On Jan. 5, 1978, the Sex Pistols played their first American concert at the Great Southeast Music Hall in Atlanta. Having the controversial British punk outfit open its tour in the South was calculated to drum up controversy, and it did. Less than two weeks later, the best-known incarnation of the band would implode after playing one last gig at San Francisco's Winterland. 13 months later, in Feb. 1979, Sid Vicious died of a heroin overdose.