The « scam » of sex pistols: only one album, the Stacked Sid Vicious amplifier and a success that has lasted for 50 years

Sex Pistols didn’t know how to play. It wasn’t needed. In reigning bigotry, Marci teeth and distorted guitars were A perfect marketing To put on the shoulders, a very willing generation to be cheated. Schifo was even beautiful, however necessary to wash away too much conformist argument of a certain Solona England. A single disc, 4 singles, 5 years of life. More intense than this dies. But as Noel Gallagher says, one who knows about English music, nobody like sex pistols has influenced the overseas music.

Vivienne, Malcolm and that shop

It is 1975 and certain mornings the streets of Chelsea, in London, smell of that air that pinches your face. Too beautiful, too perfect. At 430 in Kings Road there is one of the most iconic stores in history. A young elementary school teacher rented it. There Swinging London Outside there it pushes that it is a pleasure.

Mary Quant cut her skirt to the young ladies. Vivienne Westwood studies as a queen of alternative fashion. She is engaged to Malcom McLaren. The hippies broke their balls, you need something new, especially on aesthetic level. The shop is called let it rock: The idea was to sell records, but Vivienne has taste and its size and sew Street Style I like it a lot around. It is no coincidence that those t-shirts are still pieces of history 50 years later and that shop, several signs later (« sex », «seditionaries» …), It is a mandatory stop For those who go from London.

Whips, leather trousers, torn shirts, skulls, bondage, More fetish you had more you were in the right. Our ugly, dirty and bad heroes, often pass from that shop. There is the whole London punk scene, Even Sid Vicious when he still didn’t know he was Sid Vicious. McLaren is a genius: in his own way he uses them as mannequins. He puts guitar, bass and battery on him. Then one day Johnny Rotten is also presented: Green hair, rotten teeth, voice working class, a shirt with the word « I hate the Pink Floyd ». Perfect: there was also the singer.

The beginning and end of Sid Vicious

Sex Pistols are the right thing at the right time. The only band that is not needed to tell the story to understand its weight: A concert is enough, the first. On November 6, 1975, Saint Martin’s College. It is up to the opening of the Bazooka Joe (very lively compliments at a distance for the name). Sex Pistols make more noise and pull those four agreements as there was no tomorrow. Ends up in fight, But they take the scene.

And the punk is born, which thanks to Never Mind the Bollocks So today inspires fans of the genre. In 1977 with the entry of Sid Vicious the mixture is explosive. Why sid, Son of a guardingham Palace guard and a toxic resident in Ibiza Well beyond the game threshold is really destroyed. He does not even take a note in the recording studio, so much so that he is regularly replaced by the former bassist Glen Matlock to which it was enough to be paid in advance to participate in the scam.

Live to Sid they detach the amplifier cable But scandal was a phenomenon. It becomes an icon and is the beginning of its end, also because her girlfriend Nancy Domgegen is A heroinomaniac prostitute who in New York has the days counted. The game at the Sid massacre ends on February 2, 1979. Suicide or overdose, however as he promised It closes it from Rockstar.

God save the queen in Westminster

Never Mind the Bollocks He was loved, hated, burst, especially censored. From the dawn, when The police went around kidnapped him from the shops Without realizing that he was giving the best possible advertising.

In the sights also end the Guardian and all the newspapers that gave space to these horrendous and vulgar thugs. The pinnacle of the rupture is completed on June 10, 1977 with the improvised of God save the queen played on a boat in front of Westminster on the day of the Jubilee. Bots, arrests and the single that takes off in the standings.

After all, it was a scam. But even the big cheats, if they do, do well. At 430 in Kings Road that mythological shop still leaves a track. Is called World’s endwith that crazy clock that turns on the contrary.