifer and Lightning (2007).

3. Cradle Of Filth




Band ketiga adalah band beraliran Black Metal-Satanis, yaitu Cradle Of Filth. Adalah band yang berasal dari Inggris dibentuk pada tahun 1992, dengan penyanyi utama Dani Filth.

Merupakan Band yang sangat erat kaitanya dengan Sihir, Mitologi, dan hal-hal yang berbau Kotoran. Selain menyanyikan alunan musik Black Metal, aliran ini juga meminkan aliran Dark Metal dan Death Metal, Vampyric Metal dan Satan Metal dan Symphonic Black Metal.

Aliran ini telah banyak berubah sejak awal mula dibentuk. Pada awalnya nuansa Death Metal begitu kelihatan, namun seiring dengan waktu berubah menjadi Black, dan yang terakhir Bernuansa Ghotic yang sangat terlihat pada lagu " Nymphetamine". Prestasi besar yang pernah diraih oleh band ini adalah merupakan band yang paling terkenal di Inggris setelah Iron Maiden.

Album :
The Principle of Evil Made Flesh (1994), Dusk... and Her Embrace (1996), Cruelty and the Beast (1998), Midian (2000), Damnation and a Day (2003), Nymphetamine (2004), Thornography (2006), Godspeed on the Devil's Thunder (2008).

4. Dimmu Borgir



Band keempat yang juga merupakan band beraliran Satanis adalah Dimmu Borgir. Adalah Band Black Metal yang berasal dari Oslo, Norwegia, dibentuk pada tahun 1993. Dibentuk oleh Shagrath, Silenoz, dan Tjodalv.

Band ini pertama kali menerbitkan album Inn i evighetens mørke pada tahun 1994. Yang kemudian merampungkan seluruh Track pada album For All Tid (1994).

Band ini diketahui sering memainkan aliran Symphonic Black Metal, Black Metal, Ritual Black Metal, dan Deathy Metal. Tema-tema yang dibahas dalam lirik lagu-lagunya hampir sama dengan Cradle Of Filth, yaitu tentang pemujaan kepada Setan, Ritual, dan Peperangan.

Album :
For all tid (1994), Stormblåst (1996), Enthrone Darkness Triumphant (1997), Spiritual Black Dimensions (1999), Puritanical Euphoric Misanthropia (2001), Death Cult Armageddon (2003), Stormblåst MMV (2005) In Sorte Diaboli (2007).

5. Arch Goat




Band kelima merupakan band Black-Death Metal, yaitu Arch Goat yang dibentuk di Finlandia. Album Pertama mereka diluncurkan pada tahun 1992 yang berjudul "Jesus Spawn". Sebuah album yang di dalamnya penuh dengan hujatan-hujatan kepada Tuhan. Style dan gaya Band ini mirip dengan Angelcorpse, yaitu anti Kristus serta banyak memainkan Filosophy Satanis. Band ini juga terkadang memainkan musik Ritual.

Album :
Jesus Spawn (1992), Angelcunt (Tales of Desecration) (1993), Angelslaying Black Fucking Metal (2004), Live Black Mass (2005), Whore of Bethlehem (2006).

6. Blasphemy




Band Satanis keenam, adalah band Black Metal yang bersal dari Kanada, dibentuk di daerah Burnaby tahun 1984 bernama Blasphemy. Debut mereka yang opertama dalah "Blood upon the Altar" pada tahun 1989, merupakan album yang berisi Hujatan-hujatan kepada Tuhan. Band ini juga pernah melakukan tur ke Jerman "Fuck Christ". Dalam syair-syairnya, Band ini banyak menggunakan tema-tema yang berhubungan dengan paganisme, mitologis dan lirik-lirik Anti-Kristus.

Album :
Fallen Angel of Doom (1990), Gods of War (1993), Live Ritual - Friday the 13th (2002).

7. Behemoth




Band ketujuh adalah Behemoth. Behemoth adalah band Black Metal yang berasal dari Polandia pada tahun 1991. Band ini memaikan musik dengan tema-tema Satanis, dan Ritual, dan pemujaan kepada Berhala. Band ini juga memainkan aliran musik Death Metal, ada juga yang menyebutnya sebagai Black Metal, Avantgrade Metal, Pagan Metal. Namun aliran yang sebenarnya dari band ini masih diragukan, karena band ini lebih suka tidak dilabelkan dalam genre apapun.

Album :
And the Forests Dream Eternally (EP) (1995), Sventevith (Storming Near the Baltic) (1995),Grom (1996), Bewitching the Pomerania (EP) (1997), Pandemonic Incantations (1998), Satanica (1999), Thelema.6 (2000), Antichristian Phenomenon (EP) (2001), Zos Kia Cultus (Here and Beyond) (2002), Conjuration (EP) (2003), Demigod (2004), Slaves Shall Serve (EP) (2005), The Apostasy (2007), Ezkaton (EP) (2008), Evangelion (2009).

8. Arch Enemy




Kemudian band kedelapan adalah band Melodic Death Metal yang berasal dari Swedia. Band ini bernama Arch Enemy. Band ini merilis album pertamanya pada tahun 1996 berjudul "Black Earth". Style band ini sangat mengagumkan, setiap track pada albumnya penuh dengan Melodi Gitar yang digabung dengan suara volkalis cewe (Angela Gossow) ini membuatnya begitu berkesan. Hal-hal yang dibahas dalam lagu-lagunya adalah hal-hal mengenai Kiamat, dan Anti-Kristus. Selain itu, pesonil band ini berasal dari para mantan Pemain band metal sebelumnya, seperti band Carcass, dan Yohanes Liva.

Album :
Black Earth (1996), Stigmata (1998), Burning Bridges (1999), Wages of Sin (2001), Anthems of Rebellion (2003), Doomsday Machine (2005), Rise of the Tyrant (2007).

9. Beherit



Band kesembilan, yaitu Beherit merupakan band yang dibentuk di Filnandia pada tahun 1989. Band ini sendiri memiliki arti "setan" dalam bahasa Syria. Musik mereka bertemakan kebiadapan, Anti-Kristus, Neraka, dan penghujatan. Band ini terkenal karena gaya ambient yang dimainkan personilnya, band ini juga memainkan aliran Deathcore dan Black Metal.

Album :
The Oath of Black Blood (1991), Drawing Down the Moon (1993), Dawn of Satan's Millennium (1991), Werewolf, Semen and Blood (1998), Messe Des Morts (1994), Beast of Beherit - Complete Worxxx (1999).

10. Burzum




Band kesepuluh adalah Burzum, merupakan band BlackMetal yang dibentuk oleh Varg Vikernes, pada tahun 1991 di Bergen, Norwegia. Merupakan sebuah band yang sangat gemar melakukan peperangan dan kehancuran. Selain itu, band ini juga sering membuat lagu yang bertemakan anti-Kristus.

Pada tahun 1993 Vokalis Burzum, Varg dijatuhi hukuman atas pembunuhan dan dinyatakan bersalah karena mencoba untuk membakar gereja di Norwegia.

Album :
Burzum (1992), Det som engang var (1993), Hvis lyset tar oss (1994), Filosofem (1996), Dauði Baldrs (1997), Hliðskjálf (1999), Antologi (2002).

History Sex-Pistols Punk Is Not Death !!!

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The Sex Pistols during the shoot for the "God Save the Queen" promotional video, early 1977. Left to right: Sid Vicious, Johnny Rotten, Paul Cook and Steve Jones.

The Sex Pistols were an English punk rock band that formed in London in 1975. They were responsible for initiating the punk movement in the United Kingdom and inspiring many later punk and alternative rock musicians. Although their initial career lasted just two-and-a-half years and produced only four singles and one studio album, Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols, they are regarded as one of the most influential acts in the history of popular music.^[1][2]

The Sex Pistols originally comprised vocalist Johnny Rotten, guitarist Steve Jones, drummer Paul Cook and bassist Glen Matlock. Matlock was replaced by Sid Vicious in early 1977. Under the management of impresario Malcolm McLaren, the band provoked controversies that captivated Britain. Their concerts repeatedly faced difficulties with organizers and authorities, and public appearances often ended in mayhem. Their 1977 single "God Save the Queen", attacking Britons' social conformity and deference to the Crown, precipitated the "last and greatest outbreak of pop-based moral pandemonium"

In January 1978, at the end of a turbulent tour of the United States, Rotten left the band and announced its break-up. Over the next several months, the three other band members recorded songs for McLaren's film version of the Sex Pistols' story, The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle. Vicious died of a heroin overdose in February 1979. In 1996, Rotten, Jones, Cook and Matlock reunited for the Filthy Lucre Tour; since 2002, they have staged further reunion shows and tours. On 24 February 2006, the Sex Pistols—the four original members plus Vicious—were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, but they refused to attend the ceremony, calling the museum "a piss stain".

