The Sex Pistols were totally anti authority and anti monarchy. They made a big impact considering they only had one album then imploded. Anarchy In The UK would be the next song to check out. There's a TV show coming out about the Sex Pistols that'll be well worth checking out.
@djinn_jer
2 жыл бұрын
Would you count "the great rock & roll swindle" as a Sex Pistols (+guests) album, given the film was all about Malcolm McClaren?
@sexpistol7712
2 жыл бұрын
@@djinn_jer no ,pure and simple . 1 album 4 singles was the sex pistols
@jefffenn3378
2 жыл бұрын
@@djinn_jer yeah just a load of old demos and a lot of gimmic songs like who killed bambi etc (although the Sex pistols demos are great to hear )
@djinn_jer
2 жыл бұрын
@@jefffenn3378 when I first heard 'frigging in the rigging' 😂🤣😂🤣 Thanks for the feedback brother 🤜🏻🤛🏻
@shibaanimagaming4433
2 жыл бұрын
I refuse to watch the show after what they did to Johnny rotten in court
@johnplaysgames3120
2 жыл бұрын
Punk in the 70s, especially in the UK, sprang up from disenfranchised youth and working class who were being hit hard with unemployment, poverty, blackouts, and various types of social upheaval. It sprang from multiple factors, including a feeling of hopelessness ("no future"), frustration with the government, the older generation, pop culture, and authority in general, leading to an embrace of nihilism, anger, and purposely trolling the status quo. Along with that was the idea that you shouldn't have to be a musical virtuoso or, y'know, good at singing or playing your instruments like Led Zeppelin or any of the big arena rock bands or whatever to be able to get up, make music, and have your voice and/or message heard. Punk bands were, like, "Yeah, I can't really play my guitar very well and, yeah, we yell more than we sing and, yeah, our lyrics aren't poetry but why shouldn't we be able to make music too? Why should we have to wait for the gatekeepers to give us permission?" That's not to say that there weren't really good musicians playing punk music as well. The point was simply that you didn't have to be. It was a democratization of music. Hell, the bassist for the Sex Pistols, Sid Vicious, started out as a fan of the band and couldn't even really play his bass (and sometimes didn't even plug it in during shows). He was there because he had the look and the attitude. He was a punk icon who represented everything that punk was: dark, decadent, and nihilistic. Meanwhile, the rest of the band - Johnny Rotten on vocals, Steve Jones on guitar, and Paul Cook on drums - were holding down the musical part of it. At the time of this song, it would've been the older generation that would be most horrified by how much the Sex Pistols were disrespecting the Queen, England, and traditional notions of society and decorum. In fact, the video you watched took place on the silver anniversary of the Queen's coronation when the government were holding a big celebration to honor that. The Sex Pistols rented a boat and drove up and down the Thames, past the houses of Parliament, playing this song at top volume (which has lyrics like "God save the Queen / The fascist regime / They made you a moron" and "God save the Queen / She ain't no human being / And our figurehead / is not what she seems" and "God save the Queen / 'cuz tourists are money"). What you saw throughout the video was the police boarding the boat, the Sex Pistols manager, Malcolm McLaren, being arrested, etc. That was not just a music video, it was documenting what happened as the band trolled the Queen's anniversary celebration. As others have mentioned, although the song hit #2 (iirc) on the charts, the name was blurred out, they were banned from playing concerts, and radio stations wouldn't play (or weren't allowed to play) the song. These were real-deal rebels giving the finger to the government and the society around them. While there were definitely rich-kid punks and people like Malcolm McLaren who came at punk from more of a trend-setting direction, a lot of punk came out of folks living shitty lives in the council estates, which is basically the British version of the projects (cheap government housing for the poor). In that way, you could almost compare punk to hip-hop, especially the rise of gangsta rap and that kind of music that blew past the usual boundaries of what was considered polite, socially acceptable music at the time and instead talked about the real struggles of the poor, hatred for/distrust of authority, and a middle finger to the social mores that had come before. Plus, that early gangsta rap was coming from regular dudes on the street who made music with what they could, sometimes with very simple beats and no ability to play regular instruments, instead of letting record companies and tradition dictate who could make music. Basically, both punk and rap were movements of regular dudes in the street taking back music for themselves and doing it (and doing it their way) whether the gatekeepers wanted them to or not. The next Sex Pistols song you should check out is "Anarchy in the UK." You'll definitely get some more of their vibe and message from that one. I mean, the Pistols only had one studio album before they broke up but that whole album is fire.
@wkynes
2 жыл бұрын
And thats why I will always love this era in Music. Pure.raw.greatness
@derkabronen
2 жыл бұрын
and not to forget, musically it was a countercurrent against progressive complicated bands like Pink Floyd, it was easy music at the grasp of any teen with an instrument
@Raider577
2 жыл бұрын
What they don't tell you was that Punk was not big like they make it out it was. If you listened to the big stations in the UK at the time like Radio 1 and Capital Radio(London) they would play the odd punk record but would mainly be playing mainstream pop, rnb, novelty and rock music.
@johnplaysgames3120
2 жыл бұрын
@@Raider577 That's often true of those kind of musical moments in history. Even the local "rock" stations where I grew up (California) when I was a teen (after punk had come and gone) mostly played the lowest common denominator hits and delved very little into other, alternative genres unless a band had a particularly big, high-selling crossover song. If I wanted to hear punk or metal that wasn't a power ballad or, later, some sort of pop punk summer phenom, I had to resort to those "middle of the night" shows like 120 minutes and Headbanger's Ball on MTV or, like, "Rodney On The Rock" on KROQ. Otherwise, it was the same 20 popular songs from what the programmers considered the least offensive, most profitable section of whatever genre they specialized in, over and over and over. The real measure of the power of punk, metal, or any other genre that blows up at some point is the effect it has on the music and musicians that follow it. And punk has had a continual influence on various genres, fashions, and attitudes that came after. Sadly, it was mostly a stylistic influence (as all revolutions in music eventually get watered down to) but punk definitely made its mark. For one small example, without punk there would've been no Nirvana or, likely, any of the grunge that followed. I'm sure there are countless examples of this influence across various genres. That being said, I could've done without pop punk, lol. And I still laugh (and am slightly sad) at the fact that I was able to buy an "anarchy" shirt at the mall. I made a joke about it to the salesperson at the time (at Hot Topic) and she didn't understand why I thought it was so funny or that I was buying it ironically.
