It came in the form of a double picture disc collectable LP, and was also released in plain vinyl form (and later, CD).
The album was made up of the band performing Ex and Sex Pistols tracks. The "band" re-appeared in 1988 with an album released in Japan, The Swindle Continues. The next recordings would appear on numerous Sex Pistols compilation albums including the songs "Schools Are Prisons" and " Revolution in the Classroom". Not only did it confuse fans but it also caused legal trouble between Dave Goodman and the publisher of the original piece, Boosey & Hawkes. Glen Matlock’s Sex Pistols Filthy Lucre Photofile was published by Foruli Codex on March 10th 2014.The first Ex Pistols release "Land of Hope and Glory" was a punk rock version of the old English classic " Land of Hope and Glory" by Edward Elgar.
It’s the same in 2013, except nobody sells any records any more." In this interview I said that music was healthier in 1996 than it had been in the 70s because guitar-based music was starting to come back. Also, if you speak into the backing vocals microphone, it’s usually not loud enough, so no-one can hear you and you look like an idiot.
I’ve got plenty of things to say, but I say them when I’m the frontman in my band. I think you should let the frontman be the frontman. I was the opposite: I didn’t say anything on stage because I don’t think you should. I’ve said this before: when I was in the band I was happy to be the bass player and let John be at the front, but Sid craved so much attention that it upset the balance. Sometimes I think John was hard on Sid for my benefit, because all he did in the band was steal the limelight. John had described Sid as a ‘coathanger’ at the press conference in London, meaning that Sid looked good in a leather jacket, which he did. In the end we used the beercan shot, which is pretty iconic: it’s even in the National Portrait Gallery. I put my foot down and said I wasn’t having pictures of him on the backdrop for the live shows, though. He was a likeable nitwit, although he had problems. That way it would be on the live album and he’d get some royalties. He deliberately didn’t do ‘No Fun’ as well, just for us – although I think it was beneficial for him if we did the song and he didn’t.
He was all sweaty with a towel wrapped around him and he said, ‘Hi Glen, how are you guys doing?’ He knew we were nervous. Iggy had it right, with his shirt off: he didn’t have to worry about stage clothes. I was kidding, though: he’s a mate.Īnd then I bumped into Iggy Pop, who was also on the bill, and when he came off I was chatting to him. Liam Gallagher was in there and I said ‘Oi, you! Fuck off, you cheeky cunt’. We had a portakabin in a field as a dressing room. "It was funny, that gig: I was the first member of the band who got there. Extract from Glen Matlock’s Sex Pistols Filthy Lucre Photofile:
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Glen Matlock’s Sex Pistols Filthy Lucre Photofile was published last month and DiS got a sneak preview of some of the images and an exclusive extract from the book.Ĭontaining images of previously unseen photographs and memorabilia plus Glen Matlock's detailed account of the groundbreaking 1996 Filthy Lucre tour, the beautifully designed colour paperback documents each stage of the journey, from the fractured beginnings between Matlock and lead singer Johnny Rotten, to the snubbing of Malcolm McClaren and turbulent relationship with the world’s press.