I was in Liverpool doing a little thing with Heaven 17. He wrote or co-wrote most of the songs on Never Mind the Bollocks Here’s the Sex Pistols but was ousted from the band in February 1977 and replaced by Sid Vicious. Such was the case with Glen Matlock – songwriter and bassist in the Sex Pistols, a band who changed the face of music in the short period they were together and were without doubt one of the most controversial and influential bands of all time. Never Mind The Bollocks, Here’s The Sex Pistols on can be bought here.It’s quite refreshing when you go into an interview expecting something of a tough customer and get the total opposite – one of the loveliest, most interesting conversations you could have. Nothing in the history of the UK album charts illustrates quite so wonderfully the vagaries of the record-buying public, perfectly encapsulating the phrase “pop music.”
In a delicious manifestation of the changing of the guard, Never Mind The Bollocks, Here’s The Sex Pistols replaced Cliff Richard And The Shadows’ 40 Golden Greats, but was then itself succeeded at the top by US soft-pop band Bread’s The Sound Of Bread compilation. 1 on the UK album charts, with advance orders of 125,000. But nothing could stand in the way of Mind The Bollocks’ success, and on November 12, the album went straight in at No. Virgin rushed their release forward, and in all the panic of pressing, 10,000 copies of the original Virgin pressings only listed 11 tracks on the sleeve, even though 12 were contained on the actual record. A bootleg named Spunk, featuring demos and recording sessions, and a version by the French record company Barclay, who had added an extra track to the record and were due to have their version on the shelves a week earlier. But before Virgin could release Never Mind The Bollocks, company boss Richard Branson discovered that there were two other Sex Pistols albums in the works. 2 on the UK charts.īoth “Anarchy In The UK” and “God Save The Queen,” along with “Pretty Vacant” and “Holidays In The Sun,” which were also single hits, appeared on the band’s debut album, the subtly titled Never Mind the Bollocks, Here’s The Sex Pistols, which was released on October 28, 1977.
The former home of progressive rock, now becoming a champion of the new wave, released “God Save The Queen” and saw it make No. However, within weeks, and despite tens of thousands of copies of the record already being pressed, A&M also dropped the group, after a fracas at their offices.Ī week or so later, Vicious made his live debut with the Pistols two months on, they signed their third contract, this time with Virgin Records. Since their new single was to be “God Save The Queen,” it was a move calculated to whip up yet more headlines. In March 1977, the Pistols signed to A&M Records and, in a cunningly conceived PR stunt, the signing “ ceremony” took place outside Buckingham Palace. Matlock was replaced by the man who invented pogo dancing: John Simon Ritchie, known to the world as Sid Vicious. After a riotous tour of Holland, the band were released from their contract by EMI, and bassist Glen Matlock left the band, going on to form Rich Kids with Midge Ure.
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