Sex Pistols: In Their Own Words | Music Documentary | Johnny Rotten | Sid Vicious

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  • A deep dive into the history, influence, and music of the groundbreaking punk rock band, The Sex Pistols. Although their initial career lasted just two and a half years, they were one of the most important acts in the history of popular music and pop culture. Their fashion and hairstyles were a significant influence on punk image, and they are often associated with anarchism within music.
    Included clips and performances of songs; Submission, No Fun, Pretty Vacant, Anarchy in the U.K., God Save the Queen, Problems, No Feelings, Bodies, Holidays in the Sun
    The Sex Pistols were an English punk rock band formed in London in 1975. They were responsible for initiating the punk movement in the United Kingdom and inspiring many later punk and alternative rock musicians.
    The Sex Pistols originally comprised vocalist Johnny Rotten (John Lydon), guitarist Steve Jones, drummer Paul Cook, and bassist Glen Matlock; Matlock was replaced by Sid Vicious in early 1977. Under the management of Malcolm McLaren, the band attracted some controversies that both captivated and appalled Britain. Through an obscenity-laced television interview in December 1976 and their May 1977 single "God Save the Queen", the latter of which attacked Britons' social conformity and deference to the Crown, calling the monarchy a "fascist regime". The release of the song popularised punk rock in the UK.
    The Sex Pistols' only album, Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols (1977) - a UK number one - is a staple record of punk rock. In January 1978, at the end of their turbulent tour of the US, Rotten announced the band's break-up. Over the next few months, the three remaining members recorded songs for McLaren's film of the Sex Pistols' story, The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle.
    The Sex Pistols have been recognized as an influential band. In 2004, Rolling Stone placed them No. 58 on its list of the "100 Greatest Artists of All Time". On 24 February 2006, the Sex Pistols-, also directly inspired the style, and often the formation itself, of many punk and post-punk bands during their first two-and-a-half-year run. The Clash, Siouxsie and the Banshees, the Adverts, Vic Godard of Subway Sect, and Ari Up of the Slits are among those in London's "inner circle" of early punk bands that credit the Pistols.
    Among the many musicians of a later time who have acknowledged their debt to the Pistols are members of the Jesus and Mary Chain, NOFX, The Stone Roses, Guns N' Roses, Nirvana, Green Day, and Oasis. Tim Mohr links Western radio airplay of the Sex Pistols as helping create the whole East German punk movement. Calling the band "immensely influential", a London College of Music study guide notes that "many styles of popular music, such as grunge, indie, thrash metal and even rap owe their foundations to the legacy of groundbreaking punk bands-of which the Sex Pistols was the most prominent."
    Director: Alastair Laurence
    Stars: Glen Matlock, Don Letts, Alex Ogg, John Robb
    Track list:
    Submission
    No Fun
    Pretty Vacant
    Anarchy in the U.K.
    God Save the Queen
    Problems
    No Feelings
    Bodies
    Holidays in the Sun
    Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols track list:
    1. "Holidays in the Sun"
    2. "Bodies"
    3. "No Feelings"
    4. "Liar"
    5. "God Save the Queen"
    6. "Problems"
    7. "Seventeen"
    8. "Anarchy in the U.K."
    9. "Submission"
    10. "Pretty Vacant"
    11. "New York"
    12. "E.M.I."
    13. "No Feelings" (B-Side of A&M God Save the Queen)
    14. "Did You No Wrong" (B-Side of Virgin God Save the Queen)
    15. "No Fun" (B-Side of Pretty Vacant)
    16. "Satellite" (B-Side of Holidays in the Sun)
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  • @user-up8jx3mt6j
    @user-up8jx3mt6j ปีที่แล้ว +64

    Say what you like, but the Sex Pistols were totally one of a kind. No band
    has ever been like them.

    • @princegroove
      @princegroove 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Often imitated but never duplicated indeed.

    • @sexobscura
      @sexobscura 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      and may I ask, as opposed to which other band ...

    • @danielbrown3461
      @danielbrown3461 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Wrong....Flipper and the Stooges were just like the Pistols....So was Devo...they were threatened regularly.

  • @carldyson9342
    @carldyson9342 ปีที่แล้ว +88

    The best punk band ever just love them iam 60 years old and still listening to Never Mind The Bollocks just a fantastic album

    • @ianmills5237
      @ianmills5237 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      They’re even better if you’re English 😁

    • @mathish100
      @mathish100 ปีที่แล้ว

      So true, mr. So true! You got great taste, just like me,..heh-heh... and everybody else who love that album.

    • @mathish100
      @mathish100 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@ianmills5237 Maybe, but don`t under- estimate us who don`t live in England, and our love for this music, the album, and the band itself.😜🍄

    • @likkidixx
      @likkidixx ปีที่แล้ว +2

      It has stood the test of time.

    • @Iiwii11
      @Iiwii11 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Same here exactly.