@druidswillow1052
2 жыл бұрын
Couldn't have put it better myself Nice one
@MrNeilypops
2 жыл бұрын
Great song! I was 18 years old when this was released in 1977. I still have the original 45/single. This record caused a great stink in the UK at that time. It was the Silver Jubilee of the Queen that year and a lot of society could not get their head around the fact that a punk band were releasing a single like God Save The Queen. At that time in the UK there were many changes happening in society...economy was the major issue...also there was a big push back against the old 'monsters of rock'...the big rock groups of the time....punk only lasted a couple of years but brought a breath of fresh air to the music industry in my opinion.
@maggiew.2809
Жыл бұрын
Agree
@purplebongo27
10 ай бұрын
The video shows them on a boat onthe Thames during the jubilee celebrations...hence the police presence! Great times during tough times. 💜🏴🌻
@PaulHanney
2 жыл бұрын
England at the time was an absolute mess. 3 day working weeks, miners strikes, electricity shortages and rioting in the inner suburbs of all major cities. There were some good times though.
@johndinsdale4454
2 жыл бұрын
What goes around....
@normandavidtidiman9918
2 жыл бұрын
All of that happened either before 1977 or afterwards. The 3 day working week was in 1973 -74,and there were not wide spread riots until 1980-81. There had been riots in Notting Hill though,and the winter of disconnect under the Labour Government where they were wide spread strikes - not electricity shortages.
@PaulHanney
2 жыл бұрын
@@normandavidtidiman9918 My dad remembers the elctricity shortages becvause the road lamps in our road had to be turned off at 7pm every night.
@normandavidtidiman9918
2 жыл бұрын
@@PaulHanney Before '77 though.
@thomasgoodisson8877
2 жыл бұрын
Spot on my friend !!!
@smokeyverton7981
2 жыл бұрын
John Lydon gives some of the best interviews ever. At age 66 still sharp as a whip
@Sirlarrythecat
2 жыл бұрын
He is full of shit just trying make himself relevant and failing really bady. oh let me buy Farage a pint and support a moron like tRump. Liedon has had his 15 minutes but can't see that he's no longer relevant and is so desperate for attention he resorts to going on Gammon Brexit News saying how much he loves England but he lives in Hollywood.
@kevinmorrice
2 жыл бұрын
Total nonce
@TreVader1378
Жыл бұрын
Oh yes.
@DarkAngel1985Mike
2 жыл бұрын
Loved this since my early childhood, I grew up on punk like the Sex Pistols,The Ramones,The Clash,Iggy Pop and the Stooges,Generation X/Billy Idol,Suicidal Tendencies
@karenarcher10
2 жыл бұрын
This song was banned on a lot of commercial radio at the time but it came 2nd in the UK Charts. There was a big thirst for anti-establishment politics as the country was going to the dogs. The video for this is live filming - on 7 June 1977, the Jubilee holiday, the band attempted to play the song from a boat named the Queen Elizabeth on the River Thames, near the Palace of Westminster. The police you see in the footage arrested 11 of them. The guy with the red hair being carted off was Malcolm McClaren, their manager and well know music producer.
@wiseblood90
2 жыл бұрын
It was no 1 but the bbc fiddled it so they didnt have to play it
@annebokma4637
Жыл бұрын
McLaren always had an eye for publicity. This stunt made sure the whole UK knew who the Sex Pistols were 😃
@sparky6086
Жыл бұрын
They would have been #1, but behind the scenes, this was forbidden. Some charts just left the #1 listing blank.
@stevewright3769
2 күн бұрын
Pistols were out selling Rod Stewart 2 to 1 but they couldn't have God Save The Queen at number 1 in jubilee year.
@ptrip5182
2 жыл бұрын
I was a teenager in the late 70s in London and thought the Pistols were hilarious. My parents and grandparents thought they were disgraceful. I remember watching early evening television with my brother and the Pistols were being interviewed on live TV, the interviewer Bill Grundy encouraged them to say 'bad words' and they starting swearing. It was so funny - and especially to a 14 year old. The older generation were so shocked - we loved it, just a couple of years later and I was singing in punk bands myself. Happy days.
@steroberts
2 жыл бұрын
These came out at the right time, same as the Specials. Two bands who perfectly summed up what a grim time my country was going through in the late 70s.
@steroberts
2 жыл бұрын
Little did they know at the time, things would get a whole lot worse during the Thatcher era.
@johnnyenglish5976
2 жыл бұрын
Don't mention that name please
@mikeboosh8776
2 жыл бұрын
@@steroberts I was alive during both and trust me the 70s were much worse. I don't remember the lights going out and rubbish piling up in the streets during the 80s.
@mikipiediaelburro7588
2 жыл бұрын
A great time to grow up around all that different music.I grew up in East London during the 70s and 80s..Punk/Ska revival/Reggae/Dub/Soul/ Disco / Rock/Post Punk/New Wave /New Romantics through to the genesis of House and Techno ..blessed
@artistar71
2 жыл бұрын
@@mikeboosh8776 Nor were you a Miner, I suspect, who lost their livelihoods and respect from a Nation, that were fed lies through media of the day.
