Sex Pistols - Seventeen (Wessex Studios, NMTB Outtake May-August 1977)

Of course, giving the Bayreuth celebration the status of an event of a national scale, on the one hand, could not but give rise to a sense of deep satisfaction in Wagner. But, on the other hand, did the composer dream of such spectators, saying that an “enlightened public” should listen to him? First of all, he wanted to be understood by the "aristocrats of the spirit," not the "aristocrats of the blood." Now, the flip side of popularity has opened before him. He, always mercilessly fighting against musical fashion, himself became a fashionable composer. And that killed everything for which he fought; behind the "fashionable motley tinsel" the main thing was lost - the depth of his ideas, his warnings, his lessons. They listened to him, but did not hear.