  • @musicloverchicago437
    @musicloverchicago437 ปีที่แล้ว +29

    I was happy to hear Alex Ogg's comments about Sid Vicious at 38:38. "Sid Vicious is, basically he's become this kind of accidental icon, and I'm not sure he's the right icon really for the punk years because I think there's something intensely liberating and intelligent about what happened, and to have it sort of dumbed down to this Sidney figure who was just a walking car crash of a personality I actually think does a huge disservice to the people who actually achieved a lot at that time." Ogg is actually too kind.

    • @likkidixx
      @likkidixx ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I understand your point of view but people need a face to relate to.

    • @michaelsuder486
      @michaelsuder486 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Sid was a talentless moron. They should have never gotten rid of Matlock

    • @waynesilverman3048
      @waynesilverman3048 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      His hair as well spot on

    • @Alasdair-uo8zg
      @Alasdair-uo8zg 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Sid was the Bez of his day.😋

    • @nurknanker6105
      @nurknanker6105 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Kinda agree, but I was there & soft for him, Sid was kind to this fan.

  • @onlyme219
    @onlyme219 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

    To only make one real album and to it get deservedly the status of a masterpiece of its time is very, very impressive. I'm 57 and still listen to the album going to work. I also do the same with Adam and the Ants and Kings of the Wild Frontier :) Side note: Glen doesn't get enough credit, seems after Sid he was forgot, that's not right

  • @Hillbilly001
    @Hillbilly001 ปีที่แล้ว +28

    Ahhh, the memories. I was 17 in 1977. Cheers from Tennessee

    • @g3pdhbelonis447
      @g3pdhbelonis447 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I was also 17 and in TN in 1977

    • @Hillbilly001
      @Hillbilly001 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@g3pdhbelonis447 I was a hardcore rebel back then. If "they" said it was bad, I had to find out if it was or not. Don't know how I survived, but it sure was a lot of fun. LoL. Cheers

    • @curtissea5340
      @curtissea5340 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      exactally ...👏👏👏👏👏

    • @jeromedavis1353
      @jeromedavis1353 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Same here. Knew I needed to go see them in Atlanta. Knew I wouldn’t. Knew I’d regret it the rest of my life!

  • @kevanbrown7620
    @kevanbrown7620 ปีที่แล้ว +24

    Never Mind The Bollocks Here's The Sex Pistols is a classic album. Every track is bang on. Best Punk album.

    • @organicmechanic5150
      @organicmechanic5150 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      I got into trouble at primary school for playing Bodies on the pa system. Teachers had no sense of humour in the 80's.

    • @kevanbrown7620
      @kevanbrown7620 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@organicmechanic5150 "Fuck this and fuck that" ha

    • @organicmechanic5150
      @organicmechanic5150 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@kevanbrown7620 "Fucking all the bollocks, fucking brat" 😂

  • @angryeel2864
    @angryeel2864 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    I agree with Rotten being an anti star and antagonizing the crowd. He was definitely original and one of a kind, but for the record, Jim Morrison was the first frontman to not engage with the crowd and cater to them. He also antagonized them at times. Furthermore, Morrison inspired Iggy to do likewise with The Stooges, who took it to another level. Both The Doors and The Stooges were influences of Rotten and the band. Not taking anything away from them at all. I've been a big fan of the Sex Pistols and Lydon for decades. Saying they were great and or influential is an understatement.

    • @alanstrom2221
      @alanstrom2221 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Oh for sure mate, you are right.
      Morrison was very anti-establishment.
      Jim antagonised his audience by calling them idiots.
      He was drunk, so he didn't articulate what he really meant.
      Society and the mainstream media feeds the general public with misinformation and treats them as fools and idiots.
      Jim meant that people in the audience and the general population allowed society to treat them as fools and idiots.
      The irony of the Hippy Counter Culture was that the majority of them became part of the corporate mainstream once they got their Uni degrees that Mummy and Daddy paid for.
      Pseudo Hippies, Pseudo Punks, Pseudo Echo, that last one is an Aussie 'in joke'.
      Pseudo Hippies & Pseudo Punks come from very safe, comfortable & secure family backgrounds. They can 'afford' to take risks & venture into volatile situations, because they have the assurance of Mummy & Daddy's support to fall back on.
      Jim's father was an officer in the military. Jim was rebellious. This combination does not lead to a good relationship. They rarely saw each other after Jim moved out.
      Jim lived without a 'safety net'
      People like Jim Morrison use drugs and alcohol to 'fall back on'.
      Jim Morrison and Kurt Cobain and Nick Drake and Ian Curtis, Janis Joplin,
      Jimi Hendrix, Brian Jones, Buddy Holly, John Lennon, Robert Johnson, Bob Marley,
      Otis Redding, Hank Williams, Marc Bolan, Gram Parsons, Tim Buckley & Jeff Buckley are some of the greatest losses to this world.
      Not all from drug or alcohol, though I just felt like like listing some great losses.

  • @princegroove
    @princegroove 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    A paradigm shift occurred in popular music with these incredible boys.

    • @danielbrown3461
      @danielbrown3461 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Same thing with the Ramones.