@Grington300
2 жыл бұрын
Taking me back to my youth. English and American punk are two different things. English punk was probably inspired by the American punks, but was more of a protest movement than just a musical style, the social climate wasn't good. Jobs were getting harder to come by, so kids leaving school went straight on the dole and a load of them were very disillusioned. Get the "No Future" lyric in this song. Punks did everything they could to oppose the establishment - the music was rough (many of them couldn't actually play the instruments beyond the basics), they tried to make the most noise to annoy people if they could, the lyrics were angry, the clothes were virtually rags held together with safety pins and staples (the fashion industry did what they could to cash in on the style of course ... completely missing the point). At the gigs the crowd would gob (spit) at the bands (and the bands would gob back) and the closest thing to dance was pogoing ... best comparison is probably the mosh pits we have today. 'God Save the Queen' went to number 1 in the UK charts - but the charts were fixed so it didn't show and I think the BBC refused to play it. This was 1977, Queen Elizabeth's silver jubilee - that was the EiiR you saw - it stands for Elizabeth 2 Regina. She ascended the throne 25 years earlier in 1952 and the whole country was meant to be celebrating (it is her platinum jubilee this weekend I think - 70 years on the throne, so good timing with this), but things weren't all great with the country at that time (and they only got worse from 1979). Reading the comments John Plays Games has explained it all far better than me.
@sparkesman1980
2 жыл бұрын
No....No.... No,way was English punk inspired by America lol. English punk was inspired at the time, by the establishment and system in the uk in the mid 70s.....it was Chaos.....anarchy.....rebelling against the state. I watched the Pistols live in England in 1976 and I can assure you American influence wasn't on the agenda.....we where young kids who were just sick and fed up of no job prospects or worthwhile future......I ###### know cause I was there
@Grington300
2 жыл бұрын
@@sparkesman1980 I was there too. I probably didn't explain myself properly. I'm not saying English punk as a movement was inspired by America at all other than maybe that's where the basic idea of just picking up instruments and making a noise came from ... and the word "punk" is American. Read my first paragraph again and we are in complete agreement other than where the name comes from. After that English punk went off in a completely different direction.
@Blisteryn
2 жыл бұрын
Nowadays, people talk shit about John Lydon but he is the real deal, he is the true punk icon.
@MasterMarf
2 жыл бұрын
to awnser your question about the society in england about that time. the song went no. 2 in the charts, but was blurred out on every chart. they also recived a nationwide ban from playing concerts. the royal family and politicians were really mad, the people loved it.
@MetalRocksMe.
2 жыл бұрын
This song was stopped from being No 1 because it coincided with the queens jubilee…
@tazzywazzywoowoo
2 жыл бұрын
Nope
@markybko
2 жыл бұрын
Correct
@Jimmy_Cooper
2 жыл бұрын
Yip
@rajnafilipovic3137
2 жыл бұрын
Real punk!!! ❤️❤️❤️ I'm a metalhead, but it doesn't matter, when it's good, it's good!!! You two are adorable!!!
@goranilincic2644
2 жыл бұрын
Isto. Skoro da prezirem pank ali njih volim. 😁
@rajnafilipovic3137
2 жыл бұрын
@@goranilincic2644 Ja volim punk rock. Offspring, Bad Religion, Ramones.
@goranilincic2644
2 жыл бұрын
@@rajnafilipovic3137 postujem svacije 👌
@artistar71
2 жыл бұрын
@This is 86 calling Control. Come in, Control... Nahhhh, it's a swindle!!!!!!!!!
@Pizza-c3v
2 жыл бұрын
Punk its more metal than metal....
@lencooke944
2 жыл бұрын
Bob Geldof famously said that three things happened in the '70s; The Sex pistols, The Saints and The Ramones.
@spinynormanbest6410
2 жыл бұрын
Yeh, but Bob geldof is T - w- a- t
@ShanLH5
2 жыл бұрын
“Ever get the feeling you’ve been cheated?” Iggy and the Stooges- Search and Destroy
@schelin1447
2 жыл бұрын
The 70's in Britain were not easy and the punk movement put a light on it. A band like Sex Pistols were needed back then
@austinfallen
2 жыл бұрын
Saw these guys live at a 90’s reunion. They still had it. Pretty vacant was always my favourite. Back when they started they were a kinda voice for the voiceless, before that phrase became cliché. Not afraid to go on national telly and bitch about how screwed everything was. The Pistols, the Damned, the Clash. Great bands great times (musically), not always great time as far as the public was concerned *edit* I now have new rose by the dammed stuck in my head. I can live with that lol
@sherbert500
2 жыл бұрын
and got away with saying va-cunt on the radio lol
@j.r.weaver9110
2 жыл бұрын
Is she really going out with him?
@peterramsay4674
2 жыл бұрын
They were at the forefront of punk rock. Iggy started the whole thing in1969 with I Want to be your Dog way , way earlier. They are both responsible for influencing the direction of other punk bans throughout the seventies. It’s funny punk flourished at the same time as disco ruled the airwaves. I think it’s great that music will continue to morph from one thing to another.
@kevchristyward-janzen9610
2 жыл бұрын
I think "The New York Dolls" from the states started it all as Malcolm McLaren saw them and hooked up with my favorite clothing designer Vivian Westwood and brought the style, energy and attitude back to the UK and created the Sex Pistols. "Malcolm has been arrested" which you hear in the video related to Malcolm McLaren their manager.
@Capnsensible80
Жыл бұрын
@@kevchristyward-janzen9610 Not just the NY Dolls but other NY bands like Television and the Dead Boys. Malcom wanted to start and manage a band after he had seen these bands and what Andy Warhol had done with The Velvet Underground. All of it was Malcolm aping the scene in NY. That isn't a criticism per se, I LOVE the Pistols (except that poser Sid Vicious, he was a real POS and no-talent scum who was just brought into the band later in their lifespan because he had the right look), they were incredible, and they sounded great and had a lot to say. They were hugely influential. They may not have started punk rock, but they embodied it to its fullest.
@hazi5961
2 жыл бұрын
When this song hit the top 10 in England in publications, the spot the song was in was left completely blank.
@CBGB_1977
2 жыл бұрын
It was like #1: #2 David Bowie “Heroes” #3 blipblipblipblipdipdipdippydip How much more Punk can you be to not have their #1 song blacked out? That’s badass in it’s self!
@jackiejo3812
2 жыл бұрын
Most old Brit punks would agree that the 'first punk single' was New Rose by The Damned, released about six months before God Save The Queen.
@insertname9916
2 жыл бұрын
UK punk and US punk are two very different things. Both good in their own way though....You guys should check out Crass.
