Posted February 12, 200718 yr Now and again, a band comes along and takes a sledgehammer to the definition of rock music: the Pistols were one of those bands. To a large extent, they were the creation of their manager Malcolm Mclaren, owner of a clothes shop in the King’s Road. But, like Frankenstein’s monster, the band escaped its creator and went on to raise havoc before being hounded to destruction by villagers with flaming torches. Music in the mid 70’s was in a terrible state where prog- rock had become a bloated parody of itself. All the ingredients were there to blow away the cobwebs of stadium rock, disco and glam rock. Appearing on a TV show Bill Grundy provoked them into swearing on live tv, and so ended his career but the pistols became a household name.
February 13, 200718 yr pure punk.... maclaren was nothing more then a promotional vehicle for rotten. maclaren didnt create them, ("nobody created me" ...rotten) as time has told, johnny rotten is still a free thinking, inteligent individual who steers his own course. rotten used maclaren, not the other way around. is suggest anyone wanting the truth about the sex pistols, that they watch "the filth and the fury"... the pistols own story.
February 13, 200718 yr Yeah, they popularised what was already going on underground and added some attitude, some hi-jinks and got the hell out early on. A masterstroke of Lydon to come back with the really interesting and great PiL and not another carbon copy of the Pistols. Pete Doherty and Carl Barat sitting there with your two Libertines-lite acts - take note!
February 13, 200718 yr A masterstroke of Lydon to come back with the really interesting and great PiL and not another carbon copy of the Pistols. Pete Doherty and Carl Barat sitting there with your two Libertines-lite acts - take note! exactly!.... lydon showed his true colours in PIL, who i think are very underrated and overlooked. its like the pistols were jut a big lark about by some kids... albeit a genuine motivation. PIL was like the mature rottens punk band... a serious take on punk rock. pil by pil was a superb first single with a terrific baseline.
February 16, 200718 yr Sex Pistols = incredibly significant but musically overrated PIL = incredibly underrated. Their debut single Public Image is the most eloquent two fingered salute in the history of music. cQKK5jbpNy8 PIL - Public Image My opinion of Malcolm Mclaren is on a par with another manager called McLaren at the moment (ie. an expletive egotistical clueless buffoon). Malcolm Mclaren was nothing more than a charlatan and a raconteur trying to persuade the youth of the times to buy the clothes that had been designed by his partner Vivienne Westwood and galvanise the media into hating anything to do with the hippy culture. Something that is underplayed in the history of NME is that Kate Bush's Wuthering Heights was voted by its readers the worst song of 1978. However, John Lydon hailed it the record of the year and the album "The Kick Inside" the album of the year. Famously in 2001 at the Q Awards John Lydon presented his good friend Kate Bush with a Q Lifetime Achievement Award which was spoilt by heckling from former Punk Keith Allen who drunkenly shouted abuse at John & Kate "What the f*** are you doing..... shes a f***ing hippy, etc". Keith Allen was then removed from the event. Fast forward to 2006 and Malcolm Mclaren hails Lily Allen "The greatest Popstar of the 21st Century" while John Lydon appears on stage in Malibu with Sandi Thom to perform "I Wish I Was A PunkRocker With Flowers In My Hair" and afterwards preceded to take Sandi and her band out on a bender where they all got arrested. Incidently he has said of Lily Allen "I've met enough frauds in my time to be able to smell bull$h!t & her music stinks of it."
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