  • @themichael3105
    @themichael3105 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    This is brilliant! Thx! Cheers

  • @simonkormendy849
    @simonkormendy849 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    For me, The Sex Pistols are the original Punk Rockers, they got it right from day one.

  • @edwardbliss8931
    @edwardbliss8931 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Watching these 70s punk documentaries repeat the same thing over and over makes me wish something like this happened again. Something, anything to stir things up

    • @plejady
      @plejady ปีที่แล้ว

      it will when you are 70 years old

    • @ryananasmokleb9494
      @ryananasmokleb9494 ปีที่แล้ว

      ok sweety, they locked us up for b.s and they want you to get a vxx passport.. if that dont rustle your punk-gland .......

    • @layditms2
      @layditms2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Uh Punk never went away

  • @sputnikwar
    @sputnikwar ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Excellent, thanks for that. Although I've seen SO much Pistols stuff over the years, there were still bits there that were new to me. It was a cool little film, thanks for posting.

    • @likkidixx
      @likkidixx ปีที่แล้ว

      TH-cam made our lives easier, didn't it.

  • @FLAVCO
    @FLAVCO ปีที่แล้ว +9

    John Lydon had those amazing piercing eyes that look right through you! You can’t fake that!! 😳

    • @LoyalAsst
      @LoyalAsst 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      5:39 😂
      Who's that? He's hot.

  • @salvelegio1425
    @salvelegio1425 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    For me personally it’s like before, during and after The Sex Pistols. One of the best band ever. Thank you lads!!!

  • @mathish100
    @mathish100 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    I`ve always loved Sex Pistols. And still do .

  • @Jedi_Pimp
    @Jedi_Pimp ปีที่แล้ว +6

    "Monkey's tea party" Jonny Rotten describing manger and the label's ripping the band off. They never had a lawyer to represent them. ( Up The Punks )

  • @legeantdunord4091
    @legeantdunord4091 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    John Lydon is not a punk, he’s a poet…a poet maudit but a poet!

  • @tutts999
    @tutts999 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    Seems so long ago now, but the music still kicks ass.

  • @CitizenSammy
    @CitizenSammy 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    I adore Sid, but canning Glen was the biggest blunder in rock history.

  • @markgreet3543
    @markgreet3543 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Rock n roll years was a tv series bbc 1, it followed the news and music of each year 1976 it showed bill grundy interview clip and sex pistols so it goes clip, it changed my life it simply was amazing I've been a fan since 1985.

  • @markgreet3543
    @markgreet3543 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    Seen them 6 times on reunion tours, met glen, and John and have 250 items in my collection possibly one of greatest bands ever, Steve a great guitar player, John articulate witty and great frontman Paul a good heavy drummer, glen an amazing bass player, sid had some potential listen to him play belsen demo, then say he was bad never mind the bollocks the sex pistols were unique no band like them ever again, but once in a lifetime is still great.

    • @likkidixx
      @likkidixx ปีที่แล้ว

      As a bass player myself, I'm amazed how great the bass lines are! 17 years "old"... Did learn the bass because/thanks to Sid.

    • @markgreet3543
      @markgreet3543 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@likkidixx respect.

    • @rodxavieres
      @rodxavieres 16 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Conheci Glen nas vezes em que ele tocou aqui com o Supla ( Um Punk daqui) no Brasil.
      Super atencioso e gentil...
      Meu sonho seria conversar com John meu maior ídolo e Steve Jones também!!!
      Acho que eles são uma mistura perfeita de cada um com sua personalidade!!!
      Deveriam se entender pois já estão na velhice!!!

    • @markgreet3543
      @markgreet3543 16 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@rodxavieres ???

    • @rodxavieres
      @rodxavieres 16 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@markgreet3543 olá!!!Sou do Brasil e natural de São Paulo Capital!!!
      Sou fã dos Sex Pistols desde os meus 16 anos!!!
      Meus tios foram punks, porém o Punk Rock no Brasil é fraco!!!
      Bandas medíocres!!!
      Hoje estou com 40 anos e ouço Pistols quase todos os dias!!!
      Espero que o PIL venha para o Brasil algum dia!!!
      Abraço pra vc 🙌

  • @tinamitchell7496
    @tinamitchell7496 ปีที่แล้ว +44

    "In Their Own Words"... really? I didn't see John, Jonesy or Cookie in the list of 'Stars' of this film, only Matlock. So edited snippets of 'Their Own Words', no actual first hand words in this production from anyone other than Glen The Grifter. Lots of opinion from 'others' with opinions. Another go at 'Pistol'

    • @ariesstar85
      @ariesstar85 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Totally agree with you have said

    • @TateGg-ji5lf
      @TateGg-ji5lf ปีที่แล้ว +1

      You should ask for a rebate.

    • @milehigh61
      @milehigh61 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Exactly! Who are these w*nkers

    • @gregdahlen4375
      @gregdahlen4375 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      how's he a grifter?

