Sex Pistols: Famous, infamous or both? Regardless of where you stand, there’s no denying their influence.

While they only released one studio album, 1977’s Never Mind the Bollocks, Here’s the Sex Pistols, their spirit forever changed the rock and roll landscape. Check out the gallery below to see some iconic images of the Sex Pistols both on and off stage.

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  8th December 1976: The Sex Pistols: Johnny Rotten (John Lydon), Paul Cook (drums) and Steve Jones (guitar) performing on stage at Leeds Polytechnic, UK. (Photo by Graham Wood/Evening Standard/Getty Images)

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  10th March 1977: The Sex Pistols with their manager Malcolm McLaren signing a new contract with A&M Records, after being dropped from EMI, outside Buckingham Palace, London. The contract was terminated in one week. (Photo by Graham Wood/Evening Standard/Getty Images)

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  English punk rock band The Sex Pistols performing live during their 'Never Mind The Bans Tour', UK, 19th December 1977. (Photo by Evening Standard/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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  English bassist and singer Sid Vicious (1957 - 1979) with girlfriend Nancy Spungen (1958 - 1978) in the backstage of the Electric Ballroom in Camden, London, UK, 15th August 1978. (Photo by Aubrey Hart/Evening Standard/Getty Images)

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  English drummer Paul Cook of punk rock band The Sex Pistols performing live during their 'Never Mind The Bans Tour', UK, 19th December 1977. (Photo by Evening Standard/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
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  Johnny Rotten (John Lydon) singing with British punk band The Sex Pistols. (Photo by Evening Standard/Getty Images)

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  English punk rock band The Sex Pistols performing live during their 'Never Mind The Bans Tour', UK, 19th December 1977. (Photo by Evening Standard/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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  Former Sex Pistols bassist Sid Vicious (John Simon Ritchie, 1957 - 1979) with his mother, Anne Beverley, after a court appearance over the murder of his girlfriend Nancy Spungen, 18th October 1978. (Photo by Daily Express/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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  Former Sex Pistols bassist Sid Vicious (1957 - 1979) with his girlfriend Nancy Spungen (1958 - 1978) arriving at Marylebone Magistrates Court, London, 9th February 1978. (Photo by Evening Standard/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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  19th December 1977: Johnny Rotten, lead singer of the British punk band 'The Sex Pistols', at a concert in Brunel University, London. (Photo by Evening Standard/Getty Images)
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  9th February 1979: Punk star Johnny Rotten (John Lydon), former lead singer of the group the Sex Pistols, on his way to the High Court, where he is seeking an injunction to ban Malcolm McLaren's Glitterbest company from holding itself out as manager of the groups members or using the name Sex Pistols. (Photo by Central Press/Getty Images)

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  8th December 1976: Johnny Rotten of the Sex Pistols performing. (Photo by Graham Wood/Evening Standard/Getty Images)

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  The manager of the punk rock band, the 'Sex Pistols', Malcolm McLaren, outside the Bow Street Magistrates Court, where he is facing a Breach of the Peace case. (Photo by Central Press/Getty Images)

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  English bassist and singer Sid Vicious (1957 - 1979) performs with the Vicious White Kids at Electric Ballroom, London, UK, 15th August 1978. From left to right: Glen Matlock, Rat Scabies, Sid Vicious, Steve New. (Photo by Aubrey Hart/Evening Standard/Getty Images)

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  British singer John Lydon, also knows as Johnny Rotten, of punk rock band Sex Pistols, arrives in the UK with his parents, mother Eileen (left) and father John (right), 24th January 1978. (Photo by Dennis Stone/Evening Standard/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
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  English bassist and singer Sid Vicious (1957 - 1979) performs with the Vicious White Kids at Electric Ballroom, London, UK, 15th August 1978. (Photo by Aubrey Hart/Evening Standard/Getty Images)

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  Former Sex Pistols bassist Sid Vicious (John Simon Ritchie, 1957 - 1979) with his girlfriend Nancy Spungen (1958 - 1978) outside Marylebone Magistrates Court, London, 1978. (Photo by Daily Express/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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  27th July 1977: Infamous British punk rock group The Sex Pistols playing live in Copenhagen. From left to right; Sid Vicious, Paul Cook, Johnny Rotten and Steve Jones. (Photo by Keystone Features/Getty Images)

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  10th March 1977: The Sex Pistols with their manager Malcolm McLaren (third from right) signing a new contract with A&M Records outside Buckingham Palace, London after being dropped from EMI. The contract was terminated a week later. From left: Johnny Rotten (aka Lydon), Steve Jones, Paul Cook and Sid Vicious (1957 - 1979). (Photo by Graham Wood/Evening Standard/Getty Images)

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