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John Lydon talking about Paul Cook (2015)

#see he's the sane one #john lydon #johnny rotten #paul cook #sex pistols #punk #70's #interview #recent

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Johnny Rotten ripping the interviewer to shreds and being polite to an old lady immediately after (1977).

#look at that look at that real- 😐 #johnny rotten #john lydon #sex pistols #interview #1977 #punk #70's

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An excerpt from the famous man who kicked his own TV after watching the live broadcast of the Sex Pistols on the Today show aired on the Thames Television channel (December, 1976)

#sex pistols #john lydon #johnny rotten #steve jones #paul cook #glen matlock #siouxsie sioux #siouxsie and the banshees #bill grundy #1976 #70's #punk #interview

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Absolutely outrageous attitude from the Sex Pistols when arriving in the USA for the first time (1978).

#they're a threat #sorry about the audio guys :/ #sex pistols #johnny rotten #john lydon #john simon ritchie #sid vicious #paul cook #steve jones #70's #punk #us tour

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Viv Albertine recounting her experience on “going down” on Johnny Rotten.

From her autobiography ‘Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys: A Memoir’ (2014).

#this reads like a whisper's shitpost fanfic #johnny rotten #john lydon #viv albertine #the slits #sex pistols #candid #personal life

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Paul Cook’s mum interview for the Daily Mail after the Bill Grundy incident (1976).

[Image ID: On the left the title reads ‘My Paul the punk, by his mother’. Then continues:

The punk rock drummer Paul Cook may be in for a rotten suprise next week.

When he returns home from a somewhat disrupted tour, he is likely to find he’s no longer welcome.

For his mother, 44-year-old Mrs Sylvia Cook, is heartily fed up with Punk Rock in general and the Sex Pistols pop group in particular.

“For four years my bedroom has been full of drums” she said yesterday at her [illegible] two-down council house in Hammersmith.

“I wouldn’t mind if he played tunes, but it’s just bang bang bang. My hall is full of Sex Pistols’ dirty washing and my husband has temporarily left house because he can’t stand the rows. It’s rotten. The Sex Pistols don’t believe in anyone giving them advice, especially mothers and fathers. I’m going to make a very nice little dining-room out of Paul’s bedroom. I don’t think I really want him back.”

On the right, the subtitle reads ‘Loutish’. And underneath that:

Mrs Cook is not suprised that The Sex Pistols’ swearing loutishness on TV caused such storm and led to the cancellation of many tour bookings. In fact, after finding the  group’s singer, Johnny Rotten, in her house one day, nothing suprises her.

“I found him sleeping in the wrong end of Paul’s bed. I don’t quite know what I’d found, because his hair was multi-coloured, mainly ginger. When he got dressed he was smothered with safety pins, [illegible] dummy round his neck and a razor blade. After he’d been around a I used to tell my husband that it wasn’t suprising he couldn’t get any pins to eat his winkles because Johnny Rotten had them all. We all had a say in calling him Johnny Rotten, because his teeth were all green and decayed.”

Mind you, says Mrs Cook, Johnny Rotten never swore at her.

“He was a very quiet boy... depressing looking. He never ate much and used to sit on the step in the back kitchen.”

As for 20-year-old Paul, she thinks he takes his musical talent from her side of the family.

“His great-grandmother, who’s now 89, plays the piano and I’m quite a singer myself round in the pub”

Even when he was very small he used to play the biscuit tins.

“I’ve asked the band to play for me at parties, but they refuse. They say I’m old fashioned.”

Now Mrs Cook is off to Ramsgate with her 13-year-old daughter, Margaret, to spend a quiet Christmas away from the pressures of Punk Rock.

Had she bought a present for her son perhaps?

Mrs Cook was not amused.

“What I feel like giving him for Christmas is a punch on the nose.” she said. END]

#she ate him up 😭 #paul cook #sex pistols #bill grundy #punk #70's #interview #personal life #mum

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Sex Pistols’ poster for show in Club du Chalêt du Lac, Paris (September 5th, 1976).

#sex pistols #paul cook #john lydon #johnny rotten #steve jones #glen matlock #sid vicious #punk #70's #poster

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Steve Jones famous uncredited quote for NME (1976).

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Paul Cook and Steve Jones during the recording for ‘Anarchy In The UK’ (1976).

#paul cook #steve jones #anarchy in the uk #sex pistols #punk #70's #candid

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John and Sid being complete dicks to the adorable miss Poly Styrene.

From the movie ‘Poly Styrene: I Am a Cliché’ (2021) dir. Paul Sng and Celeste Bell.

#poly styrene #john lydon #johnny rotten #sid vicious #sex pistols #movie #punk #70's #x-ray spex #john simon ritchie

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Steve Jones and his now ex-girlfriend Nina Huang (not sure what year this is)

#got this one off of steve's book #the caption read 'nina looking cute' #steve jones #sex pistols #punk #nina huang #personal life

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Steve Jones naked in Paris (1976).

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Sex Pistols interview for Sound Magazine (1976)

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Sex Pistols show poster for The Screen on the Green’s Midnight Special (august 29th, 1976)

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