    • @TomLeach-dd8cl
      @TomLeach-dd8cl 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Glen wrote most of the songs on nevermind the bollocks

  • @numptyed1
    @numptyed1 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    whilst i love Sid to pieces, Glen was THE bassist for the pistols, no question. the "Sid Sings" LP is a good example of why

    • @anthonymagda9059
      @anthonymagda9059 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Yep we must reckon that Matlock was a Bass player, Sid was a punk rock groupie, perfect image for the band, only problem was HE COULD NOT PLAY BASS TO SAVE HIS LIFE, NOT TO MENTION HE WAS EXTREMELY YOUNG (THE YOUNGEST MEMBER BY A FEW YEARS).....HE WAS NOT PLUGGED IN AT SOME SHOWS, DUE TO HIS POOR PLAY, AND WAS SO FUCKED UP HE WOULD'NT EVEN NOTICE HE WAS NOT BEING HEARD...PUNK ROCK TO ITS CORE....RIP SIMON RICHEY AKA SIDNEY VICIOUS......

    • @dorjevajra
      @dorjevajra หลายเดือนก่อน

      Too bad they couldn't keep Glen on bass and have Sid double up with Johnny to sing. Almost like a 70s version of the beastie boys.

  • @pauljakubiak9495
    @pauljakubiak9495 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Awesome!!

  • @kevinwilliams5224
    @kevinwilliams5224 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    Sex Pistols....the only band to NOT grow into being part of the system. The system tried to eat them but kept puking them back out! True ROCK LEGENDS!👹

  • @scottsimmons6656
    @scottsimmons6656 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    “Video will return after ad”…. Doesn’t get much less punk than that.
    John is a professional contrarian.

    • @tinamitchell7496
      @tinamitchell7496 ปีที่แล้ว

      I hope you aren't referring to Lydon with that comment?
      He had zero to do with this opinion piece.

  • @mjh5437
    @mjh5437 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    God I SO wish I was old enough to have seen them play live.

    • @midlifebiker7424
      @midlifebiker7424 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      The gigs were pretty violent, I got my tooth knocked out by someone swinging a stool around like it was their dance partner.....
      Some ppl were throttling each other, spitting in each others mouths and deliberately vomiting....in the name of self deprecation....
      Bit of an eye opener for a 15yo.....
      I went on to become a skin and Stiff Little Fingers after the pistols...

    • @princegroove
      @princegroove 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Ok, boomer! 😂

    • @annemac
      @annemac 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I wish I was alive at the time to have seen them😭

  • @cejannuzi
    @cejannuzi 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The one thing they missed out on was being on an independent label (which in the case of the second wave of American punk meant bands having their own label). What's interesting is that in terms of changing pop culture and pop music, the Smiths also proved to be hugely influential. And they really came not long after the SPs had faded from the scene.

  • @betaville72
    @betaville72 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Sex Pistols: In Their Own Words wold imply it was the sex pistols telling the story 'in their own words' not, John Robb's words, or whoever.

    • @michaelsuder486
      @michaelsuder486 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Well, Glen Matlock's words....he was in the band. But yea I get what you mean

  • @sexobscura
    @sexobscura ปีที่แล้ว +12

    *"Hi, I'm Janet Street-Porter and I invented Johnny Rotten"*

  • @mickharrison9004
    @mickharrison9004 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Amazing........................grace 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧 we give you the most important band ever ,from the most important country ever ,who had the biggest empire ever 🇬🇧✌️

    • @michaelmerino9788
      @michaelmerino9788 ปีที่แล้ว

      🇬🇧 💩💩💩💩💩💩 🤨

    • @mickharrison9004
      @mickharrison9004 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@michaelmerino9788 come and say that to our faces retard .

  • @markgreet3543
    @markgreet3543 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The band were together 26 months, then they reformed 1996 2002 one gig only 2003 then 2007 finally 2008. John lydon felt they were running out of ideas after the usa tour and him and sid were having differences, he had a fight with sid before winterland gig,and notice hiw sid does high vocals on no feelings almost to poke fun at rotten during winterland gig.

  • @vox1966
    @vox1966 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I am 68 years old when I first heard the Pistols I was so happy being a Musician it was so hard to emulate Elp, Yes , Led Zeppelin and many more it was so refreshing to hear simple rock

  • @johngammon963
    @johngammon963 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Glen Matlock is the spine of the pistols - his bass lines are absolutely terrific - when he was replaced by Sid - musically speaking, it killed the band.

    • @donniewynn3277
      @donniewynn3277 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Glenn gets undeserved hate. He should have stayed in the band.

    • @leewhite2195
      @leewhite2195 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Holidays and Bodies are the best songs though,the only two without a co-write by Matlock.

