Will you be part of redressing one of the worst injustices ever?

[sp1814]

In 1977, the Sex Pistols got to number one with 'God Save The Queen'. It was never officially announced as the number one single (that 'honour' went to Rod Stewart's I Don't Want To Talk About It) - because it was seen as insensitive to the national mood at the time.

Is it now time to right this injustice and to go out (or stay in and download) and buy this song and give the Pistols the number one they were robbed of 35 years ago?

[Zeuhl]

... even Mick Hucknall!

[Sooper]

I left him out, the Pistols didnt seem to have much effect on him!!

[Zeuhl]

^^
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In a strange quirk of fate, he took Rod's place in a recent Faces reunion and Ronnie Lane was subbed by Glen (sex pistols) matlock on bass

[naomi24]

//sp's point is that the establishment manipulated the stats in order to 'avoid embarassment' for her maj.//

Or perhaps to avoid embarrassment to the country. ;o)

[mushroom25]

the pistols were also involved in one of the TV events of the seventies - the Bill Grundy interview on Thames TV's "Today" programme that ultimately finished his career - and the programme itself.

I couldn't believe what I was seeing when it happened :-o

[boxtops]

I read that they were invited to play at the Jubilee concert and they declined...

[emmie]

i hated it then, haven't changed my mind since.

[naomi24]

Me too, Em - and I haven't changed my mind either.

[emmie]

i hated the whole punk ethos, just a load of old *** in my opinion, put out by that arch punk Malcolm McLaren, with his eye on the main chance. which was to stick a load of pierced scruffy no can sing or play weirdos together, with enough attitude to appeal to the white middle class disaffected with the then music scene. no working class lads and lasses i knew liked punk, nothing musical about it, nor indeed lasted longer than a blink of an eye. The movement of punk did, but not something i ever was or wanted to be part of.

[emmie]

b ollox.

[sp1814]

I had zero interest in punk, but I still think it was out of order denying them their number place in the chart.

I've written to the Queen and the Lord High Chancellor asking for them to intervene to resolve the matter - perhaps with a formal apology from the Queen and a posthumous knighthood for Malcolm McLaren?

Am I going too far?

[emmie]

way over the hill and far away... bit like punk

[naomi24]

Go for it SP! I'd love to see the response. How funny! :o)

[emmie]

Off with his head comes to mind....

[naomi24]

Or even ORF with his head. ;o)

[emmie]

indeed, can see her Maj specs doing a bit of a turn, as to the corgi's, nuff said

[Lie-in King]

//Many of the people there were influenced and went on to have sucessful careers of their own:- Morrissey, Buzzcocks, Joy Division, Mark E Smith......//

With the exception (off the top of my head) being "Ever Fallen in Love (With Someone You Shouldn't've)", these people (and many others IMO, but not for this thread) are what the 'Mute' button was invented for...

[trt]

They should put whose left of the pistols in the tower of London on Jubilee day and chop their heads off :-)

[Zeuhl]

Very good rant there em
Very much in lineJust right for an interview with Bill Grundy

<<no can sing or play>>

Bit of a sweeping generalisation there...

and no more applicable to the better punk bands as to any rock n roll era

The Pistols were (and still are) a very tight band and artists such as Siouxsie Sue have produced high quality music for many years

You shouldn't believe McLaren's hype that they couldn't play and it was all his doing - he was always a great self-publicist

[Zeuhl]

trt

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a good impression of a boring old f@rt