\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div> \t\t\t\t\tThe Sex Pistols in 1976, one year before the release of their only studio album \u2018Never Mind the Bollocks\u2026\u2019 (From left to right: Steve Jones, John Lydon, Glen Matlock and Paul Cook)<\/span><\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\u201cEvening Standard\u201d\/Getty Images<\/cite><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n \n\tHis nerves vanished the second that drummer Paul Cook pounded out the intro to \u201cHolidays in the Sun,\u201d and bassist Glen Matlock and guitarist Steve Jones fell in line, with the capacity, overwhelmingly young crowd frantically pogoing like their parents \u2014 and even grandparents \u2014 did at the 100 Club back in 1976. The chaotic state carried through the entire show, which included a complete performance of the band\u2019s sole studio album, 1977\u2019s Never Mind the Bollocks, Here\u2019s the Sex Pistols<\/em>, and \u201cNo Fun\u201d by the Stooges, a mainstay of their early gigs.<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cIt was just like going back in time,\u201d Jones says. \u201cIt was nuts. We were looking at each other, me, Glen, and Paul, like, \u2018This is happening!\u2019 This was right off the bat. It wasn\u2019t even a question.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tOnce footage of the performance hit the Internet and rave reviews appeared in the U.K. press, offers for festival and headlining gigs soon poured in, leaving the band stunned. Since then, they\u2019ve spent the past few months gigging across Europe and Australia, and, in September, will launch a North American leg that will take them through the U.S. for the first time since 2003. (The played a one-off L.A. date in 2007, and another in Las Vegas in 2008.)<\/p>\n