    • @thesoundlikechameleons2082
      @thesoundlikechameleons2082 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      ​@@leewhite2195Steve Jones wrote the music. Vicious just played HIS notes BADLY 😂

    • @Metal_Horror
      @Metal_Horror 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      If you listen to any of their shit when Glen was still in the band, it sounds way different. You can even see it in this video, with examples like Pretty Vacant and Anarchy in The UK. Anarchy had several basslines, and the guitar had a pretty obvious flange/phaser effect. At the very least, the basslines were light years ahead of what they ended up being with Sid in the band. I love Glen's basslines. He was actually an above average bassist, and very creative. That combination between simplistic guitars and competent bass actually ended up being a fairly common setup in the punk world; Rancid, The Buzzcocks, Descendents, I could go on and on.
      Once Glen left, the basslines became Steve's simplified lines, which were fine, but Sid made them sound like shit most of the time. I've literally never heard anyone make a bass sound as bad as Sid standing up there popping the shit out of his strings, looking cool af. It's weird because at times he played them fine. It's almost like he was too lazy to play the songs decently.
      Bollocks still ended up sounding amazing (Jones playing bass), and it's possible that if Glen had stayed in the band, punk wouldn't have had so much of its "anybody can play punk", low barrier reputation, which was an absolutely huge part of the whole thing.

    • @Metal_Horror
      @Metal_Horror 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @thesoundlikechameleons2082 They talk about the songwriting process pretty extensively in the documentary, and Steve definitely did *not* "write all the music." Glen was the creative force, and by far the best musician. Once he left, songwriting stopped. It would've sucked to write without a bass player, especially when he's the one who came up with most of the ideas.

  • @georgemeacham8591
    @georgemeacham8591 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    good doco, but seriously, "in their own words"!

  • @user-lo1kf9qo2v
    @user-lo1kf9qo2v 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    貴重な映像❤

  • @grigorykolesnyk2985
    @grigorykolesnyk2985 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I've been listening to them since childhood. I still love it. God bless Sex Pistols❗✌️

  • @markgreet3543
    @markgreet3543 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I've been a fan since mid 1980s, started to collect 1987-1988 still adding to my collection forever more.

  • @0UtLAwSCuMFUcK
    @0UtLAwSCuMFUcK ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Never mind the bollocks still have it since the day I bought it in 77, also signed by all members. Incl Sid as well.

    • @johnbarry1965
      @johnbarry1965 ปีที่แล้ว

      Want to sell it? I wouldn't!!!

    • @gregdahlen4375
      @gregdahlen4375 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      how'd you get the signatures?

    • @0UtLAwSCuMFUcK
      @0UtLAwSCuMFUcK 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      sorry no :)@@johnbarry1965

    • @0UtLAwSCuMFUcK
      @0UtLAwSCuMFUcK 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I saw them here in Sweden, in Växiö, halmstad and helsingborg. Signatures I achieved in Stockholm, first hand ;)@@gregdahlen4375

    • @mjh5437
      @mjh5437 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Worth a lot of money is Sid is on it,his autograph is very rare because he died so yo.

  • @fluxfotos22
    @fluxfotos22 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    The blue nun kicked in and all hell was let loose.

  • @craigmorgan6010
    @craigmorgan6010 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I’m too young to remember 1977. I got into punk in the early to mid nineties [Offsprings classic smash album - NOFX - Bad Religion - Green Days Dookie album, Pennywise and so forth]. They reformed and toured very briefly in the nineties and I remember it being kinda funny and cool how - in the same way they slagged of other forms of music in the seventies - they slagged of the nineties punk bands of that time. Saying they weren’t really punk and how they were reforming to show them how it’s done.

    • @crusadeelectronics2444
      @crusadeelectronics2444 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      They were right and you were never part of the punk scene. It was dead by the 90's.

    • @musicloverchicago437
      @musicloverchicago437 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I understand the appeal of Green Day, Offspring, etc, but none of those bands were punk. They were pop trying to sound punk.

    • @StephenAPA
      @StephenAPA 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Sex pistols were pop. Pink only died to the bandwagon punks as in 2023 it’s definitely still alive.

    • @spek-27
      @spek-27 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@musicloverchicago437And the Sex Pistols were basically a boy band that was out together. So what?

    • @musicloverchicago437
      @musicloverchicago437 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@spek-27 McLaren chose people who were legit musicians except for sad Sid. Lydon is a genius, his style wasn't manufactured.

  • @spankflaps1365
    @spankflaps1365 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I think another spinoff from punk was their self deprecating comedy spirit, that inspired a generation of comedians like Ben Elton, Mayall, Edmundson, Planer, Newman, Baddiel, Reeves and Mortimer.

  • @matthewchicchi7262
    @matthewchicchi7262 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Your videos are very well researched, but can you please balance your audio? The music is screeching loud and the interviews are inaudible. You could get a freshman intern to do better work than this,

  • @brianconway100
    @brianconway100 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    “ Without the sex pistols we wouldn’t have had punk“, Are you for real? The punk movement had already started in New York, with a long lead up to it. In Glen Matlock’s own words, he took inspiration for Pretty vacant from Richard Hell’s ‘Blank Generation’ (we won’t mention Abba’s SOS). The Stooges I don’t wanna be your dog was 1969 for example. I love the pistols and they did have their own unique style (I’m English by the way, would like to say punk started here but I do accept the facts)

    • @bigdave1302
      @bigdave1302 ปีที่แล้ว

      The American 'punk' is more polished and safe, nothing like the real British punk.

