Sex Pistols to Rock Hall: 'We're not coming'

British punk-rock legends The Sex Pistols will be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame next month, but don't expect the group to be on hand for the ceremony.

"Next to the Sex Pistols, rock and roll and that Hall of Fame is a piss stain," reads a sloppy and grammatically challenged, handwritten note that the group posted at its website on Friday (2/24). "Your museum. Urine in wine. We're not coming. We're not your monkey and so what?"

Last November, the Rock Hall announced plans to induct The Sex Pistols--as well as Miles Davis, Black Sabbath, Lynyrd Skynyrd and Blondie--into its ranks during a March 13 ceremony at New York City's Waldorf Astoria Hotel. Nominees for induction are chosen by the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Foundation's nominating committee, which is "composed of rock and roll historians," and ballots are then sent to "an international voting body of about 700 rock experts" who vote on whether to induct each nominee, according to the Rock Hall's website.

"If you voted for us, hope you noted your reasons," The Sex Pistols' note to the Rock Hall continues. "You're anonymous as judges, but you're still industry people. We're not coming. You're not paying attention. Outside the s----stem is a real Sex Pistol."

The Sex Pistols--frontman Johnny Rotten, guitarist Steve Jones, drummer Paul Cook and late bassist Sid Vicious (who replaced original bassist Glen Matlock)--released only one album, 1977's "Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols," but it is among rock's most critically acclaimed releases.