A new Sex Pistols biopic is coming up, but Lydon feels cheated as he wasn’t invited to star
in it. Weird as he voted for the biggest American cheater ever, his beloved ex-president Donald Trump.
“For the first time in over a decade, 20 of the Sex Pistol’s recordings from 1976 to 1978 are collected together to tell the story of one of the world’s most influential and extraordinary bands. The tracks here cover the entire initial period of the band’s recording career – from Anarchy in The UK, through Never Mind The Bollocks to the post John Lydon Great Rock ‘n’
Roll Swindle soundtrack featuring early demos, cover versions and more. The compilation is completed by some essential B- sides – I Wanna Be Me (the flipside of Anarchy…), ‘Satellite’
(the b-side of ‘Holidays In The Sun’) and Did You No Wrong (from ‘God Save The Queen’).”
The compil is coming out as a companion to Pistol, Danny Boyle’s new
Disney+ series (Disney??) on the Sex Pistols, out 31 May, without the
consent of John ‘Rotten’ Lydon.
Trailer
Three thoughts…
One: Their limited production of songs is already compiled
a million times, the greedy not-punk Pistols money machine
is not satisfied yet.
Two: ‘Never Mind The Bollocks’ still is the best punk longplayer ever
in my book, although I can’t listen to it anymore (see point three).
Three: Johnny Rotten (Jonny Forgotten is more appropriate now) has become
the opposite of what he all pretended to be and stand for in the early Pistols days.
His sharp-cutting lyrics back then now sound hollow, crooked, and, uh, rotten.
The moment he realised he could make a living out of his faked personality, he
became a pathetic parody of himself, And even worse, over the years he became a
bitter, moaning right-wing punk old-timer who’s an American citizen for years now
and voted for Donald fucking Trump.
Bye, bye, bye, bye
Bye, bye, bye, bye
Bye-bye Johnny
Good bye Johnny B. Goode
The SEX PISTOLS released their controversial debut single ‘ANARCHY IN THE U.K.‘,
one of the fiercest punk anthems ever, on 26 November 1976, 45 years ago today.
It was originally issued in a plain black sleeve and peaked at #38 on the UK Singles
Chart although it was either ignored or negatively received by the music press.
Their label EMI dropped the band a few months later, in January 1977.
Their manager at the time, the lateMalcolm McLaren said the song was
“a call to arms to the kids who believe that rock and roll was taken away from
them. It’s a statement of self rule, of ultimate independence.”
Here’s the American has been-antichrist and Trump voter Johnny Forgotten…
For most people the last day of August is also the last day of summer, the last day of holidays. That’s the bad news. The good news is that Turn Up The Volume starts his holidays in the sun today at the hot French Riviera. Yeeeahhh! Much sun, much drinks, much delicious food. Prepare yourselves for the last summer live track of 2020.
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