    • @djquinn11
      @djquinn11 ปีที่แล้ว

      The MC5 and Stooges were from Detroit.

    • @brianconway100
      @brianconway100 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@djquinn11 Yes, exactly. As I said, started in New York, but with a long lead up to it (not only from New York). MC5, Stooges and many more.

    • @markrosenquist8259
      @markrosenquist8259 ปีที่แล้ว

      Exactly. The Stooges are The Godfather’s of Punk.

    • @Stranglerxx77
      @Stranglerxx77 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Iggy was influenced by seeing the doors play so Jim was probably the archetypal first punk outsider

  • @muzzymuzzmuzz1
    @muzzymuzzmuzz1 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Jon Robb's rather keen on the Pistols, isn't he?🤣🤣

  • @garywebster3585
    @garywebster3585 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Best punk single was Arabs in Arrads by the Art Attacks. Three minutes of musical and lyrical perfection.

    • @samwindmill8264
      @samwindmill8264 ปีที่แล้ว

      I've only ever heard "Neutron Bomb" and "I Am a Dalek"

    • @anthonymagda9059
      @anthonymagda9059 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      OPINIONS, LIKE ASSHOLES, EVERYONE HAS ONE, AND THEY PRETTY MUCH ALL SMELL LIKE SHIT......LIKE YOURS, OPINION THAT IS......

  • @radiantshimmer1
    @radiantshimmer1 20 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Exactly. There were only 4 or 5 into punk. In my school just me and 1 other! 😎

  • @Sameoldfitup
    @Sameoldfitup 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    It started in my head

  • @bingbamboo3332
    @bingbamboo3332 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Thank you. Great job

    • @TheStream
      @TheStream  ปีที่แล้ว

      Thanks for watching!

  • @mjh5437
    @mjh5437 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    One of those McLaren/Westwood t-shirts Steve is wearing at 2:22 sold for £27,000 about three years ago.

    • @FlawlessKam
      @FlawlessKam ปีที่แล้ว +2

      The swastika shirt Sid wore a bunch sold for 48,800. As a vintage lover myself seeing all these kids wearing shirts that would be later worth tens of thousands of dollars is fascinating.

    • @mjh5437
      @mjh5437 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@FlawlessKam48,000 Dollars or 48,000 Pounds? 😮😮😮

  • @Toneman2840
    @Toneman2840 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    First 60 seconds in stop a m.way were they the influence ref ib and jso?!!

  • @jcdova29
    @jcdova29 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Great bands don’t last very long. Johnny Rotten was the best frontman ever.

  • @SteveAbbott-Channel
    @SteveAbbott-Channel 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    62 here englisj live in Thailand. I still play the pistols

  • @areamusicale
    @areamusicale ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I saw the reunion in 1994.
    ... they played for only 20 - 25 minutes

  • @vinylzappa
    @vinylzappa 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    we just didn't want to be disappointed

  • @AndrewAHayes
    @AndrewAHayes 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Robb is talking out of his arse, Punk was coined in 1970 and referred to the garage rock scene, the pistols were always one step behind The Damned who were the first to release a single an album and tour the states, The Damned never thought of themselves as Punk when the band started, they were pigeon holed by the media as were The Sex Pistols, so the advent of British Punk was all down to the music press.

  • @victorbockris5423
    @victorbockris5423 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The Ramones started Punk Rock in New York in 1974. The British punk bands were influenced by The Ramones. Having said that The Sex Pistols were the greatest rock n roll band in the world during their glory days. Punk Lives. punk will never die.😊

  • @anthonymagda9059
    @anthonymagda9059 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Just love all five of em (sid), there never was and never will be a group that is this raw and this honest, PERIOD...... JOHNNY ROTTEN FOR PRESIDENT 2024....

  • @TomLeach-dd8cl
    @TomLeach-dd8cl 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Unfortunately i wasn't born till 1980 😢 definitely hear nirvana in them and plenty of us punk bands ! Would of loved to have been 20 when they were still about

    • @mjh5437
      @mjh5437 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      There had never been anything like ii….it was incredible,we never knew what would happen next from day-to-day,a fantastically exciting time.

  • @markmiddleton7120
    @markmiddleton7120 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    3.30 minutes, "Bernie Rhodes auditioned John Lydon" ? Never heard that before, is this true? Thought it was Malcolm Mclaren.

  • @jupiternash2888
    @jupiternash2888 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Just so alot of y’all know glen helped with the lyrics yeah but none of the band members kept making music besides paul but it didn’t get recognized at all compared to when john made up his own band PIL (Public Image LTD) and still was changing the music industry and punk also still went against the institutions etc john lydon is the true song writer compared to everyone in the sex pistols .

    • @jupiternash2888
      @jupiternash2888 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      And he’s always been humble and the same . 🐐♾️

  • @iamtnarea1503
    @iamtnarea1503 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Wish there was a guitar group that could come along now and have a similar impact.

