I eventually realized that the music will overcome, regardless of the alleged rules and regulations that were always being thrown at us. Ultimately, the Sex Pistols created the defining clarion call for punk mayhem. And around the time Never Mind the Bollocks came out on October 28th, , the band caused chaos as much as it inspired anarchy. Its singles were blacked out on the British charts, a record store manager was arrested and charged with obscenity for displaying the album cover, and the band — banned all over England — had to tour undercover as S. In short, the LP was a success. It made it to Number One in the U.