"London 1975: the historical year the Sex Pistols began their shocking fight to be heard through the fog of stagnation and paralysing gloom that had fallen over the land. By winter 1976 they were heard loud and clear. The band, and the fans who immediately identified with them, had caused a dramatic break with the past. There was horror in the music industry as older musicians and established record companies sensed they had lost control. The mainstream media, reacting in moral panic, called for the banning of anything associated with punk. Looking back at the photographs I took then reminds us that all the musicians and fans creating such disruptive perturbation were barely out of their teens: Johnny Rotten was twenty, Joe Strummer twenty-three, the average age of The Jam nineteen, Ari-Up of The Slits fourteen."