  • @brianmallen8887
    @brianmallen8887 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Context. The guy with the Mohawk was right about that. The Sex Pistols were young, their fans were really young. Punk rockers were a scary, artistic, insular but dangerously independent very small group in 1 977. The first ones were art students, and naturally their bodies were their art. The music came after. Did the outfits match the music? Pretty much. Punk rock, new wave, disco, rap were all invented at the same time. Amazing. That's on top of Peter Frampton and Fleetwood Mac. All those late teenagers choosing their rock n roll allegiance. Silly how every body took it all so seriously. Fuck it. A good song is a good song. Who cares what the fucking genre is. Punk rock couldn't last, it burned too bright, became too physically aggressive. You know, the crowd that wants an open forum for violence. All the Sex Pistol contemporaries age-wise (Madonna, Prince, Michael Jackson) who dominated the next epoch were far more mellow, less fiery. Rock n Roll became less punk in sound. It was in fashion that punk rock had the most induring effect.

  • @tomihaili8756
    @tomihaili8756 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    "In their own words..." They interviewed only Matlock.

  • @waynesilverman3048
    @waynesilverman3048 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Steve played a fender for one gig ,that sound he got from his Gibson

  • @mustafakemal9547
    @mustafakemal9547 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    In their own words ???????? Really ? Its only Glen ? wheres the band ???

  • @imboaustim9498
    @imboaustim9498 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Wrong. They should have played Austin but actually played Randy’s Rodeo in San Antonio. This is great footage of the Dallas show though.

  • @leofranssen
    @leofranssen 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    A pistols docu without John in it. Really.. doesn't anybody notice. Are you all gone crazy.

  • @paulgrendall5138
    @paulgrendall5138 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Hope he still refuses to own a cell-phone!!

  • @richardrincon3090
    @richardrincon3090 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Does anybody remember that video were Johnny? Rotten and marky Ramon are arguing and Henry Rollins has a look on. His face as soon as they start fighting i'm gonna run

  • @victorbockris5423
    @victorbockris5423 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Punk began with The Ramones. In New York in 1974. 19:55

  • @adambutsch2820
    @adambutsch2820 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I love Fred armisens impression of jonny rotten lol

  • @user-xp6ss4vu3g
    @user-xp6ss4vu3g 9 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    Yeah I adored Sid Vicious as well all these years later I still love him but it's the f****** universe that we live in the reasons that things happen for whatever the hell the reason is that things have to happen a certain way and they do move in that way❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

  • @davidgoodfellow2384
    @davidgoodfellow2384 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    They certainly caused chaos brilliant band absolutely genius

  • @TheBrrp
    @TheBrrp ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I mean people especially English people seem to forget that in new York bands like the ramones and Blondie and Patty smith were already making punk music prior to the Sex Pistols so to say punk wouldn’t exist is just wrong haha. They definitely had a massive effect on punk and it would be a lot different wothout them. What about the damned?! They were around just before if I’m not mistaken. Thank god for the Sex Pistols they definitely layed a lot of the ground work but punk was already starting without them. They kind of made people aware though. And I mean what about iggy pop or Black Sabbath? They were the real originators especially iggy pop. He’s the godfather of punk music no question

    • @mjh5437
      @mjh5437 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      All those other bands you mentioned were good,but incredibly boring in comparison to what the Sex Pistols brought to the table.

  • @mrsuperger5429
    @mrsuperger5429 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Its a myth that Sid couldn't play bass guitar. He played on the SPOTS Tour and at Winterland. Both are on youtoob.

    • @okgood8529
      @okgood8529 ปีที่แล้ว

      Sorry but your wrong. Sid couldn't play at all. He and John were close friends, and he looked punk.

    • @michaelsuder486
      @michaelsuder486 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      It's not a myth. Both Steve and John said he couldn't play. He apparently tried to learn but then just gave up

  • @Phil1stalk
    @Phil1stalk ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Terrible sound volume. Spot interviews sound muddied and in low volume then the music clips come blasting in and you can't hear anything or get any continuity. Poor production. Pretty vacant.

  • @idkyoubrah
    @idkyoubrah 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    the best

  • @PURPLE_SHADE_SMOOTHIE
    @PURPLE_SHADE_SMOOTHIE ปีที่แล้ว +1

  • @gregdahlen4375
    @gregdahlen4375 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Sid did something at the gigs, he sang

  • @davidbolger2000AD
    @davidbolger2000AD 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Should've been called Glen Matlock In His Own Words!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • @jackdempsey9644
    @jackdempsey9644 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Did Sid vicious ever actually play the bass?

    • @TheStream
      @TheStream  11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Apparently, Vicious was allowed to play bass on one track, "Bodies", but his contribution was later overdubbed by Jones.

  • @josephyates7761
    @josephyates7761 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Not a bad film... good fun 😊

  • @psychobillyjim9962
    @psychobillyjim9962 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Punk started in New York at CBGBs, the punk Style came from England.