History

The Sex Pistols evolved from The Strand, a London band formed in 1972 with working-class teenagers Steve Jones on vocals, Paul Cook on drums, and Wally Nightingale on guitar. According to a later account by Jones, both he and Cook played on instruments they had stolen.Early line-ups of The Strand—sometimes known as The Swankers—also included Jim Mackin on organ and Stephen Hayes (and later, briefly, Del Noones) on bass.The band members hung out regularly at two clothing shops on Kings Road, in London's Chelsea neighbourhood: John Krivine and Steph Raynor's Acme Attractions (where Don Letts and Malcolm McLaren and Vivienne Westwood's Too Fast to Live, Too Young to Die. The McLaren–Westwood store had opened in 1971 as Let It Rock, with a 1950s revival Teddy Boy theme. It had been renamed in 1972 to focus on another revival trend, the rocker look associated with Marlon Brando. As John Lydon later observed, "Malcolm and Vivienne were really a pair of shysters: they would sell anything to any trend that they could grab onto."The shop was to become a focal point of the punk rock scene, bringing together participants such as the future Sid Vicious, Marco Pirroni, Gene October, and Mark Stewart, among many others. Jordan, the wildly styled shop assistant, is credited with "pretty well single-handedly paving the punk look".

In early 1974, Jones convinced McLaren to help out The Strand. Effectively becoming the group's manager, McLaren paid for their first formal rehearsal space. Glen Matlock, an art student who occasionally worked at Too Fast to Live, Too Young to Die, was recruited as the band's regular bassist. In November, McLaren temporarily relocated to New York City. Before his departure, McLaren and Westwood had conceived of a new identity for their store: renamed Sex, it changed its focus from retro couture to S&M-inspired "anti-fashion", with a billing as "Specialists in rubberwear, glamourwear & stagewear".After informally managing and promoting the New York Dolls for a few months, McLaren returned to London in May 1975.Inspired by the punk scene that was beginning to emerge in Lower Manhattan—in particular by the radical visual style and attitude of Richard Hell, then with Television—McLaren began taking greater interest in The Strand.

The group had been rehearsing regularly, overseen by McLaren's friend Bernard Rhodes, and had performed publicly for the first time. Soon after McLaren's return, Nightingale was kicked out of the band and Jones, uncomfortable as frontman, took over guitar duties. According to journalist and former McLaren employee Phil Strongman, around this time the band adopted the name QT Jones and the Sex Pistols (or QT Jones & His Sex Pistols, as one Rhodes-designed T-shirt put it). McLaren had been talking with the New York Dolls' Sylvain Sylvain about coming over to England to front the group. When those plans fell through, McLaren, Rhodes and the band began looking locally for a new member to assume the lead vocal duties. As described by Matlock, "Everyone had long hair then, even the milkman, so what we used to do was if someone had short hair we would stop them in the street and ask them if they fancied themselves as a singer."Among those they approached was Midge Ure, who was involved with his own band, Slik. Kevin Rowland—who would cofound Dexys Midnight Runners three years later—auditioned, but apart from Matlock, no one was impressed. With the search going nowhere, McLaren made several calls to Richard Hell, who turned down the invitation.

John Lydon joins the band

In August 1975, Rhodes spotted nineteen-year-old Kings Road habitué John Lydon wearing a Pink Floyd T-shirt with the words I Hate handwritten above the band's name and holes scratched through the eyes.Reports vary at this point: the same day, or soon after, either Rhodes or McLaren asked Lydon to come to a nearby pub in the evening to meet Jones and Cook. According to Jones, "He came in with green hair. I thought he had a really interesting face. I liked his look. He had his 'I Hate Pink Floyd' T-shirt on, and it was held together with safety pins. John had something special, but when he started talking he was a real asshole—but smart."When the pub closed, the group moved over to Sex, where Lydon, who had given little thought to singing, was convinced to improvise along to Alice Cooper's "I'm Eighteen" on the shop jukebox. Though the performance drove the band members to laughter, McLaren convinced them to start rehearsing with Lydon.

Lydon later described the social context in which the band came together:

Early Seventies Britain was a very depressing place. It was completely run-down, there was trash on the streets, total unemployment—just about everybody was on strike. Everybody was brought up with an education system that told you point blank that if you came from the wrong side of the tracks...then you had no hope in hell and no career prospects at all. Out of that came pretentious moi and the Sex Pistols and then a whole bunch of copycat wankers after us.

Nick Kent—a writer for the New Musical Express (NME)—used to jam occasionally with the band, but left upon Lydon's recruitment. "When I came along, I took one look at him and said, 'No. That has to go,'" Lydon later explained. "He's never written a good word about me ever since."In September, McLaren again helped hire private rehearsal space for the group, which had been practising in pubs. Cook, who had a full-time job he was loath to give up, was making noises about quitting. According to Matlock's later description, Cook "created a smokescreen" by claiming Jones wasn't skilled enough to be the band's sole guitarist. An advertisement was placed in Melody Maker for a "Whizz Kid Guitarist. Not older than 20. Not worse looking than Johnny Thunders" (referring to a leading member of the New York punk scene).Most of those who turned up to audition were obviously incompetent, but in McLaren's view, the process created a new sense of solidarity among the four band members. The one talented guitarist who tried out, Steve New, was brought on. Jones, however, was improving rapidly and the band's developing sound had no room for the sort of technical lead work at which New was adept. He departed after a month.

Lydon had been rechristened "Johnny Rotten" by Jones, apparently because of his bad dental hygiene.The band also settled on a name. After considering options such as Le Bomb, Subterraneans, the Damned, Beyond, Teenage Novel, Kid Gladlove, and Crème de la Crème, they decided on Sex Pistols—a shortened form of the name they had apparently been working under informally. McLaren later explained that the name derived "from the idea of a pistol, a pin-up, a young thing, a better-looking assassin". Not given to modesty, false or otherwise, he added, "launched the idea in the form of a band of kids who could be perceived as being bad."The group began writing original material: Rotten was the lyricist and Matlock the primary melody writer (though their first collaboration, "Pretty Vacant", had a complete lyric by Matlock, which Rotten tweaked a bit); official credit was shared equally among the four.

The new quartet's first gig was arranged by Matlock, who was studying at Saint Martins College. The band played at the school on 6 November 1975, in support of a pub rock group called Bazooka Joe, arranging to use their amps and drums. The Sex Pistols performed several cover songs, including The Who's "Substitute", the Small Faces' "Whatcha Gonna Do About It", and "(I'm Not Your) Steppin' Stone", made famous by The Monkees; according to observers, they were unexceptional musically aside from being extremely loud. Before the Pistols could play the few original songs they had written to date, Bazooka Joe pulled the plugs as they saw their gear being trashed. A brief physical altercation between members of the two bands took place on stage.

Building a following

The original line-up of the Sex Pistols, early 1976. Left to right: Johnny Rotten, Steve Jones, Glen Matlock and Paul Cook.

The Saint Martins gig was followed by other performances at colleges and art schools around London. The Sex Pistols' core group of followers—including Siouxsie Sioux, Steve Severin and Billy Idol, who would go on to form bands of their own—came to be known as the Bromley Contingent, after the neighbourhood several were from.Their cutting-edge fashion, much of it supplied by Sex, ignited a trend that was adopted by the new fans the band attracted.McLaren and Westwood saw the incipient London punk movement as a vehicle for more than just couture. They were both captivated by the May 1968 radical uprising in Paris, particularly by the ideology and agitations of the Situationists, as well as the anarchist thought of Buenaventura Durruti and others.These interests were shared with Jamie Reid, an old friend of McLaren's who began producing publicity material for the Sex Pistols in spring 1976. (The cut-up lettering employed to create the classic Sex Pistols logo and many subsequent designs for the band was actually introduced by McLaren's friend Helen Wellington-Lloyd.)"We used to talk to John [Lydon] a lot about the Situationists," Reid later said. "The Sex Pistols seemed the perfect vehicle to communicate ideas directly to people who weren't getting the message from left-wing politics."McLaren was also arranging for the band's first photo sessions.As described by music historian Jon Savage, "With his green hair, hunched stance and ragged look, [Lydon] looked like a cross between Uriah Heep and Richard Hell."

