"They achieved notoriety in 19 languages"

Tonight I watched the JULIEN TEMPLE documentary "THE FILTH AND THE FURY."
Temple traces the story of the SEX PISTOLS from their beginnings hanging out at a shop selling rubber outfits to Johnny Rotten singing "No Fun" at the final gig in San Francisco and the tragic demise of Sid Vicious.
Three decades later, it is genuinely difficult to understand the utter outrage that flared against the band in Britain, with television commentators openly wondering if the band represented the downfall of society.
What was worse, Rotten singing "Anarchy in the U.K.," or a supposedly worker-friendly Labour Government standing by while garbage strikes meant mountainous bags of trash piled upon one another on London streets?
I was an adolescent whose musical outlook was completely changed by the original advent of punk. Watching "The Filth and the Fury" made me wonder how limited my musical tastes might have been, had the Sex Pistols never happened.