@fnordianslippers
2 жыл бұрын
Good call about Crass. I suggest Systematic Death. This vid has the lyrics. kzitem.info/news/bejne/qp2kq41-qZd9lGk
@sidhawkwind8179
2 жыл бұрын
I've seen Crass 3 times back in 78-79....BTW...UK Punk> US Punk 🙂
@sidhawkwind8179
2 жыл бұрын
@This is 86 calling Control. Come in, Control... Cheers Mate👍
@f0rth3l0v30fchr15t
2 жыл бұрын
6:50 E II R, the Royal Cypher of Her Maj. E for Elizabeth, R for Regina (Latin for Queen) II because there's already been a queen liz. I mean, her mum was called Elizabeth too, but she wasn't the head of state.
@ryancoke777
2 жыл бұрын
Can't believe Johnny Rotten was just on the last season of The Masked Singer lol
@Prairiepagan316
2 жыл бұрын
I was a kid in the 70's. This music was cutting edge at that time.
@TreVader1378
Жыл бұрын
When Johnny snarled out "we're the future, your future", the establishment shat themselves, and it's never gone back, we really were their future.
@johnreed419
2 жыл бұрын
Watched pistols on Hulu. And now lm a fan . And l am 48 years old . As a teenager l was a skateboarder punk. But none of my friends listened to them and they And l never heard any one of their songs on the radio 📻. God save the Queen one but they never played them on the radio . But it was a number 1 song.
@kaiowas12
2 жыл бұрын
God Save The Queen is the UK's national anthem, obviously not this version lol
@kevinsieg2076
2 жыл бұрын
guys, great energy as always-- this record was the best-selling record in Britain at its release but was banned from any airplay in the country.
@veevamm3642
2 жыл бұрын
Hands down one of the most influential bands ever. Really a genius band and concept. Nevermind the Bullocks is a classic album! Steve Jones is a God
@mikekelly5869
2 жыл бұрын
I didn't know that the Sex Pistols ignored cattle! They didn't like bollocks either 😄
@pastorofmuppets22
2 жыл бұрын
Idk how genius they were?As far as players,they were abysmal.Concept wise... I'm with you.Album being a classic, I'm with you.Musical proficiency?I have students I teach theory to,that 6 months in... could wipe the floor with the Sex Pistols
@gmantramp404
2 жыл бұрын
@@pastorofmuppets22Paul Cook is an excellent drummer and that quality of drumming he's playing doesn't come in 6 months 👍
@davidhuggan6315
Жыл бұрын
The climate in 1977 in the UK was high unemployment, strikes, lots of problems. Meanwhile, the Royal Family celebrated the Queen's Silver Jubilee with an expensive celebration, and this song was part of the reaction to their rich life compared to the life of the average working class British person.
@eloisepasteur
2 жыл бұрын
Just thought you might like to know both this version and a charity version of the official national anthem are both in the charts again this week for the Queen'x Platinum Jubilee. While a lot has changed sine 77, that particular divide is still with us. On a different note, the flaming letters were EiiR. It’s the official crest of the Queen, ER is Elizabeth Regina (Queen Elizabeth in Latin), the II because she’s the second.
@sparky6086
Жыл бұрын
The Sex Pistols first gig in America, was in Atlanta, Georgia, because they were too controversial for New York City. I remember, that they played at The Great Southeastern Music Hall at Broadview Plaza near K-Mart in 1977. All that was torn down & redeveloped long ago. Seems like yesterday. Time flies...
@Danarchistic1
2 жыл бұрын
Punk started in the U.S. It used to be accepted that Ramones or New York Dolls started punk. Now, it's pretty much considered that Death, out of Detroit, started the musical style a year or two earlier.
@scifimonkey3
2 жыл бұрын
This is amazing timing given that this coming weekend 2nd-5th June is the Queens Platinum Jubilee celebration in the UK - Thats 70 years as queen, the longest reigning monarch ever. There are very few people in the country that have known any other monarch.
@Davey-Boyd
2 жыл бұрын
And this song was back in the charts again too!
@bullfidde
2 жыл бұрын
Louis XIV ?
@Capnsensible80
Жыл бұрын
8:40 Hooo boy. So not only were there patriots that hated them for what they represented, what they were doing in this video was actually illegal. This was during the Silver Jubilee, on a boat on the river Thames. The song was #2 on Billboard but Billboard refused to print the song title, and just left a blank entry. Most major distributors refused to sell the single, and parliament tried to band ALL sales of it. During this protest on the Thames, the police chased down the boat and arrested them when they reached dock. Fun fact, since they were so hated and they were being so censored for speaking their true feelings the way they did, they were banned from every venue and had to book under the name SPOTS, which stood for Sex Pistols on Tour Secretly.
@toastybastard9559
2 жыл бұрын
Another thing that pissed me off, talkin’ about who started punk rock music. Was it Sex Pistols in England? Was it the Ramones in the Velvet Underground in New York? ‘It was the Ramones!’ ‘It was the Sex Pistols!’ Raahh! Who cares who started it?! It’s music. I don’t know who started it and I don’t give a fuck. The one thing I do know is that we did it harder, we did it faster, and we definitely did it with more love, baby. You can’t take that away from us - Stevo SLC PUNK
@donnawicks6899
2 жыл бұрын
You should really listen to the Dead Kennedys
@anthonyinglis4078
3 ай бұрын
In the mid 70's the UK was in serious decline, constant strikes, the rubbish wasn't collected for weeks, you couldn't even bury the dead. After the Ramones played London, The Sex Pistols arrived on the scene and punk in the UK was born. Quickly followed by numerous other bands, the pistols became public enemy No1 and were often attacked in public and banned from play in many towns and cities because of their anti-establishment stance. 1977 was also the year the Queen celebrated her Silver Jubilee of taking the throne, it was a shock to society that that God save the Queen could sell so many records and actually become No1 in the Jubilee week. Some charts left the No1 slot empty that week, others promoted Rod Stewart to No1. In an effort to get away from the controversy and actually play gigs, their manager took them off to tour the USA. By this time, the band was already wracked with tension and the American tour proved to much and the band literally fell apart on stage at each gig culminating in the last show where Rotten famously finished the set with the quote "ever felt you've been cheated" The tension in the band between guitarst Steve Jones & Rotten was ever present and not aided by the management decisions of Malcolm McLaren. They have reformed twice for worldwide tours, but although the old tensions were still there, the tours were completed. In the process, they have become their own tribute band. As a 16 year old kid at the time, it formed my thoughts, and till this day I consider myself an anti-establishment punk rocker. The UK economy played a big part in the movement happening, there was nothing to do, nowhere to go and everything was falling apart at the seams. The UK in 2024 is in a very similar situation, will we see a new movement rise from the political chaos. I hope so.
