A community portal about Sex Pistols with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: The Sex Pistols were an iconic and highly influential English punk band, formed in London in 1975. The band originally comprised vocalist...
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A community portal about Sex Pistols with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: The Sex Pistols were an iconic and highly influential English punk band, formed in London in 1975. The band originally comprised vocalist Johnny Rotten, guitarist Steve Jones, drummer Paul Cook and bassist Glen Matlock. Although their initial career lasted only three years and produced only four singles and one studio album, the Sex Pistols have been described by the BBC as "the definitive English punk rock band." The Pistols are widely credited with initiating the punk movement in the United Kingdom and creating the first generation gap within rock and roll.
This week marks the 30th anniversary of the death of Sid Vicious, who was the bass guitarist for the Sex Pistols. [God, I feel really, really old]. He died of a heroin overdose on February 1, 1979—the same night he was released on bail from Riker’s Island. He’d spent 55 days there after being charged with the murder of his girlfriend, Nancy Spungen, who died of a single stab wound to the abdomen and bled to death on the floor of their room at the Chelsea Hotel .
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The Sex Pistols are reuniting for a concert to mark the 30th anniversary of their only album, "Never Mind the Bollocks." All four original members - John Lydon, Steve Jones, Paul Cook and Glen Matlock - will play a one-time concert at London's Brixton Academy on Nov. 8, the band announced Tuesday on the music Web site . http://www.nme.com The punk pioneers, who once sang there was "No Future," split in 1978 but reformed in 1996 and played together again in 2003. Last year they were inducted... Read Full Story
Last year 52-year-old punk rocker and lead singer of British band Sex Pistols suprised his fans and appeared in Country Life Butter Commercial. John Lydon never appeared before in any TV commercial or print ad. Read Full Story
SEX PISTOLS The Sex Pistols are an English punk rock band that formed in London in 1975. They are responsible for initiating the punk movement in the United Kingdom and inspiring many later punk and alternative rock musicians. Although their initial career lasted just two-and-a-half years and produced only four singles and one studio album, Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols, they are regarded as one of the most influential acts in the history of popular music. The Sex Pistols... Read Full Story
May 10, 1957 – February 2, 1979
Sid Vicious , (born Simon John Ritchie), bassist for the Sex Pistols and infamous pop culture icon, would have been 52 today. May 10 ( Mother’s Day here in the US) is also the Birthday of Sixties Pop Guru , Donovan (born in 1946) and some guy named Paul Hewson (born in 1960), who sings and pontificates for the band U2 . Read Full Story
The Sex Pistols have got a new DVD " There'll Always Be an England " coming out this week, somewhere (UK? US? Everywhere? Who knows?). The DVD mostly highlights last year's tour shows of the 30th anniversary of the release of the band's debut LP "Never Mind the Bollocks" in 1977. The band kicks off a massive (for them) summer tour of shows at Las Vegas Hard Rock Hotel this weekend. Buy tickets here . Here's a trailer of bits from shows taken at Brixton Academy in 2007, and interviews with... Read Full Story
Punk icons the Sex Pistols are to release their first-ever concert movie. Cameras caught the original Pistols line-up, Johnny Rotten, Steve Jones, Paul Cook and Glen Matlock , onstage and backstage at London's Brixton Academy last year.
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Thirty-three years on after the early glory days of the Sex Pistols , original Pistols bassist Glen Matlock is still rockin' it out. I like that. Glen Matlock is rockin' out tonight (Monday) in London on his own. Solo, it says. Is that Glen and an acoustic guitar? Or Glen and a combo? We'll have to read the blogs to find out later this week. Glen's Wikipedia entry notes... "Matlock rejoined the original Sex Pistols members for reunion tours in 1996, 2002 and 2003, and again in 2007 and 2008... Read Full Story
The Sex Pistols are immortalized in a wild comic-like ebook from author Alex Poray. I skimmed through the pages today and it's a wild ride through the short life of Britain's most infamous punk band (apart from Crass???). Check it out over at its official site . Read Full Story