The first Sex Pistols gig to attract broader attention was as a supporting act for Eddie and the Hot Rods, a leading pub rock group, at the Marquee on 12 February 1976. Rotten "was now really pushing the barriers of performance, walking off stage, sitting with the audience, throwing Jordan across the dancefloor and chucking chairs around, before smashing some of Eddie and the Hot Rods' gear." The band's first review appeared in the NME, accompanied by a brief interview in which Steve Jones declared, "Actually we're not into music. We're into chaos." Among those who read the article were two students at the Bolton Institute of Technology, Howard Devoto and Pete Shelley, who headed down to London in search of the Sex Pistols. After chatting with McLaren at Sex, they saw the band at a couple of late February gigs. The two friends immediately began organizing their own Pistols-style group, the Buzzcocks. As Devoto later put it, "My life changed the moment that I saw the Sex Pistols."

The Pistols were soon playing other important venues, debuting at Oxford Street's 100 Club on 30 March.On 3 April, they played for the first time at the Nashville, supporting The 101ers. The pub rock group's lead singer, Joe Strummer, saw the Pistols for the first time that night—and recognized punk rock as the future.A return gig at the Nashville on 23 April demonstrated the band's growing musical competence, but by all accounts lacked a spark. Westwood provided that by instigating a fight with another audience member; McLaren and Rotten were soon involved in the melee.Cook later said, "That fight at the Nashville: that's when all the publicity got hold of it and the violence started creeping in.... I think everybody was ready to go and we were the catalyst."The Pistols were soon banned from both the Nashville and the Marquee.

On 23 April, as well, the debut album by the leading punk rock band in the New York scene, the Ramones, was released. Though it is regarded as seminal to the growth of punk rock in England and elsewhere, Lydon has repeatedly rejected any suggestion that it influenced the Sex Pistols: "[The Ramones] were all long-haired and of no interest to me. I didn't like their image, what they stood for, or anything about them";"They were hilarious but you can only go so far with 'duh-dur-dur-duh'. I've heard it. Next. Move on." On 11 May, the Pistols began a four-week-long Tuesday night residency at the 100 Club. They devoted the rest of the month to touring small cities and towns in the north of England and recording demos in London with producer and recording artist Chris Spedding.The following month they played their first gig in Manchester, arranged by Devoto and Shelley. The Sex Pistols' 4 June performance at the Lesser Free Trade Hall set off a punk rock boom in the city.

The Sex Pistols in performance at the 100 Club, 1976. On the right: Steve Jones (foreground) and Johnny Rotten (background).

On 4 July and 6 July, respectively, two newly formed London punk rock acts, The Clash—with Strummer as lead vocalist—and The Damned, made their live debuts opening for the Sex Pistols. On their off night in between, the Pistols (despite Lydon's later professed disdain) showed up for a Ramones gig at Dingwalls, like virtually everyone else at the heart of the London punk scene.During a return Manchester engagement, 20 July, the Pistols premiered a new song, "Anarchy in the U.K.", reflecting elements of the radical ideologies to which Rotten was being exposed. According to Jon Savage, "there seems little doubt that Lydon was fed material by Vivienne Westwood and Jamie Reid, which he then converted into his own lyric."Anarchy in the U.K." was among the seven originals recorded in another demo session that month, this one overseen by the band's sound engineer, Dave Goodman.McLaren organized a major event for 29 August at the Screen on the Green in London's Islington district: the Buzzcocks and The Clash opened for the Sex Pistols in punk's "first metropolitan test of strength" Three days later, the band were in Manchester to tape what would be their first television appearance, for Tony Wilson's So It Goes. Scheduled to perform just , at the opening of the Chalet du Lac disco in Paris. The Bromley Contingent accompanied them, with Siouxsie Sioux's swastika armband causing a stir.The following day, the So It Goes performance aired; the audience heard "Anarchy in the U.K." introduced with a shout of "Get off your arse!"On 13 Septembone song, "Anarchy in the U.K.", the band ran straight through another two numbers as pandemonium broke out in the control room.

The Sex Pistols played their first concert outside Britain on 3 September

er, the Pistols began a tour of Britain.A week later, back in London, they headlined the opening night of the 100 Club Punk Special. Organized by McLaren (for whom the word "festival" had too much of a hippie connotation), the event was "considered the moment that was the catalyst for the years to come."Belying the common perception that punk bands couldn't play their instruments, contemporary music press reviews, later critical assessments of concert recordings, and testimonials by fellow musicians indicate that the Pistols had developed into a tight, ferocious live band. As Rotten tested out wild vocalization styles, the instrumentalists experimented "with overload, feedback and distortion...pushing their equipment to the limit".y incident

On 8 October 1976, the major record label EMI signed the Sex Pistols to a two-year contract. In short order, the band was in the studio recording a full-dress session with Dave Goodman. As later described by Matlock, "The idea was to get the spirit of the live performance. We were pressurized to make it faster and faster." The riotous results were rejected. Chris Thomas, who had produced Roxy Music and mixed Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon, was brought in to produce.The band's first single, "Anarchy in the U.K.", was released on 26 November 1976.John Robb—soon to be a cofounder of The Membranes and later a music journalist—described the record's impact: "From Steve Jones' opening salvo of descending chords, to Johnny Rotten's fantastic sneering vocals, this song is the perfect statement...a stunningly powerful piece of punk politics...a lifestyle choice, a manifesto that heralds a new era". Colin Newman, who had just cofounded the band Wire, heard it as "the clarion call of a generation."

"Anarchy in the U.K." was not the first British punk single, pipped by The Damned's "New Rose". "We Vibrate" had also appeared from The Vibrators, a pub rock band formed early in 1976 that had become associated with punk—though, according to Jon Savage "with their long hair and mildly risqué name, the Vibrators were passers-by as far as punk taste-makers were concerned.Unlike those songs, whose lyrical content was comfortably within rock 'n' roll traditions, "Anarchy in the U.K." linked punk to a newly politicized attitude—the Pistols' stance was aggrieved, euphoric and nihilistic, all at the same time. Rotten's howls of "I am an anti-christ" and "Destroy!" repurposed rock as an ideological weapon.The single's packaging and visual promotion also broke new ground. Reid and McLaren came up with the notion of selling the record in a completely wordless, featureless black sleeve. The primary image associated with the single was Reid's "anarchy flag" poster: a Union Flag ripped up and partly safety-pinned back together, with the song and band names clipped along the edges of a gaping hole in the middle. This and other images created by Reid for the Sex Pistols quickly became punk icons.

The Sex Pistols' behaviour, as much as their music, brought them national attention. On 1 December 1976, the band and members of the Bromley Contingent created a storm of publicity by swearing during an early evening live broadcast of Thames Television's Today programme. Appearing as last-minute replacements for fellow EMI artists Queen, the band and their entourage were offered drinks as they waited to go on air. During the interview, Jones said the band had "fucking spent" its label advance and Rotten used the word "shit". Host Bill Grundy, who had earlier claimed to be drunk, engaged in repartee with Siouxsie Sioux, who declared that she had "always wanted to meet" him. Grundy responded, "Did you really? We'll meet afterwards, shall we?" This prompted the following exchange between Jones and the host:

Jones: You dirty sod. You dirty old man.

Grundy: Well keep going chief, keep going. Go on. You've got another five seconds. Say something outrageous.

Jones: You dirty bastard.

Grundy: Go on, again.

Jones: You dirty fucker.

Grundy: What a clever boy.

Jones: What a fucking rotter.

Daily Mirror December 1976

Although the programme was broadcast only in the London region, the ensuing furore occupied the tabloid newspapers for days. The Daily Mirror famously ran the headline "The Filth and the Fury!"other papers such as the Daily Express ("Fury at Filthy TV Chat") and the Daily Telegraph ("4-Letter Words Rock TV") followed suit. Thames Television suspended Grundy, and though he was later reinstated, the interview effectively ended his career.