@jgsrhythm100
2 жыл бұрын
Punk was an evolution like any other genre. The Stooges in the late 60's to Punk is like Black Sabbath to metal, The Ramones in the States came before The Pistols.
@wvpunchdrunk1
2 жыл бұрын
Everytime I see johnny rotten from this time period it makes me think of Scott Farkas from A Christmas Story.
@joyparry9354
2 жыл бұрын
I love this - I was 16 when it came out & I just loved the energy & originality of the song .... before becoming a Goth fan in the '80s. At the time, I just loved that the song was banned by the BBC - that it was such an iconic song of the times 😃
@hannahstevenson27
2 жыл бұрын
Fun fact about the band. The (second) bassist couldn’t even play bass before he joined the band. Also the vocalist is actually an incredibly intelligent guy (despite his image).
@bobhoward790
2 жыл бұрын
Lemmy tried to teach Sid to play bass and quit because Sid was hopeless :-P
@anntelford8647
2 жыл бұрын
He couldn't play bass after he joined the band, either. Steve Jones, lead guitar, played Sid's bass parts.
@hannahstevenson27
2 жыл бұрын
@@anntelford8647 Really?. I didn’t know that. Damn. I’m sure watching the jubilee concert on the boat there was shots of him playing. Or at the very least, him playing strings on the bass 😂
@hannahstevenson27
2 жыл бұрын
@@bobhoward790 That’s actually hilarious.
@anntelford8647
2 жыл бұрын
@@hannahstevenson27 Sid had a quintessential punk look, not musicianship. He plucked at the bass live, but the lead guitar and singing were loud enough to drown out any accidental bass sounds. The jack was likely not plugged into an amp. The Fender Sid Vicious Bass has no output jack.
@bobbyboko6317
2 жыл бұрын
Never mind the Bollocks one of the best albums of all time , British punk was the real punk
@pavik80
2 жыл бұрын
By far two coolest dudes on yt, and my favorite reaction channel. May I suggest Poppy with songs EAT or say cheese. She rocks!
@Hollywood6IX
2 жыл бұрын
🙏🙏🙏
@gillanarcoleo3192
2 жыл бұрын
Yeah England was crazy back then I got to hang out with them mostly with Sid he dated my friend before Nancy. Got to see Sid play with siouxsie Sioux. Sex Pistols were a crazy band to watch loved growing up in England at that time
@satanlaffing
2 жыл бұрын
THE RAMONES actually "started" punk in NYC back @ '73 - '74. They brought it over to the UK where it really took off. PISTOLS were only around for 26 months from nov./dec. '75 to jan. '78 & only released 1 album.
@inkyoctopussy
2 жыл бұрын
No, Death did
@xSergioRottenx
2 жыл бұрын
@@inkyoctopussy Death is a proto punk band, not punk. Ramones started it all.
@christopherpasco864
2 жыл бұрын
Thank you for this. Great way to start the day. Now go check out The Exploited, Circle Jerks, The Cramps, Minor Threat, Life Sentence. There is a whole world of great punk music out there.
@simonrobinson10
2 жыл бұрын
Discharge! Stoke on Trents finest, still playing today Metallica credit them as an influence
@markrankin1094
2 жыл бұрын
Or even Stiff Little Fingers.
@simonrobinson10
2 жыл бұрын
@@markrankin1094 yeeeasssssssss My punk band supported them once! Epic!
@markrankin1094
2 жыл бұрын
@@simonrobinson10 Was lucky enough to see them live in Leeds a few years ago. They've lost nothing. Great set. All the energy, huuuuge talent.
@simonrobinson10
2 жыл бұрын
@@markrankin1094 we were lucky enough to play Holidays In The Sun in Newcastle and Morecombe before it became Rebellion in Blackpool, played with some ace bands and met some great people I watched SLF and The Business with Stuart Pearce, he was great company! My first gig with my first band (in 1991...was 17) was supporting GBH at Stoke Wheatsheaf - was an amazing experience UK Subs, 999, Peter & The Test Tube Babies, MDM and many more were regulars to the Stoke scene
@sm_4859
2 жыл бұрын
Pistols were one of the essentials of punk but i wouldnt call them the orignators
@randywissler9923
2 жыл бұрын
They are triple OG for sure though!!
@Danarchistic1
2 жыл бұрын
Definitely not. They did put punk in the mainstream though
@anntelford8647
2 жыл бұрын
From Detroit, MC5 and The Stooges. From NYC, The Ramones, Velvet Underground, The Talking Heads. From London, The Clash, The Slits, The Damned. The 70s was a time of great displeasure with politics, economic, and social issues. These bands evoked verbal and visual discontent with the status quo.
@joechurch7
2 жыл бұрын
@@anntelford8647 also from Detroit The band called Death. they were pretty heavy
@luvlgs1
2 жыл бұрын
just now reading Lydon's autobiography and he spells out the origins of punk. it was a fashion and life style movement before there were bands.
@daviddesjardins6539
2 жыл бұрын
Check out the movie "Sid and Nancy " great reaction guys. Happy memorial day
@marcharley6465
2 жыл бұрын
The band got into a lot of trouble for releasing this single, which got to number 1 in the UK chart even though it was banned by radio stations. The singer was slashed with a razor by somebody who didn't appreciate his comments about the queen. I'm English and I love my country but dislike our royal family.
@grahamsmith9541
2 жыл бұрын
It only officially got to number 2. I can't remember the full details but they had a lot of sales deducted. To keep it off the number 1 spot. It caused a lot of controversy at the time.
@sparkesman1980
2 жыл бұрын
If you listen to the lyrics the band are not disrespecting the Queen.....its the system and establishment the song is about. I watched them live in 1976 and they was superb ......mind you, Glen was with them then, no Sid......end of the band when Sid was brought in, although I don't blame him
@Dreyno
2 жыл бұрын
@@sparkesman1980 Don’t talk sh1t. They were disrespecting her and they absolutely made no bones about it. Rotten was resolutely anti-monarchy and she is the monarch. Regardless of whatever nice things he says about the old crone these days it was meant as two fingers to her and the establishment that kept in in place.
@michaelglass1911
2 жыл бұрын
@@Dreyno Old crone, you obviously have a lot of hate though it would be better directed to something positive.
@Dreyno
2 жыл бұрын
@@michaelglass1911 Few things more positive than ending monarchies.
@simontemplar3359
Жыл бұрын
During the Queen's silver jubilee, they followed the Royal flotilla on the Thames playing this. There were arrests! I think John Lydon was the heart and brains of this band. He's well worth watching in interviews. Anyway, earliest punk band? Depends who you ask. Some people go back to Iggy and the stooges or the Ramones, but it's all great. The Clash and Stiff Little Fingers are great hands for further deep dives. Cheers!
@Capnsensible80
Жыл бұрын
John was definitely the heart, but Glen Matlock actually wrote almost all their songs. I love John though, such a genuine dude and a real one, and PiL was incredible in it's own right.
@Romulus980
8 ай бұрын
A trail blazer of a song with raw energy bursting out.....!
@richey4287
2 жыл бұрын
'Holidays in the sun' - or 'Bodies' for something darker from the Pistols.
@pastorofmuppets22
2 жыл бұрын
The Sex Pistols in no way, shape or form started Punk Rock.A band called MC5 had them beat by a decade.What the Sex Pistols did do...was to make Punk accessable to a mainstream audience.They blew up as a big time act,and everyone knew who they were, regardless of whether they enjoyed Punk Rock or not.Punk was a gradual thing.A lot of acts contributed from the birth to where it went.I started off in the hippie era of the mid to late 1960's as an alternative for people who didn't feel peace, love and flowers.Also for up and coming musicians who saw people like Jimmy Page and thought to themselves:"I want to play,but I can't do that".When they discovered Punk,they said:"Hell,I can do that!".Punk encompasses everything from a hardline act like the Pistols and the Dead Kennedy's....all the way to Blondie,the Talking Heads,the Go Go's and the B52'S.There's no one distinct sound,or pattern of chords that quantifies it.There's no one look, sound, message or attitude that makes for a box you can put Punk Rock in.But to my original point,the Pistols did not invent the genre.
@danielfutcher1764
2 жыл бұрын
MC5, The Stooges - many even trace it all the way back to The Kinks
@pastorofmuppets22
2 жыл бұрын
@@danielfutcher1764 I don't mind heaping credit on the Pistols for all the things they deserve.But can't give them credit for what they don't.
@bobhoward790
2 жыл бұрын
The Wikipedia page for this video has a ton of information: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God_Save_the_Queen_(Sex_Pistols_song) The song was released in 1977 (a bit before I was born, so I only know what it was like then from talking to family) and the UK was in a shit state at the time. Mass unemployment, national strikes, power blackouts and general crappiness. Punk came up from the council estates, fuelled by anger and apathy towards society and the music and lyrics carry it.
@Raider577
2 жыл бұрын
Power blackouts were before 1977 and a mass unemployment was from around 1979 and early eighties. I should know I was around at the time.
@punksterdude8290
2 жыл бұрын
England was a shit hole in 1977. Constant strikes, rubbish lying in the streets, bodies piled up in morgues waiting to be buried, three day weeks, power cuts. Then along came these. If you were young and pissed off then they were the perfect antidote. It was a very dangerous time to be a punk in the seventies. People would attack you just because of the way you looked. I know coz it happened to me and my mates on numerous occasions but they were the best years of my life and I wouldn't swap them. Slipknot are my band now but I still love my punk as long as it's British punk. You lot over the pond never quite got it. Just my opinion. Next Pistols to try out would be Anarchy In The UK, Pretty Vacant and Bodies. You could also check out White Riot by The Clash, Oh Bondage Up Yours by X Ray Spex and New Rose by The Damned. Keep up the good work from an old Punkster over the pond.
@joechurch7
2 жыл бұрын
In 1981 we took in a British exchange student named Stan. He taught us to Pogo!!!!! We taught him American Football because he hated Soccer. He was a Punk! He wore skin tight shiny faux leather pants. Nobody in own small Oregon town had ever seen anything like that. We thought he was cool as shit. He wasn't supposed to go to any shows. He went and saw a Police concert. He wasn't supposed to buy any records. He smuggled contraband Punk rock back to Brittan in his suitcase.He had a prized US pressing. The BBC had banned the playing of this album at the time. I was listening to Led Zep, Rush and Iron Maiden so that was my introduction to punk.
@hugomontoya9029
2 жыл бұрын
Naaah, the record was never banned in UK, it never went out of print/out of production.
@robin9876
2 жыл бұрын
I was almost run over by Steve Jones in downtown L.A. & I thought: "Wow - my obituary can say I was killed by a Sex Pistol". An interesting way to go!
@mikenguyen4855
2 жыл бұрын
Anarchy in the UK
@Bazk01
2 жыл бұрын
The queen's silver jubilee was in '77. The E II R in flames stood for Elizabeth Regina the second. (in other words Queen Elizabeth the second.) It wasn't acceptable, it was banned off of the TV. People didn't really care to be honest. You got a small section at either end of the spectrum that got worked up.. The sex pistols didn't start punk, but their manager was really good at marketing.
@simply_psi
2 жыл бұрын
They weren't around long but burned very brightly from 1975 to 1978 in 1977 they released this as a single to coincide with the Queens sliver jubilee, the same year they also released their one and only studio album called Never Mind The Bollocks Here's The Sex Pistols. Other great songs include Pretty Vacany, Anarchy in The UK and Bodies, a controversial song, allegedly about a woman John Lyden met who carried her aborted foetus around with her and often dressed in plastic bags.
