![]() The notion of a Sex Pistols 10th-anniversary reunion tour had been floating about, so, of course, the topic is raised. He’s backstage at the Orpheum Theatre in Boston, employing his usual glare - intimidation flag playfully raised to its normal position, Rotten button switched on. “We’re all ugly and we know it.”)īut here we are post-Pistols with Rotten, going by his given surname of Lydon, singing with Public image Ltd. “You can stop staring at us,” said Rotten. (I saw the debut in Atlanta’s Great Southeast Music Hall. Let’s flash back a decade prior, to June 1986, a full eight years after the Sex Pistols disintegrated following their only US tour. VIDEO: Sex Pistols Filthy Lucre in Japan 1996 Young punk upstarts after two decades: Who’da thunk it? And why would it work? 27, a few times, the first being the 1996 Pistols 20 th anniversary reunion tour where the newspaper for which I worked, the Boston Globe, sent me to the Washington, D.C. I’ve spoken with Matlock, who turns 65 on Aug. Contentiousness is built into Rotten’s DNA. Rotten is petulant and probably pissed off because evidently the series doesn’t center around him – hey, he wrote a memoir, too! – and he feels the legend will be tarnished by TV or there’s not enough filthy lucre going his way. The series is based on Jones’ highly entertaining, celebratory and, yet harshly self-critical memoir. He’s also currently one of the three – the others being guitarist Steve Jones and drummer Paul Cook – who are in favor of Danny Boyle’s in-the-works biopic series, Pistol, the petulant holdout being, of course, Rotten. Matlock is the forgotten guy, but the guy – it has been said – who was responsible for much of the melody that powered Johnny Rotten’s scathing and super-smart lyrics. Matlock did not look as punk rock as the guy who OD’d and died, and, unfortunately Sid, in death, has become an icon of the times. Fired in February of 1977 for liking Paul McCartney and his silly love songs? So that myth goes, a line propagated by the late Pistols Svengali Malcolm McLaren. ![]() Or was told to take a figurative long walk off a short peer. ![]() Sid Vicious was the Sex Pistols’ most famous bassist, but Glen Matlock was the one who could play. Glen Matlock with the Sex Pistols (Art: Ron Hart) ![]()
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