The episode made the band household names throughout the country and brought punk into mainstream awareness. The Pistols set out on the Anarchy Tour of the UK, supported by The Clash and Johnny Thunders' band The Heartbreakers, over from New York. The Damned were briefly part of the tour, before McLaren kicked them off. Media coverage was intense, and many of the concerts were cancelled by organizers or local authorities; of approximately twenty scheduled gigs, only about seven actually took place. Following a campaign waged in the south Wales press, a crowd including carol singers and a Pentecostal preacher protested against the group outside a show in Caerphilly. Packers at the EMI plant refused to handle the band's single. London councillor Bernard Brook Partridge declared, "Most of these groups would be vastly improved by sudden death. The worst of the punk rock groups I suppose currently are the Sex Pistols. They are unbelievably nauseating. They are the antithesis of humankind. I would like to see somebody dig a very, very large, exceedingly deep hole and drop the whole bloody lot down it."

Following the end of the tour in late December, three concerts were arranged in Holland for January 1977. The band, hungover, boarded a plane at London Heathrow Airport early on 4 January; a few hours later, the Evening News was reporting that the band had "vomited and spat their way" to the flight.Despite categorical denials by the EMI representative who accompanied the group, the label, which was under political pressure, released the band from their contract.As McLaren fielded offers from other labels, the band went into the studio for a round of recordings with Goodman, their last with either him or Matlock.

Sid Vicious joins the band

In February 1977, word leaked out that Matlock was leaving the Sex Pistols. On 28 February, McLaren sent a telegram to the NME confirming the split. He claimed that Matlock had been "thrown out...because he went on too long about Paul McCartney.... The Beatles was too much."In an interview a few months afterwards, Steve Jones echoed the charge that Matlock had been sacked because he "liked The Beatles".Years later, Jones expanded on the matter of the band's issues with Matlock: "He was a good writer but he didn't look like a Sex Pistol and he was always washing his feet. His mum didn't like the songs." Matlock told the NME that he had voluntarily left the band by "mutual agreement".Later, in his autobiography, he would describe the primary impetus as his increasingly acrimonious relationship with Rotten, exacerbated—in Matlock's account—by the rampant inflation of Rotten's ego "once he'd had his name in the papers". Lydon would later claim that "God Save the Queen", the belligerently sardonic song planned as the band's second single, had been the final straw: "[Matlock] couldn't handle those kinds of lyrics. He said it declared us fascists." Though the singer could hardly see how anti-royalism equated with fascism, he claimed, "Just to get rid of him, I didn't deny it."Jon Savage suggests that Rotten pushed Matlock out in an effort to demonstrate his power and autonomy from McLaren.Matlock almost immediately formed his own band, Rich Kids, with Midge Ure, Steve New, and Rusty Egan.

Warner Bros. Records, the Sex Pistols' American label, found this an appropriate image with which to promote Sid Vicious

Matlock was replaced by Rotten's friend and self-appointed "ultimate Sex Pistols fan" Sid Vicious. Born John Simon Ritchie, later known as John Beverley, Vicious was previously drummer of two inner circle punk bands, Siouxsie and the Banshees and The Flowers of Romance. He was also credited with introducing the pogo dance to the scene at the 100 Club. John Robb claims it was at the first Sex Pistols residency gig, 11 May 1976; Matlock is convinced it happened during the second night of the 100 Club Punk Special in September, when the Pistols were off playing in Wales. In Matlock's description, Rotten wanted Vicious in the band because "[i]nstead of him against Steve and Paul, it would become him and Sid against Steve and Paul. He always thought of it in terms of opposing camps".Julien Temple, then a film student whom McLaren had put on the Sex Pistols payroll to create a comprehensive audiovisual record of the band, concurs: "Sid was John's protégé in the group, really. The other two just thought he was crazy."McLaren later stated that, much earlier in the band's career, Vivienne Westwood had told him he should "get the guy called John who came to the store a couple of times" to be the singer. When Johnny Rotten was recruited for the band, Westwood said McLaren had got it wrong: "he had got the wrong John." It was John Beverley, the future Vicious, she had been recommending.McLaren approved the belated inclusion of Vicious, who had virtually no experience on his new instrument, on account of his look and reputation in the punk scene.

Pogoing aside, Vicious had been involved in a notorious incident during that memorable second night of the 100 Club Punk Special. Arrested for hurling a glass at The Damned that shattered and blinded a girl in one eye, he had served time in a remand centre—and contributed to the 100 Club banning all punk bands.At a previous 100 Club gig, he had assaulted Nick Kent with a bicycle chain. Indeed, McLaren's NME telegram said that Vicious's "best credential was he gave Nick Kent what he deserved many months ago at the Hundred Club".According to a later description by McLaren, "When Sid joined he couldn't play guitar but his craziness fit into the structure of the band. He was the knight in shining armour with a giant fist"Everyone agreed he had the look," Lydon later recalled, but musical skill was another matter. "The first rehearsals...in March of 1977 with Sid were hellish.... Sid really tried hard and rehearsed a lot".Marco Pirroni, who had performed with Vicious in Siouxsie and the Banshees, has said, "After that, it was nothing to do with music anymore. It would just be for the sensationalism and scandal of it all. Then it became the Malcolm McLaren story".

Membership in the Sex Pistols had a progressively destructive effect on Vicious. As Lydon later observed, "Up to that time, Sid was absolutely childlike. Everything was fun and giggly. Suddenly he was a big pop star. Pop star status meant press, a good chance to be spotted in all the right places, adoration. That's what it all meant to Sid." Westwood had already been feeding him material, like a tome on Charles Manson, likely to encourage his worst instincts.Early in 1977, he met Nancy Spungen, an emotionally disturbed drug addict and sometime prostitute from New York.Spungen is commonly thought to be responsible for introducing Vicious to heroin, and the emotional codependency between the couple alienated Vicious from the other members of the band. Lydon later wrote, "We did everything to get rid of Nancy.... She was killing him. I was absolutely convinced this girl was on a slow suicide mission.... Only she didn't want to go alone. She wanted to take Sid with her.... She was so utterly fucked up and evil."

“God Save the Queen”

On 10 March 1977, at a press ceremony held outside Buckingham Palace, the Sex Pistols publicly signed to A&M Records (the real signing had taken place the day before). Afterwards, intoxicated, they made their way to the A&M offices. Vicious smashed in a toilet bowl and cut his foot (there is some disagreement about which happened first). As Vicious trailed blood around the offices, Rotten verbally abused the staff and Jones got frisky in the ladies' room.A couple of days later, the Pistols got into a rumble with another band at a club; one of Rotten's pals threatened the life of a good friend of A&M's English director. On 16 March, A&M broke contract with the Pistols. Twenty-five thousand copies of the planned "God Save the Queen" single, produced by Chris Thomas, had already been pressed; virtually all were destroyed.

Jamie Reid's "God Save the Queen" sleeve; in 2001, it was named the greatest record cover of all time by Q magazine.

Vicious debuted with the band at London's Notre Dame Hall on 28 March. In May, the band signed with Virgin Records, their third new label in little more than half a year. Virgin was more than ready to release "God Save the Queen", but new obstacles arose. Workers at the pressing plant laid down their tools in protest at the song's content. Jamie Reid's now famous cover, showing Queen Elizabeth II with her features obscured by the song and band names in cutout letters, offended the sleeve's platemakers.After much talk, production resumed and the record was finally released on 27 May.

The scabrous lyrics—"God save the queen/She ain't no human being/And there's no future/In England's dreaming"—prompted widespread outcry.Several major chains refused to stock the single.It was banned not only by the BBC but also by every independent radio station, making it the "most heavily censored record in British history". Rotten boasted, "We're the only honest band that's hit this planet in about two thousand million years."Jones shrugged off everything the song stated and implied—or took nihilism to a logical endpoint: "I don't see how anyone could describe us as a political band. I don't even know the name of the Prime Minister."The song, and its public impact, are now recognized as "punk's crowning glory".

The Virgin release had been timed to coincide with the height of Queen Elizabeth's Silver Jubilee celebrations. By Jubilee weekend, a week and a half after the record's release, it had sold more than 150,000 copies—a massive success. On 7 June, McLaren and the record label arranged to charter a private boat and have the Sex Pistols perform while sailing down the River Thames, passing Westminster Pier and the Houses of Parliament. The event, a mockery of the Queen's river procession planned for two days later, ended in chaos. Police launches forced the boat to dock, and constabulary surrounded the gangplanks at the pier. While the band members and their equipment were hustled down a side stairwell, McLaren, Westwood, and many of the band's entourage were arrested.

