1976 The Pistols fill a late replacement guest slot on Thames TV's Today Programme. Life would never be the same again. The band arrive five minutes before going on air and are interviewed live by a smug and drunk Bill Grundy who sets about provoking them to "say something outrageous". The expletives that follow stun the early evening audience and the next day the front pages of every daily newspaper carry a picture of the band. Reports circulate of honest working men who've kicked in their TV sets and old ladies who've keeled over from strokes.

A quarter century later, people still have massive poles up there arses.