Sex Pistols DVD Comes Out

The frontman from the Sex Pistols, John Lydon, or Johnny Rotten, has described the punk music movement he helped pioneer as championing "family values," according to Reuters.

"Family values, unity, spirit, community. All these things they try and steal away from us. That's punk," Lydon told Reuters in an interview this week. "There's hardly any equipment on stage because a serious band don't require vast amounts of electronic gadgetry - there's no fake, there's no nonsense." He said all of this at the London launch of a DVD of the Sex Pistols' tour in 2007, according to Reuters.

The Sex Pistols are best known for hits like "Anarchy in the U.K.," "Pretty Vacant" and "God Save the Queen," from their 1977 album, Never Mind the Bollocks . . . Here's the Sex Pistols. This was their only album, but it is seen as one of the most famous and influential albums in music history, reported Reuters.

Friends, family and British rock musicians were in the audience at a screening of the DVD in a former concert hall in north London, not far from where the Sex Pistols played one of their first gigs. "It's one of the very first places that we could actually play in as a Sex Pistol. Most of the pubs and clubs - we were underage, you see, so they didn't let us in and they didn't trust us," he told Reuters.

The group is looked to today with a mixture of affection and nostalgia, but when they first came into fame 30 years ago they were controversial and hated by many. Asked what he thought of this and being an iconic symbol of rebellion, he told Reuters: "I don't understand all that icon stuff, but you're offering and I'll have it. I don't need to be number one."