    • @markrosenquist8259
      @markrosenquist8259 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      The Stooges were around before CBGBs. They are The Godfather’s of punk.

  • @ariesstar85
    @ariesstar85 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I love the sex pistols but got to agree with some of the comments, how can a sex pistol in their own words programme, not have John lydon, Steve Jones or Paul cook? Without these 3 there are no sex pistols, not to mention John lydon wrote most of the music!

  • @gregdahlen4375
    @gregdahlen4375 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    john really pours on the british accent

  • @saudu-seuziramazanow7146
    @saudu-seuziramazanow7146 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Very natural behavior themselves as expressions their own opinion on what is going on in the World.

  • @PuckSlappy
    @PuckSlappy 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    The Damned's "Damned, Damned, Damned" was first and in many ways better. It was pure DIY not a major label. Sex Pistol album is good but it's too overproduced IMO.

  • @clydekimsey7503
    @clydekimsey7503 ปีที่แล้ว

    I saw them in san Antonio.
    Let's dont forget that the Ramones came first😊

    • @brianmorecombe2726
      @brianmorecombe2726 ปีที่แล้ว

      @Clyde Kimsey Forget ramones.They were after they toured the UK,not a punk band imo.Blitzkeirg pop/Belsen was a gas.What was a punk band and what wasnt.Enough said.

    • @clydekimsey7503
      @clydekimsey7503 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@brianmorecombe2726 If they aren't punk, how would you describe them? Im 64 and they were certainly called punk in the 70s

    • @brianmorecombe2726
      @brianmorecombe2726 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@clydekimsey7503 More of a new wave band tbh,or similar as.They started off trying to stand out from the NYdolls and Iggy pop but did neither really.They did a few nice little tunes on their road to ruin album but wasnt a real impact album,just another 70s rock album from another long haired 70s band

  • @ecoturismovalle1570
    @ecoturismovalle1570 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I jsut watched the Sid and Nancy movie. I feel sad for Sid who could have gone a lot farther with the Sex Pistols.

  • @SteveRes
    @SteveRes ปีที่แล้ว

    This should be renamed Sex Pistols in Glen's own words

  • @realsinisterminister
    @realsinisterminister ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Their own words?..........hahaha

  • @anadjokic253
    @anadjokic253 ปีที่แล้ว

    5:30 stage presence
    8:00
    10:00 violence on gigs
    13:00 anarchy in the UK
    30:00 god save the queen
    around 30:34 sid and glan basists stuff
    sid and nancy 37:00 start od their story and more about sid
    40:00 american tour and fall out
    46:00 their musical legacy

    • @layditms2
      @layditms2 ปีที่แล้ว

      lol why are you styled like our generation ( and older ) ?
      awkward

  • @Decimator-jh4gu
    @Decimator-jh4gu 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    No, without The Ramones, there would be absolutely nooooo Punk.

  • @billyrocca9029
    @billyrocca9029 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    The guy with the mohawk at the beginning is so wrong! Reducing rock before the Pistols to the stones and the Beatles is ludicrous! What about the Kinks? The Who? and countless other really interesting acts... As for Punk, lots of bands emerged at the very same time, with different approaches, but all focusing on bringing the old world down by all means possible. Among them were much better musicians than the Pistols like the Damned or the Stranglers and in another genre the Jam... it was all labelled as "new wave". Punk was some kind of simplified glam rock, pub rock with a touch of holliganism and hardcore bondage SM fashion clichés... My opinion anyway, and I was a Punk.

    • @raviscott4853
      @raviscott4853 ปีที่แล้ว

      Iggy & The Stooges and MC5 have a better claim to be punk's pioneers. IMHO of course.

    • @gregdahlen4375
      @gregdahlen4375 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      i'd think what you wear affects the music u make

  • @starofsiam1
    @starofsiam1 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Pistols in Glens words more like.
    Still worthwhile however.
    Bicker all you like but he was part of the engine and shouldn’t be denegrated.

  • @ladyhonor822
    @ladyhonor822 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    💋💋💋 I LOVE SID VICIOUS ❤️❤️❤️ AMEN Philadelphia USA ☦️

  • @rockjam4534
    @rockjam4534 ปีที่แล้ว

    If i don't do anything it's not because I'm lazy, it's because i haven't found anything I'm interested in. To the narrow minded who label people as lazy.

  • @britinbrazil7912
    @britinbrazil7912 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    For a band that was always touted as a collection of guys who couldn't play, Steve Jones and Paul Cook were pretty good if unpolished musicians, thrashing out some classic riffs. But don't believe the hype, listening to these songs almost 50 years later it's obvious there was some talent there, even John Lydon was a natural front man. Of course Sid Vicious didn't even try to play, still can't understand what the objective was in bringing him in - a complete and utter waste of space.

  • @brianmorecombe2726
    @brianmorecombe2726 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Elvis Presley,The Beatles,The Sex Pistols.Wheres the next music phenomenon going to happen? Answer NEVER.Thats it folks.

    • @michaelsuder486
      @michaelsuder486 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Hasn't happened since Nirvana