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He practiced like crazy and quickly began to learn the instrument.
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Despite the myth, Sid actually COULD play. Sid already got on with Steve and Paul, and probably fitted the bands image better than Matlock. With Glen Matlock’s departure in February 1977 Sid was drafted in on bass duties via John Lydon. When Lydon joined the Sex Pistols in August 1975 Sid became one of their biggest fans and is famously credited with inventing the “pogo” dance as a way of purposely bumping into members of the band’s entourage and/or crowd he didn’t like. He first met John Lydon at Hackney Technical College and became what would later be known as one of the “gang of John’s” along with John Lydon, John Gray & John Wardle (aka Jah Wobble). “You’re so vicious…”īorn in London to unmarried parents, Sid moved briefly to Ibiza as a child before returning with his mother to London. The ironic “Vicious” came after the hamster tried to bite him: “Oh, your Sid is Vicious” and the Lou Reed song ‘Vicious’. John/Simon became “Sid” through John Lydon’s pet hamster – who in turn was named after Pink Floyd’s Syd Barrett – Sid hated the name so John Lydon would taunt him with it. Born as John Simon Ritchie his mother Anne would insist on calling him Simon she also used the surname Beverley from a later marriage. A picture disc version was released in 2012 by Universal.There has been much confusion over Sid’s name. The 7″ single was re-issued in its original form as part of the limited edition Virgin 2007 vinyl re-issue series.
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The single was released on 7″ only, and issued in a blue and silver sleeve (the official colours of the Silver Jubilee). The band had more sense than to be collared.ī-side ‘ Did You No Wrong‘ does not feature on the ‘Never Mind The Bollocks’ album, but is currently available on the ‘NMTB’ 40th Anniversary Box Set (released 2017). After playing a handful of songs – including ‘Anarchy in the UK’ and ‘GSTQ’ – Police boarded the boat and arrested several people including the band’s then manager Malcolm McLaren.
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On June 7th – the week of the national celebration of the Queen’s Jubilee – the Sex Pistols arranged their own tribute with a boat trip along the River Thames in full view of the Houses of Parliament. This wasn’t a conspiracy theory, this was for real. The powers-that-be refused to acknowledge it but the Sex Pistols were Number 1. It technically out-sold the Number 1 record of the week (The First Cut is the Deepest by Rod Stewart) but peaked at Number 2.
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Members of the band were attacked in the streets and Government Members of Parliament even called for the Pistols to be hung at London’s Traitors’ Gate!Įven though it was banned from radio and TV – and the Pistols were branded public enemy #1 – ‘GSTQ’ stormed to the top of the charts. No one had ever dared question the Monarchy so publicly and it wasn’t without its repercussions. There are not many songs – written over baked beans at the breakfast table – that went onto divide a nation and force a change in popular culture. Some advance copies of the A&M single were pressed and are now worth a small fortune. Originally titled ‘No Future’ the track was written in 1976 and would actually have been released in March 1977 had A&M Records not sacked the Pistols after only 10 days. Sid Vicious had replaced Glen Matlock on bass prior to recording but does not play on the final track.ĭespite popular belief, release of ‘GSTQ’ was not pre-planned to coincide with the Queen’s Silver Jubilee celebrations in June. The Sex Pistols second 7″ single, and their first for Virgin Records, released on May 27th 1977. John Rotten’s alternative National Anthem.