It wasn't in disagreement with you, but with this guy here:
"I think that happened the moment the Sex Pistols signed with EMI."
Herr Westheimer still is endeared by Lydon's gang for them shaking the foundations of what he calls "stadium rock", albeit only for a little while. Never mind the bollocks that three decades onwards there are whole magazines devoted to tracking the history of eternally uncool bands like Foghat and Journey while the Pistols remain an aged novelty act.
Rant:
I always thought the Sex Pistols grossly, even obscenely overrated as a cultural and musical phenomenon. I preferred the Bruddahs from NYC, The Damned, The Clash or The Jam (if you want to call them punk) anyday. That whole first Sex Pistols album sounded like glam rock rough takes to me, without embellishing overdubs. And even as a 17 year old, I thought the lyrics politically naive and gratingly nihilistic. Britain wasn't a "fascist regime" ever (as the sorry state of The National Front throughout its existence shows, if anything Britain is proudly fascism-resistant) and Herr Lydon didn't have the faintest grasp on the political concept of anarchy. It has nothing to do with throwing bombs. He could have sung "Britain is an entrenched class society" (fascism, otoh, is about creating the illusion that class boundaries cease to exist within a nation once fascism is in control of things), that would have made a valid point, but would not have rhymed with "Queen" and "dream".
End of Rant
But I give Steve Jones (on the right, all hippienesque and furry) credit for playing on this killer track with Herr Osterberg: