England's dreaming : anarchy, Sex Pistols, punk rock, and beyond by Savage Jon

Author:Savage, Jon
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Sex Pistols (Musical group), Sex Pistols (Musical group), Sex Pistols, Punk rock musicians, Punk rock music, Punk culture, Punk culture, Punk rock music, Punk rock musicians, Punkrock
Publisher: New York : St. Martin's Press
Published: 1992-03-14T16:00:00+00:00

to push even further, to turn the Sex Pistols' violence into revolutionary activity. Yet now that it was in the hands of the music industry, Punk was a long way out of Glitterbest's and McLaren's control. So, almost, were the Sex Pistols.

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The official signing to ASM Records, Buckingham Palace, 10 March 1977 (© David Hill)

Accounts of the mechanics of sharping, and especially of simple confidence tricks, often seem absurd because they fail to convey the psychological adroitness that is the real core of the business. What the sharp most hoped to see in his prey's face was not stupidity but loneliness.

Kellow Chesney: The Victorian Underworld (WO)

The events of December and January had left the group and the management company drained, angry and paranoid: the Sex Pistols were enmired in indecision and enforced inactivity. Between the end of the Anarchy tour and the 'Secret Tour' almost nine months later, the Sex Pistols played only three concerts in Britain, all of which were stunts of one type or another, all of which were nearly impossible to see, and one of which was terminated early.

In the enforced layoff, the resentment between Glen Matlock and John Lydon came to a head. 'Glen was a mummy's boy,' says Lydon, 'the best musician out of the lot of us, but too bogged down into the

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