The Sex Pistols didn't create the sound and philosophies of the punk genre, but were a product of a previous underground movement, consisting of a small number of bands, playing small pub venues to an equally small audience.
These bands, like their audience, were tired of what the mainstream music scene had to offer.
They couldn't play their instruments and were crap and knew it. What really mattered, was the philosophy that anyone with an attitude and something to say, could pick up a guitar and do their thing, without having to have a degree in music and a University background.
Enter McClaren and with it the Sex Pistols and with that, the media.
And with that, the end of an ideal.
It could even be argued 'logically' that the Sex Pistols, by default, were the opposite of the definitive punk band.
All McClaren and the Pistols really did, was borrow from an already existing musical subculture and bring it to a wider audience, packaged for the mainstream.
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