With the official UK record chart for Jubilee week about to be released, the Daily Mirror predicted that "God Save the Queen" would be number one. As it turned out, the record placed second, behind a Rod Stewart single in its fourth week at the top. Many believed that the record had actually qualified for the top spot, but that the chart had been rigged to prevent a spectacle. McLaren later claimed that CBS Records, which was distributing both singles, told him that the Sex Pistols were actually outselling Stewart two to one. There is evidence that an exceptional directive was issued by the British Phonographic Institute, which oversaw the chart-compiling bureau, to exclude sales from record-company operated shops such as Virgin's for that week only.

Violent attacks on punk fans were on the rise. In mid-June Rotten himself was assaulted by a knife-wielding gang outside Islington's Pegasus pub, causing tendon damage to his left arm. Jamie Reid and Paul Cook were beaten up in other incidents; three days after the Pegasus assault, Rotten was attacked again.A tour of Scandinavia, planned to start at the end of the month, was consequently delayed until mid-July. During the tour, a Swedish interviewer observed to Jones that "a lot of people" regarded the band as McLaren's "creation". Jones replied, "He's our manager, that's all. He's got nothing to do with the music or the image...he's just a good manager."In another interview, Rotten professed bafflement at the furore surrounding the group: "I don't understand it. All we're trying to do is destroy everything."At the end of August came SPOTS—Sex Pistols On Tour Secretly, a surreptitious UK tour with the band playing under pseudonyms to avoid cancellation.

McLaren had wanted for some time to make a movie featuring the Sex Pistols. Julien Temple's first major task had been to assemble Sex Pistols Number 1, a twenty-five-minute mosaic of footage from various sources, much of it refilmed by Temple from television screens. Number 1 was often screened at concert venues before the band took the stage. Using media footage from the Thames incident, Temple created another propagandistic short, Jubilee Riverboat (aka Sex Pistols Number 2).During summer 1977, McLaren had been making arrangements for the feature film of his dreams, Who Killed Bambi?, to be directed by Russ Meyer from a script by Roger Ebert. After a single day of shooting, 11 September, production ceased when it became clear that McLaren had failed to arrange financing.

Never Mind the Bollock

Since the spring of 1977, the three senior Sex Pistols had been returning to the studio periodically with Chris Thomas to lay down the tracks for the band's debut album. Initially to be called God Save Sex Pistols, it became known during the summer as Never Mind the Bollocks.According to Jones, "Sid wanted to come down and play on the album, and we tried as hard as possible not to let him anywhere near the studio. Luckily he had hepatitis at the time."Cook later described how many of the instrumental tracks were built up from drum and guitar parts, rather than the usual drum and bass.

Given Vicious's incompetence, Matlock had been invited to record as a session musician. In his autobiography, Matlock says he agreed to "help out", but then suggests that he cut all ties after McLaren issued the 28 February NME telegram announcing Matlock had been fired for liking the Beatles. In fact, Matlock did play as a hired hand on 3 March, for what Jon Savage describes as an "audition session".In his autobiography, Lydon claims that Matlock's work-for-hire for his ex-band was extensive—much more so than any other source reports—seemingly to amplify a putdown: "I think I'd rather die than do something like that."Music historian David Howard states unambiguously that Matlock did not perform on any of the Never Mind the Bollocks recording sessions.It was Jones who ultimately played most of the bass parts during the Bollocks recordings; Howard calls his rudimentary, rumbling approach the "explosive missing ingredient" of the Sex Pistols' sound.Vicious's bass is reportedly present on one track that appeared on the original album release, "Bodies". Jones recalls, "He played his farty old bass part and we just let him do it. When he left I dubbed another part on, leaving Sid's down low. I think it might be barely audible on the track."Following "God Save the Queen", two more singles were released from these sessions, "Pretty Vacant" (largely written by Matlock) on 1 July and "Holidays in the Sun" on 14 October. Each was a Top Ten hit.

Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols (which includes "Anarchy in the U.K." and another earlier recording, "No Feelings") was released on 28 October 1977.Rolling Stone praised the album as "just about the most exciting rock & roll record of the Seventies", applauding the band for playing "with an energy and conviction that is positively transcendent in its madness and fever". Some critics, disappointed that the album contained all four previously released singles, dismissed it as little more than a "greatest hits" record. Containing both "Bodies"—in which Rotten utters "fuck" six times—and the previously censored "God Save the Queen" and featuring the word bollocks (popular slang for testicles) in its title, the album was banned by Boots, W. H. Smith and Woolworth's.The Conservative shadow minister for education condemned it as "a symptom of the way society is declining" and both the Independent Television Companies' Association and the Association of Independent Radio Contractors banned its advertisements.Nonetheless, advance sales were sufficient to make it an undeniable number one on the album chart.

U.S. poster for Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols

The album title led to a legal case that attracted considerable attention: a Virgin Records store in Nottingham that put the album in its window was threatened with prosecution for displaying "indecent printed matter". The case was thrown out when defending QC John Mortimer produced an expert witness who established that bollocks was an Old English term for a small ball, that it appeared in place names without causing local communities erotic disturbance, and that in the nineteenth century it had been used as a nickname for clergymen: "Clergymen are known to talk a good deal of rubbish and so the word later developed the meaning of nonsense." In the context of the Pistols' album title, the term does in fact primarily signify "nonsense". Steve Jones off-handedly came up with the title as the band debated what to call the album. An exasperated Jones said, "Oh, fuck it, never mind the bollocks of it all."

After playing a few dates in Holland—the beginning of a planned multinational tour—the band set out on a Never Mind the Bans tour of Britain in December 1977. Of eight scheduled dates, four were cancelled due to illness or political pressure. On Christmas Day, the Sex Pistols played two shows at Ivanhoe's in Huddersfield. Before a regular evening concert, the band performed a benefit matinee for the children of "striking firemen, laid-off workers and one-parent families."These would turn out to be the band's final UK performances.

US tour and the end of the band

In January 1978, the Sex Pistols embarked on a US tour, consisting mainly of dates in America's Deep South. Originally scheduled to begin a few days before New Year's, it was delayed due to American authorities' reluctance to issue visas to band members with criminal records. Several dates in the North had to be cancelled as a result.^[136][145] Though highly anticipated by fans and media, the tour was plagued by in-fighting, poor planning and physically belligerent audiences. McLaren later admitted that he purposely booked redneck bars to provoke hostile situations. Over the course of the two weeks, Vicious, by now heavily addicted to heroin,began to live up to his stage name. "He finally had an audience of people who would behave with shock and horror", Lydon later wrote. "Sid was easily led by the nose."

Early in the tour, Vicious wandered off from his Holiday Inn in Memphis, Tennessee, looking for drugs. He was found in a hospital, having carved the words "Gimme a fix" in his chest with a razor. During a concert in San Antonio, Texas, Vicious called the crowd "a bunch of faggots", before striking an audience member across the head with his bass guitar.In Baton Rouge, Louisiana, he received simulated oral sex on stage, later declaring "that’s the kind of girl I like".Suffering from heroin withdrawal during a show in Dallas, Texas, he spat blood at a woman who had climbed onstage and punched him in the face.He was admitted to hospital later that night to treat various injuries. Offstage he is said to have kicked a female photographer, attacked a security guard, and eventually challenged one of his own bodyguards to a fight—beaten up, he is reported to have exclaimed, "I like you. Now we can be friends."

Rotten, meanwhile, suffering from fluand coughing up blood, felt increasingly isolated from Cook and Jones, and disgusted by Vicious.On 14 January 1978, during the tour's final date at the Winterland Ballroom in San Francisco, a disillusioned Rotten introduced the band's encore saying, "You'll get one number and one number only 'cause I'm a lazy bastard." That one number was a Stooges cover, "No Fun". At the end of the song, Rotten, kneeling on the stage, chanted an unambiguous declaration, "This is no fun. No fun. This is no fun—at all. No fun." As the final cymbal crash died away, Rotten addressed the audience directly—"Ah-ha-ha. Ever get the feeling you've been cheated? Good night"—before throwing down his microphone and walking offstage. He later observed, "I felt cheated, and I wasn't going on with it any longer; it was a ridiculous farce. Sid was completely out of his brains—just a waste of space. The whole thing was a joke at that point.... [Malcolm] wouldn't speak to me.... He would not discuss anything with me. But then he would turn around and tell Paul and Steve that the tension was all my fault because I wouldn't agree to anything."

On 17 January, the band split, making their ways separately to Los Angeles. McLaren, Cook and Jones prepared to fly to Rio de Janeiro for a working vacation. Vicious, in increasingly bad shape, was taken to Los Angeles by a friend, who then brought him to New York, where he was immediately hospitalized. Rotten later described his own situation: "The Sex Pistols left me, stranded in Los Angeles with no ticket, no hotel room, and a message to Warner Bros saying that if anyone phones up claiming to be Johnny Rotten, then they were lying. That's how I finished with Malcolm—but not with the rest of the band; I'll always like them."Rotten flew to New York, where he announced the band's break-up in a newspaper interview on 18 January. Virtually broke, he telephoned the head of Virgin Records, Richard Branson, who agreed to pay for his flight back to London, via Jamaica. In Jamaica, Branson met with members of the band Devo, and tried to install Rotten as their lead singer. Devo declined the offer.

Cook, Jones and Vicious never performed together again live after Rotten's departure. Over the next several months, McLaren arranged for recordings in Brazil (with Jones and Cook), Paris (with Vicious) and London; each of the three and others stepped in as lead vocalists on tracks that in some cases were far from what punk was expected to sound like. These recordings were to make up the musical soundtrack for the reconceived Pistols feature film project, directed by Julian Temple, to which McLaren was now devoting himself. On 30 June, a single credited to the Sex Pistols was released: on one side, notorious criminal Ronnie Biggs sang "No One Is Innocent" accompanied by Jones and Cook; on the other, Vicious sang the classic "My Way", over both a Jones–Cook backing track and a string orchestra. The single reached number seven on the charts, eventually outselling all the singles with which Rotten was involved.McLaren was seeking to reconstitute the band with a permanent new frontman, but Vicious—McLaren's first choice—had sickened of him. In return for agreeing to record "My Way", Vicious had demanded that McLaren sign a sheet of paper declaring that he was no longer Vicious's manager. In August, Vicious, back in London, delivered his final performances as a nominal Sex Pistol: recording and filming cover versions of two Eddie Cochran songs. The bassist's return to New York in September put paid to McLaren's dreaming.

After the break-up

After leaving the Pistols, Johnny Rotten reverted to his birth name of Lydon, and formed Public Image Ltd. (PiL) with former Clash member Keith Levene and school friend Jah Wobble.The band went on to score a UK Top Ten hit with their debut single, 1978's "Public Image". Lydon initiated legal proceedings against McLaren and the Sex Pistols' management company, Glitterbest, which McLaren controlled. Among the claims were non-payment of royalties, improper usage of the title "Johnny Rotten", unfair contractual obligations,and damages for "all the criminal activities that took place".In 1979, PiL recorded the post-punk classic Metal Box. Lydon performed with the band through 1992, as well as engaging in other projects such as Time Zone with Afrika Bambaataa and Bill Laswell.

Vicious, relocated in New York, began performing as a solo artist, with Nancy Spungen acting as his manager. He recorded a live album, backed by "The Idols" featuring Arthur Kane and Jerry Nolan of the New York Dolls—Sid Sings was released in 1979. On 12 October 1978, Spungen was found dead in the Hotel Chelsea room she was sharing with Vicious, with stab wounds to her stomach and dressed only in her underwear.Police recovered drug paraphernalia from the scene and Vicious was arrested and charged with her murder. In an interview at the time, McLaren said, "I can't believe he was involved in such a thing. Sid was set to marry Nancy in New York. He was very close to her and had quite a passionate affair with her."(Evidence subsequently revealed points strongly to heroin dealer and sometime actor Rockets Redglare as Spungen's killer.)While free on bail, Vicious smashed a beer mug in the face of Todd Smith, Patti Smith's brother, and was arrested again on an assault charge. On 9 December 1978 he was sent to Rikers Island jail, where he spent 55 days and underwent enforced cold-turkey detox. He was released on 1 February 1979; sometime after midnight, following a small party to celebrate his release, Vicious died of a heroin overdose.He was twenty-one. Reflecting on the event, Lydon said, "Poor Sid. The only way he could live up to what he wanted everyone to believe about him was to die. That was tragic, but more for Sid than anyone else. He really bought his public image."

On 7 February 1979, just five days after Vicious's death, hearings began in London on Lydon's lawsuit. Cook and Jones were allied with McLaren, but as evidence mounted that their manager had poured virtually all of the band's revenue into his beloved film project, they switched sides. On 14 February, the court put the film and its soundtrack into receivership—no longer under McLaren's control, they were now to be administered as exploitable assets for addressing the band members' financial claims. McLaren, with substantial personal debts and legal fees, took off for Paris to sign a record deal for an LP of standards, including "Non, je ne regrette rien". A month later, back in London, he disassociated himself from the film to which he had devoted so much time and money. McLaren went on to manage Adam and the Ants and Bow Wow Wow. In the mid-1980s he released a number of successful and influential records as a solo artist.

The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle, the soundtrack album for the still-uncompleted film, was released by Virgin Records on 24 February 1979. It is mostly composed of tracks credited to the Sex Pistols: There are the new recordings with vocals by Jones, Vicious, Cook, and Ronnie Biggs, as well as Edward Tudor-Pole, briefly considered as a permanent replacement for Rotten. McLaren himself takes the mic for a couple of numbers. Several tracks feature Rotten's vocals from early, unissued sessions, in some cases with re-recorded backing by Jones and Cook. There is one live cut, from the band's final concert in San Francisco. The album is completed by a couple of tracks in which other artists cover Sex Pistols classics.Four Top Ten singles were culled from the Swindle recordings, one more than had appeared on Never Mind the Bollocks. The 1978 "No One Is Innocent"/"My Way" was followed in 1979 by Vicious's cover of "Something Else" (number three, and the biggest-selling single ever under the Sex Pistols name); Jones singing an original, "Silly Thing" (number six); and Vicious's second Cochran cover, "C'mon Everybody" (number three). Two more singles from the soundtrack were put out under the Pistols brand—Tudor-Pole, among others, singing "The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle" and a Rotten vocal from 1976, "(I'm Not Your) Steppin' Stone"; both fell just shy of the Top Twenty.On 21 November 1980, the final "new" studio recordings attributed to the Sex Pistols were released by Virgin: "Black Leather" and "Here We Go Again", recorded by Jones and Cook during the mid-1978 Swindle sessions, were paired as one of a half-dozen 7-inch records (the other five reconfiguring previously released material) sold together as Sex Pack.

The Sex Pistols film was completed by Temple, who received sole credit for the script after McLaren had his name taken off the production. Finally released in 1980, The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle still largely reflects McLaren's vision. It is a fictionalized, farcical, partially animated retelling of the band's history and aftermath with McLaren in the lead role, Jones as second lead, and contributions from Vicious (including his memorable performance of "My Way") and Cook. It incorporates promotional videos shot for "God Save the Queen" and "Pretty Vacant" and extensive documentary footage as well, much of it focusing on Rotten. In Temple's description, he and McLaren conceived it as a "very stylized...polemic". They were reacting to the fact that the Pistols had become the "poster on the bedroom wall of the day where you kneel down last thing at night and pray to your rock god. And that was never the point.... The myth had to be dynamited in some way. We had to make this film in a way to enrage the fans".In the film, McLaren claims to have created the band from scratch and engineered its notorious reputation; much of what structure the loose narrative has is based on McLaren's teaching a series of "lessons" to be learned from "an invention of mine they called the punk rock".

Cook and Jones continued to work through guest appearances and as session musicians. In 1980, they formed The Professionals, which lasted for two years. Jones went on to play with the bands Chequered Past and Neurotic Outsiders. He also recorded two solo albums, Mercy and Fire and Gasoline. Now a resident of Los Angeles, he hosts a daily radio program called Jonesy's Jukebox. Having played with the band Chiefs of Relief in the late 1980s and with Edwyn Collins in the 1990s,Cook is now a member of Man Raze. Following The Rich Kids' break-up in 1979, Matlock played with various bands, toured with Iggy Pop, and recorded several solo albums. He is currently a member of Slinky Vagabond.