@brucer2152
2 жыл бұрын
You can't imagine the seismic effect that the pistols had on music.
@kokaroka69
2 жыл бұрын
The band that started PUNK ia The Stooges/Iggy Pop and The Stooges. Songs to check out: I Wanna Be Your Dog Gimme Danger My Idea of Fun No Fun Search and Destroy I’m Sick of You You want to know punk you guys gotta go back to 1970 when it started. Hope you guys check out one of the songs I suggested. Raw power!!
@simonrobinson10
2 жыл бұрын
MC5 - Kick Out The Jams....
@davidpryle3935
2 жыл бұрын
Yeah, you can argue the toss one way or the other I suppose, but you’d have to say the first real punk song was Blitzkrieg Bop by the Ramones.
@somthingbrutal
2 жыл бұрын
the letter on fire were ER II Elizabeth Regina the 2nd the footage was from celebrations for her Golden Jubilee in 1977 (the 50th anniversary of her coronation)
@nicisowter203
2 жыл бұрын
Malcolm McClaron created them as a fashion statement but they became iconic to the teens. Of course the royalists hated them, but it spread to Australia and the USA and on to other countries. Some took to the anarchy part and others tried counter with the more traditionalist ideas.
@chrischaney4592
2 жыл бұрын
There was a band before malcolm. They looked to malcolm for management.
@susanjohnston8267
2 жыл бұрын
Iggy Pop through his friendship with Bowie brought punk to the UK. It also brought Blondie. Anyway, the whole Gig on the River Thames on the Queens Silver Jubilee, had them on a hire boat surrounded by police outside the Houses of Parliament playing this song, as well as others. The soon to be but not quite rich yet mogul Richard Branson owner of Virign hired the boat, their friend and his fashion designer Vivienne Westwood was there too.
@lpmuzza3274
2 жыл бұрын
Punk paved the way for hip hop
@mattboselli1099
2 жыл бұрын
Never heard that stand of course I've heard of this band never really listened to it but always looking forward to it
@haraldtheyounger5504
Жыл бұрын
The Sex Pistols began outraging the old folks of the UK in 1976. Their gigs were banned Nationwide due to their outspoken hate of the Establishment, etc. Songs like Anarchy in the UK, Pretty Vacant, Bodies, etc were viewed by the Media and all conformists as a direct threat to their stupefied lives of moronic mediocrity. This was a time when virtually no swearing took place on TV. The Sex Pistols were interviewed on prime-time TV and swore, not just once but many times. The newspapers the next day were calling for a total ban. The Band were thrown off their first record label due to the pressure of applied by the Establishment. Next they got chucked off their second record label, as the record pressing plants wouldn't handle the single God Save The Queen. Third time lucky though, singles and Never Mind The Bollocks were released in 1977. This was a time when the likes of Abba ruled the charts, bland pop music. You should really check out Pretty Vacant and Bodies, 2 of their very best songs lyrically, along with Holiday in the Sun.
@SabineThinkerbellum
2 жыл бұрын
ER stands for Elizabeth Regina, Regina is Latin for Queen and is the current monarch's Royal Cypher. ER is sometimes displayed as E II R, meaning Elizabeth the second Regina. This is because the Queen's full title is Queen Elizabeth II end of quote
@stuartfishman1044
Жыл бұрын
At the time, Parliament debated whether or not to charge The Sex Pistols with treason. The political establishment felt threatened by them and the band was physically attacked as well as banned from playing in some places.
@Drivestort
2 жыл бұрын
The Sex Pistols were actually a manufactured band, their manager put them together, including finding Johnny Rotten in a club and grabbing him and putting him with the rest of the band because he was an obnoxious asshole and the guy figured he'd be a great front man, but they were absolutely a staple of the early punk movement, and very quickly ran to the front of it and helped popularize it. Punk was born out of poor working class kids who were disenfranchised (a lot of rock is when you think about it) and went down with anarchism, anti capitalism, anti authority, and DIY ethics. Everybody that wasn't into punk hated the punks, few genres actually name themselves, they were named that by other people.
@normandavidtidiman9918
2 жыл бұрын
Complete and utter rubbish! Urban Myth,The Pistols were NOT a manufactured band,or put together by McLaren. Cook & Jones formed the group before they had the name,and they asked McLaren (whose Shop they would steal from) to manage them. Matlock was a Saturday boy in the shop Sex that MM owned and he introduced him to Jones & Cook. Needing a frontman, Viviane Westwood suggested a 'John' who also frequented the shop,and John Lydon (renamed Rotten by Jones) was auditioned in front of the shops Jukebox miming to Alice Cooper's 'Eighteen'. It turns out she had meant another "John". John Simon Ritchie - Sid Vicious. Lydon was hired and the Pistols were complete. McLaren did not manufacture them!
@davidpryle3935
2 жыл бұрын
@@normandavidtidiman9918 Well said my man. To use the phrase “manufactured band” about the sex pistols as if they were some sort of take that or boyzone is unbelievable nonsense. Every band has to be “manufactured” to some extent, but I think anyone who uses this particular phrase about the sex pistols is being deliberately disingenuous.
@normandavidtidiman9918
2 жыл бұрын
@@davidpryle3935 Spot on 😉
@angharaddenby3389
2 жыл бұрын
Punk can be traced back to the late 1960 and the like of MC5, 13th Floor Elevators and Vanilla Fudge.
@sherbert500
2 жыл бұрын
rotten was stabbed and attacked because of this song, the band were arrested and the song was taken off of the charts, infamy and a great album was born!
@mike.f2130
2 жыл бұрын
The guy getting arrested was their manager Malcom mclaren
@kaiberberich1
11 ай бұрын
EIIR - Elizabeth II Regina (or #2 if you like) - the cypher for Queen Elizabeth the second - who was UK head of state at the time of this song (and for a long time before and after).
@mrblonde432
2 жыл бұрын
Iggy Pop with the Stooges, The Ramones, The New York Dolls, Richard Hell, The Dead Boys all were progenitors of the Sex Pistols.
