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| kathryn |
Posted - 02/26/2006 : 07:15:01
from the Independent
B****cks to fame, we're the Sex Pistols
Age hasn't mellowed the punk pioneers,
and their chairs at one US awards bash will be staying pretty vacant
By Anthony Barnes
Published: 26 February 2006
As punk pioneers, the Sex Pistols spent a brief, chaotic time kicking and snarling against the system. Nearly three decades on, they have shown they are still spitting - over attempts to make them part of the establishment - by declining one of the music industry's greatest accolades.
The band have decided to snub their induction into the US Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, an annual extravaganza in which the music business honours its most influential figures.
In a handwritten message, complete with spelling mistakes, posted on singer John Lydon's website, the band said they will not be attending a glitzy ceremony in Cleveland, Ohio, next month.
"Next to the SEX-PISTOLS rock and roll and that hall of fame is a piss stain," the note said. "Your museum. Urine in wine. Were not coming. Were not your monkey and so what?" It went on to criticise the cost of tables at the event - up to £15,000 each - and ended: "Were not coming. Your not paying attention. Outside the shit-stem is a real SEX PISTOL."
The Sex Pistols' former bass player, Glen Matlock, told The Independent on Sunday yesterday it had been a unanimous decision by the band to steer clear. "It's nothing to do with the bands - it's all to do with business. When I first heard about it I was quite excited... but then I found I was going to have to pay thousands of pounds to take my kids. It's just a big corporate event, a bunch of Herberts in suits... just a money-making opportunity for multi-million shysters."
Jon Savage, the author of the definitive punk history, England's Dreaming, was unsurprised that the band had turned down the honour. "They are no friends of the music industry and they have always had an uneasy relationship with it. I think it's interesting that finally their influence is being recognised by the mainstream American music industry. America didn't do them any favours. They had a terrible time on tour there. At the end of the day the Sex Pistols were punk rockers, so what do people expect?"
Several other leading figures from the punk days have already become part of the Hall of Fame.
The Clash were inducted three years ago, shortly after the death of co-frontman Joe Strummer, and the Ramones accepted their place in 2002.
The forthright Lydon has previously referred to it as the "Rock and Roll Hall of Shame", and, "a place where old rockers go to die".
Next month marks the 30th anniversary of the band's first headline appearance, at the 100 Club in Oxford Street, London, after a handful of support shows. Within months of the gig they had caused nationwide uproar when the television presenter Bill Grundy goaded them into swearing during a live interview.
A backlash against the band's language, volatile behaviour, anarchic sentiments and chaotic performances soon followed, which meant they struggled to hold on to record deals, going through three in 1977. Following a shambolic US tour, which saw them banned from several venues, Lydon (then Johnny Rotten) quit during a show in San Francisco, telling the audience: "ever get the feeling you've been cheated?" The band had completed just one album, Never Mind the Bollocks, but had a lasting effect on the music industry and on high-flying current US bands such as Green Day.
Susan Evans, the executive director of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Foundation, said of the band's decision to shun the accolade: "They're being the outrageous punksters that they are, and that's rock'n'roll."
Also, Steve Jones on Indie 103.1 opened his show Friday (Feb. 24) singing: "We're not going/To the museum/You can shove it/You can have it."
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| manintheshack |
Posted - 03/03/2006 : 04:32:03
quote:
Originally posted by kathryn
from the Independent
"Were not your monkey and so what?" It went on to criticise the cost of tables at the event - up to £15,000 each - and ended: "Were not coming. Your not paying attention. Outside the shit-stem is a real SEX PISTOL."
Is this before or after he went on 'I'm a celebrity.. get me out of here'. What a twat.
On a side note, Sid Vicious went to my old secondary school for a very brief period. One of my many tenuous claims to fame aside being related to HG Wells and the biggest of all... that Fireman Sam's fire station was modelled on my hometown's!
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| Levitated |
Posted - 03/02/2006 : 19:37:49
[singing]some things will never change[singing]  I would like to know Lydon's opinion about the Pixies |
| danjersey |
Posted - 02/28/2006 : 20:55:22
quote:
Originally posted by Daisy Girl
nice to see some things never change
yup. |
| Daisy Girl |
Posted - 02/28/2006 : 19:28:26
nice to see some things never change |
| speedy_m |
Posted - 02/28/2006 : 10:08:54
What is he gonna do for an encore, rip Green Day in the press?
and you are ill prepared to fight
living in a world of soft and white
in air conditioned battle zones
I pity you!
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| Carolynanna |
Posted - 02/28/2006 : 09:32:11
Schiestiest, thats a good one.
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| BLT |
Posted - 02/28/2006 : 08:12:26
I like when he whistles. I always guess those right. |
| Fartbone |
Posted - 02/28/2006 : 07:10:02
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Originally posted by HeywoodJablome
They were just a boy band anyway. A creation by one of the scheistiest managers there ever was.
Steve's radio show has it's moments though.
His show is prolly the best around lately.
Horale Cabrones |
| HeywoodJablome |
Posted - 02/27/2006 : 14:04:35
They were just a boy band anyway. A creation by one of the scheistiest managers there ever was.
Steve's radio show has it's moments though.
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| BLT |
Posted - 02/27/2006 : 13:09:16
Maybe now they'll phone in a couple more tours.
Cyberhugs are for pussies. |
| Fartbone |
Posted - 02/27/2006 : 11:51:07
ooh, they are so punk
Horale Cabrones |
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