The 1979 court ruling had left many issues between Lydon and McLaren unresolved. Five years later, Lydon filed another action. Finally, on 16 January 1986, Lydon, Jones, Cook and the estate of Sid Vicious were awarded control of the band's heritage, including the rights to The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle and all the footage shot for it—more than 250 hours.That same year, a fictionalized film account of Vicious's relationship with Spungen was released: Sid and Nancy, directed by Alex Cox. In his autobiography, Lydon lambastes the film, saying that it "celebrates heroin addiction", goes out of its way to "humiliate [Vicious's] life", and completely misrepresents the Sex Pistols' part in the London punk scene.

Reunions and later group activities

The original four Sex Pistols reunited in 1996 for the six-month Filthy Lucre Tour, which included dates in Europe, North and South America, Australia and Japan.The band members' access to the archives associated with The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle facilitated the production of the 2000 documentary The Filth and the Fury. This film—directed, like its predecessor, by Temple—was formulated as an attempt to tell the story from the band's point of view, in contrast to Swindle's focus on McLaren and the media.In 2002—the year of the Queen's Golden Jubilee—the Sex Pistols reunited again to play the Crystal Palace National Sports Centre in London. In 2003, their Piss Off Tour took them around North America for three weeks.

On 9 March 2006, the band sold the rights to their back catalogue to Universal Music Group. The sale was criticized by some commentators as a "sell out".In November 2006, the Sex Pistols were inducted to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, whose citation named Vicious as well as the four living members.The band rejected the honour in coarse language on their website. In a television interview, Lydon accompanied a suggestion that the Hall of Fame "Kiss this!" with an obscene gesture.According to Jones, "Once you want to be put into a museum, Rock & Roll's over; it's not voted by fans, it's voted by people who induct you, or others; people who are already in it."

The Sex Pistols reunited again for five gigs at the Brixton Academy and one each in Manchester and Glasgow in November 2007.In 2008, they undertook a series of European festival appearances, titled the Combine Harvester Tour. In August, they performed at Budapest's Sziget Festival and at the Dutch festival Lowlands. Lowlands director Eric van Eerdenburg declared the Pistols' performance "saddening": "They left their swimming pools at home only to scoop up some money here. Really, they're nothing more than that."They later played at the Hammersmith Apollo. That same year, they released the DVD There'll Always Be An England, recorded at their Brixton Academy appearance on 10 November 2007.In 2010, Fragrance and Beauty Limited announced the release of an authorized Sex Pistols scent. According to a statement from the cosmetics firm, "the fragrance exudes pure energy, pared down and pumped up by leather, shot through with heliotrope and brought back down to earth by a raunchy patchouli." The band signed with Universal Music Group in 2012 to rerelease Never Mind the Bollocks.

Cultural influence

The Trouser Press Record Guide entry on the Sex Pistols declares that "their importance—both to the direction of contemporary music and more generally to pop culture—can hardly be overstated". Rolling Stone has argued that the band, "in direct opposition to the star trappings and complacency" of mid-1970s rock, "came to spark and personify one of the few truly critical moments in pop culture—the rise of punk."In 2004, the magazine ranked the Sex Pistols #58 on its list of the "100 Greatest Artists of All Time". Leading music critic Dave Marsh called them "unquestionably the most radical new rock band of the Seventies."

Although the Sex Pistols were not the first punk band, the few recordings that were released during the band's brief initial existence were singularly catalytic expressions of the punk movement. The releases of "Anarchy in the U.K.", "God Save the Queen" and Never Mind the Bollocks are counted among the most important events in the history of popular music. Never Mind the Bollocks is regularly cited in accountings of all-time great albums: In 2006, it was voted #28 in Q magazine's "100 Greatest Albums Ever", while Rolling Stone listed it at #2 in its 1987 "Top 100 Albums of the Last 20 Years".It has come to be recognized as among the most influential records in rock history.An Allmusic critique describes it as "one of the greatest, most inspiring rock records of all time".

The Sex Pistols directly inspired the style, and often the formation itself, of many punk and post-punk bands during their first two-and-a-half-year run. The Clash,Siouxsie and the Banshees,The Adverts,^[197] Vic Godard of Subway Sect,^[198] and Ari Up of The Slits^[199] are among those in London's "inner circle" of early punk bands that credit the Pistols. Pauline Murray of Durham punk band Penetration saw the Pistols perform for the first time in Northallerton in May 1976. She later explained their importance,

Nothing would have happened without the Pistols. It was like, "Wow, I believe in this." What they were saying was: "It's a load of shite. I'm going to do what I do and I don't care what people think." That was the key to it. People forget that, but it was the main ideology for me: we don't care what you think—you're shit anyway. It was the attitude that got people moving, as well as the music.

The Sex Pistols' 4 June 1976 concert at Manchester's Lesser Free Trade Hall was to become one of the most significant and mythologized events in rock history. Among the audience of merely forty people or so were many who became leading figures in the punk and post-punk movements: Pete Shelley and Howard Devoto, who organized the gig and were in the process of auditioning new members for the Buzzcocks; Bernard Sumner, Ian Curtis and Peter Hook, later of Joy Division; Mark E. Smith, later of The Fall; and Morrissey, later of The Smiths. Anthony H. Wilson, founder of Factory Records, saw the band for the first time at the return engagement on 20 July.Among the many musicians of a later time who have acknowledged their debt to the Pistols are members of NOFX The Stone Roses,Guns N' Roses,Nirvana,Green Day, and Oasis.Describing the band as "immensely influential", a London College of Music study guide notes that "many styles of popular music, such as grunge, indie, thrash metal and even rap owe their foundations to the legacy of ground breaking punk bands—of which the Sex Pistols was the most prominent."

According to the Trouser Press Record Guide, "the Pistols and manager/provocateur Malcolm McLaren challenged every aspect and precept of modern music-making, thereby inspiring countless groups to follow their cue onto stages around the world. A confrontational, nihilistic public image and rabidly nihilistic socio-political lyrics set the tone that continues to guide punk bands." Critic Toby Creswell locates the primary source of inspiration somewhat differently. Noting that "[i]mage to the contrary, the Pistols were very serious about music", he argues, "The real rebel yell came from Jones' guitars: a mass wall of sound based on the most simple, retro guitar riffs. Essentially, the Sex Pistols reinforced what the garage bands of the '60s had demonstrated—you don't need technique to make rock & roll. In a time when music had been increasingly complicated and defanged, the Sex Pistols' generational shift caused a real revolution."

An image of Vicious lacrimosa in Madrid, 2006

Along with their abundant musical influence, the Sex Pistols' cultural reverberations are evident elsewhere. Jamie Reid's work for the band is regarded as among the most important graphic design of the 1970s and still impacts the field in the 21st century.By the age of twenty-one, Sid Vicious was already a "t-shirt-selling icon".While the manner of his death signified for many the inevitable failure of punk's social ambitions, it cemented his image as an archetype of doomed youth.British punk fashion, still widely influential, is now customarily credited to Westwood and McLaren; as Johnny Rotten, Lydon had a lasting effect as well, especially through his bricolage approach to personal style: he "would wear a velvet collared drape jacket (ted) festooned with safety pins (Jackie Curtis through the New York punk scene), massive pin-stripe pegs (modernist), a pin-collar Wemblex (mod) customised into an Anarchy shirt (punk) and brothel creepers (ted)." Christopher Nolan, director of the Batman movie The Dark Knight, has said that Rotten inspired the characterization of The Joker, played by Heath Ledger. According to Nolan, "We very much took the view in looking at the character of the Joker that what's strong about him is this idea of anarchy. This commitment to anarchy, this commitment to chaos."Ledger's costar Christian Bale has claimed that Ledger drew inspiration from watching tapes of Vicious.

