Sex Pistols
★★★
Live In The USA 1978
UNIVERSAL. CD/DL/LP
L ONG BEFORE HE shot dead Lee Oswald, President Kennedy’s supposed assassin, nightclub owner Jack Ruby ran a cowboy joint in Dallas called the Longhorn Ballroom. His taste in music was impeccable: as well as Western Swing and country acts, he also booked Nat King Cole, Count Basie and Ruth Brown (this in ’50s Texas). Probably best for all parties, then, that Ruby had long expired before the Sex Pistols performed at the club on January 10, 1978, their junky bassist sporting the legend “Gimme A Fix” in magic-marker on his bare chest and goading audience members to fight him.