Original sentence: Whilst the whole episode brought the face of punk to the wider attention of the general public, accompanied by massive publicity for the band (as McLaren later claimed was his intent, despite all other accounts leaning to the contrary)
Edited sentence: Whilst the whole shambolic episode brought the face of punk to the wider attention of the general public, accompanied by massive publicity for the band (as McLaren later claimed was his intent, despite all other accounts leaning to the contrary), the consensus is that the original spirit of the punk movement was now lost