Conceptual basis and the question of credit

The Sex Pistols were defined by ambitions that went well beyond the musical—indeed, McLaren was at times openly contemptuous of the band's music and punk rock generally. "Christ, if people bought the records for the music, this thing would have died a death long ago," he said in 1977.The degree to which the Pistols' anti-establishment stance resulted from the members' spontaneous attitudes as opposed to being cultivated by McLaren and his associates is a matter of debate—as is the very nature of that stance itself. Deprecating the music, McLaren elevated the concept, for which he later took full credit. He would claim that the Sex Pistols were his personal, Situationist-style art project: "I decided to use people, just the way a sculptor uses clay."But what had he supposedly made? The Sex Pistols were as substantial as pop culture could get: "Punk became the most important cultural phenomenon of the late 20th century", McLaren would later assert. "Its authenticity stands out against the karaoke ersatz culture of today, where everything and everyone is for sale.... [P]unk is not, and never was, for sale." Or they were a cynical con: something with which "to sell trousers", as McLaren said in 1989;a "carefully planned exercise to embezzle as much money as possible out of the music industry", as Jon Savage characterizes McLaren's core theme in The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle; "cash from chaos" as the movie repeatedly puts it.

Lydon, in turn, would dismiss McLaren's influence: "We made our own scandal just by being ourselves. Maybe it was that he knew he was redundant, so he overcompensated. All the talk about the French Situationists being associated with punk is bollocks. It's nonsense!" Cook concurs: "Situationism had nothing to do with us. The Jamie Reids and Malcolms were excited because we were the real thing. I suppose we were what they were dreaming of."According to Lydon, "If we had an aim, it was to force our own, working-class opinions into the mainstream, which was unheard of in pop music at the time."

Toby Creswell argues that the "Sex Pistols' agenda was inchoate, to say the least. It was a general call to rebellion that falls apart at the slightest scrutiny."Critic Ian Birch, writing in 1981, called "stupid" the claim that the Sex Pistols "had any political significance.... If they did anything, they made a lot of people content with being nothing. They certainly didn't inspire the working classes."While the Conservative triumph in 1979 may be taken as evidence for that position, Julian Temple has noted that the scene inspired by the Sex Pistols "wasn't your kind of two-up, two-down working class normal families, most of it. It was over the edge of the precipice in social terms. They were actually giving a voice to an area of the working class that was almost beyond the pale."Within a year of "Anarchy in the U.K." that voice was being echoed widely: scores if not hundreds of punk bands had formed across the country—groups composed largely of working-class members or middle-class members who rejected their own class values and pursued solidarity with the working class.

In 1980, critic Greil Marcus reflected on McLaren's contradictory posture:

It may be that in the mind of their self-celebrated Svengali...the Sex Pistols were never meant to be more than a nine-month wonder, a cheap vehicle for some fast money, a few laughs, a touch of the old épater la bourgeoisie. It may also be that in the mind of their chief terrorist and propagandist, anarchist veteran...and Situational artist McLaren, the Sex Pistols were meant to be a force that would set the world on its ear...and finally unite music and politics. The Sex Pistols were all of these things.

A couple of years before, Marcus had identified different roots underlying the band's merger of music and politics, arguing that they "have absorbed from reggae and the Rastas the idea of a culture that will make demands on those in power which no government could ever satisfy; a culture that will be exclusive, almost separatist, yet also messianic, apocalyptic and stoic, and that will ignore or smash any contradiction inherent in such a complexity of stances."Critic Sean Campbell has discussed how Lydon's Irish Catholic heritage both facilitated his entrée into London's reggae scene and complicated his position vis-à-vis the ethnically English working class—the background his bandmates had in common.

Johnny Rotten wearing a Westwood-designed "Destroy" T-shirt, echoing Rotten's yawp at the end of "Anarchy in the U.K."

Critic Bill Wyman acknowledges that Lydon's "fierce intelligence and astonishing onstage charisma" were important catalysts, but ultimately finds the band's real meaning lies in McLaren's provocative media manipulations.While some of the Sex Pistols' public affronts were plotted by McLaren, Westwood, and company, others were evidently not—including what McLaren himself cites as the "pivotal moment that changed everything",the clash on the Bill Grundy Today show. "Malcolm milked situations", says Cook, "he didn't instigate them; that was always our own doing." It is also hard to ascribe the effect of the Sex Pistols' early Manchester shows on that city's nascent punk scene to anyone other than the musicians themselves. Matlock later wrote that at the point when he left the band, it was beginning to occur to him that McLaren "was in fact quite deliberately perpetrating that idea of us as his puppets.... However, on the other hand, I've since found out that even Malcolm wasn't as aware of what he was up to as he has since made out."By his absence, Matlock demonstrated how crucial he was to the band's creativity: in the eleven months between his departure and the Pistols' demise, they composed only two songs.

Music historian Simon Reynolds argues that McLaren came into his own as an auteur only after the group's break-up, with The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle and the recruitment of Ronnie Biggs as a vocalist. Much subsequent commentary on the Sex Pistols has relied on taking seriously McLaren's onscreen proclamations in the film, whether lending them credence or not. As music journalist Dave Thompson noted in 2000, "[T]oday, Swindle is viewed by many as the truth"(despite the fact that the movie purveys, among other things, a completely illiterate Steve Jones, a talking dog, and Sid Vicious shooting audience members, including his mother, at the conclusion of "My Way"). Temple points out that McLaren's characterization was intended as "a big fucking joke—that he was the puppetmeister who created these pieces of clay from plasticine boxes that he modeled away and made Johnny Rotten, made Sid Vicious. It was a joke that they were completely manufactured." (In his final onscreen scene in the film, McLaren declares that he was planning the Sex Pistols affair, "Ever since I was ten years old! Ever since Elvis Presley joined the army!" [1956 and 1958, respectively].) Temple acknowledges that McLaren ultimately "perhaps took this too much to heart."

According to Pistols tour manager Noel Monk and journalist Jimmy Guterman, Lydon was much more than "the band's mouthpiece. He's its raging brain. McLaren or his friend Jamie Reid might drop a word like 'anarchy' or 'vacant' that Rotten seizes upon and turns into a manifesto, but McLaren is not the Svengali to Rotten he'd like to be perceived as. McLaren thought he was working with a tabula rasa, but he soon found out that Rotten has ideas of his own". On the other hand, there is little disagreement about McLaren's marketing talent and his crucial role in making the band a subcultural phenomenon soon after its debut.Temple adds that "he catalyzed so many people's heads. He had so many just extraordinary ideas". Though, as Jon Savage emphasizes, "In fact, it was Steve Jones who first had the idea of putting the group, or any group, together with McLaren. He chose McLaren, not vice versa."

Members

• Johnny Rotten – lead vocals (1975–1978, 1996–present)
• Steve Jones – guitar, bass guitar (studio), backing vocals (1975–1978, 1996–present)
• Paul Cook – drums (1975–1978, 1996–present)
• Glen Matlock – bass guitar, backing vocals (1975–1977, 1996–present)

Former member

• Sid Vicious – bass guitar, backing vocals (1977–1978)

Post-Rotten "Sex Pistols" singers

Lead vocalists, other than Johnny Rotten, on The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle tracks credited to the Sex Pistols:

• Ronnie Biggs – lead vocals on "No One Is Innocent", "Belsen Was a Gas"
• Paul Cook – lead vocals on "Silly Thing" (film and album version)
• Steve Jones – lead vocals on "Friggin' In The Riggin'", "EMI (Orchestral)", "Lonely Boy", "Silly Thing" (single version)
• Malcolm McLaren – lead vocals on "God Save The Queen (Symphony)", "You Need Hands"
• Edward Tudor-Pole – lead vocals on "The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle", "Who Killed Bambi?", "Rock Around the Clock"
• Sid Vicious – lead vocals on "My Way", "Something Else", "C'mon Everybody"

Singles

Year	Single	UK Singles Chart
1976	"Anarchy in the U.K."	38
1977	"God Save the Queen"	2
	"Pretty Vacant"	6
	"Holidays in the Sun"	8
1978	"No One Is Innocent"/"My Way"	7
1979	"Something Else"	3
	"Silly Thing"	6
	"C'mon Everybody"	3
	"The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle"	21
1980	"(I'm Not Your) Steppin' Stone"	21
1981	"Who Killed Bambi?" c	—
1992	"Anarchy in the U.K." (reissue)	33
	"Pretty Vacant" (reissue)	56
1996	"Pretty Vacant" (live)	18
2002	"God Save the Queen" (reissue)	15
2007	"Anarchy in the U.K." (2nd reissue)	70
	"God Save the Queen" (2nd reissue)	42
	"Pretty Vacant" (2nd reissue)	65
	"Holidays in the Sun" (reissue)	74