@stephanieweisbart777
Жыл бұрын
Now you're talkin my language. This came out when I was a teenager and you need to understand the cultural context that all music has which I'm sure you do but at that time which feels like 100 years ago, censorship was a thing and this stuff was so controversial. That's why there is so much British law enforcement at the concert. Look at their faces. Those cops are scared shirtless. I'm 62 and I'm in my living room raising my fist to the music. I am so glad you're playing this. There are so many more punk rock bands. These guys made it onto vinyl but had you been on the scene in New York City at that time, a lot of bands just played for the sake of playing
@smokeyverton7981
2 жыл бұрын
There's also a great story about when Sid Vicious stumbled upon QUEEN in the recording studio and his interaction with Freddie Mercury
@smokeyrameriz478
2 жыл бұрын
Now I have to look that up
@dennispower5362
2 жыл бұрын
BLACK SABBATH'S..... THE SONG IS CALLED. THE WRIT✌️
@danwagner1702
2 жыл бұрын
Punk actually originated in the U.S. (NYC, Cleveland, Detroit going back to the late 60s early 70s) but caught on in England. Check out "Kick Out the Jams" by the MC5 and or "I Wanna Be Your Dog" by the Stooges(Iggy Stooge/Iggy Pop)
@arconeagain
2 жыл бұрын
The reason why you made the connection to Prodigy is because they both have a manufactured image for record sales. Sex Pistols lyrics as well. The lead singer of Prodigy was heavily modelled on purpose, he was nothing like that at all.
@Problembeing
2 жыл бұрын
There is a massive rift between The Sex Pistols and The Ramones over who was first, but The Sex Pistols seemed to have evolved out of the pub rock scene, and the US punk scene from CGGBs and from Iggy Pop and The Stooges. Punk came about AFTER the advent of industrial music from the early 70s, which was even more punk than punk, with the band Throbbing Gristle. Check them out. They pretty much invented sampling, looping, and pioneered industrial electronic ‘anti’music.
@Ingens_Scherz
Жыл бұрын
They were the first to be called "punks" by the UK media, which John Lydon hated (of course). He also hated how Malcolm Maclaren played up to it. He also hated everything else in the entire world (even though - or maybe because - he's actually a really nice guy: who knew!) so this might not signify much. Point is, The Sex Pistols took their cues from Rock and Roll, like every other great band, but John Lydon wrote the songs and he took his cues from his anger - which was, of course, his energy. The Ramones, looking at it retrospectively, "originated" punk a few years before, but The Who were threatening to kick heads in back in the mid-60s, so the anger's always been there. Only a very select few can harness it. Kurt Cobain RIP might have been another one, among other angry geniuses.
@edwright480
2 жыл бұрын
He is singing 'no future, no future for me'. It was during Thatcher years, when many people lost their jobs. listen to Never Mind the Bollocks.
@davidpryle3935
2 жыл бұрын
It was two years before Thatcher was elected.
@LeftyConspirator
2 жыл бұрын
The flaming letters those guys carried read "E II R", which is a royal cypher that refers to Elizabeth II Regina - Queen Elizabeth II in common parlance.
@davidhuggan6315
Жыл бұрын
the word "Rage" at the start is the Australian music show
@jameskirk4694
4 ай бұрын
A band called Death from Detroit originated punk for the whole world to see.
@themoo7803
2 жыл бұрын
Stepping Stone Live at Brixton - enjoy! Whole concert is a blast
@alpine1600s
Жыл бұрын
Didn't see any comments, but the flaming letters 6:44 were "ERII" for Elizabeth Regina the Second.
@carlvanderbush664
2 жыл бұрын
"God Save The Queen" is England's national anthem -- not the Sex Pistols' version, obviously. It has the same melody as the American patriotic song "My Country 'Tis of Thee". The Sex Pistols' song was written in 1977, the year England celebrated Queen Elizabeth II's Silver Jubilee - 25 years on the throne. The burning letters E R II in the video are the queen's monogram, E standing for Elizabeth, II are the Roman numerals signifying she was the 2nd Queen Elizabeth, and R stands for Regina, Latin for queen.
@marsupial9
Жыл бұрын
This song points out the extravagant lifestyle of the queen and the royal family (who are basically just figureheads who do absolutely nothing to help the people) while the rest of the UK struggles just to scrape by
@denisemangan1413
Жыл бұрын
My brother-in-law as a teenager bought the the album & when his father saw the title, his father said your winding me up, your trying to make me angry. All because of the title of the album ‘ Never mind the bollocks’. Bollocks was considered offensive, a swear word. My brother-in-law was shocked. He just liked the music.🇦🇺
@josephferreira4917
2 жыл бұрын
They just dropped another best of album this weekend !
@alanm2809
Жыл бұрын
Check out I'm Stranded by the Saints from 1976 for even earlier proto Punk from Australia, and yes the Pistols suffered for this, their label EMI dropped them and they were arrested by the Police who stormed the barge they were playing on and Radio refused to play it even though it was the highest selling single at the time
@brunodf80
Жыл бұрын
Thanks for giving voice for us. I Strongly recommend a sincere reaction from you to NHL
@uncle_thulhu
2 жыл бұрын
Rage: in Australia, on Friday and Saturday nights, on the public broadcaster tv station, ABC, from about 11pm to 8am, non-stop music videos. Saturday nights usually guest programmed by a musician of the time. This was called Rage, and it was the best thing to ever happen to Aussie TV. I don't really watch telly these days. I hope it's still running.
@zenithoclock1048
2 жыл бұрын
God Save The Queen was released in 1977, which was also the Silver Jubilee of queen Elizabeth's Reign (25 years as Queen) so it's release was very controversial. The song was banned by the BBC as there was a 'national uproar' protesting against the song, now it's part of the fabric of Britain, like Fish and Chips, and John Lydon (the lead singer and lyric writer for the band) is a folk hero.
@davidstanton4716
2 жыл бұрын
The fire lit letters were ER Elizabeth Regina. It's the Queen.
@troglokev
6 ай бұрын
E II R. There’s a roman numeral II in the middle of the insignia.
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