Quote of the Week (on the Sex Pistols)
February 26, 2006, 8:50 pm |
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By Andrew L. Jaffee
The Sex Pistols, true to their spit-in-your-eye, “God-save-the-Queen-the-fascist-regime” style, have announced they will boycott their own induction into Cleveland’s Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Of course, these worn-out punkers, whose own Sid Vicious OD’ed in 1979, made a completely hypocritical public statement (as if they were never in it for the money):
We’re not your monkeys, we’re not coming. You’re not paying attention.
Let’s get historically accurate here: Genius Malcolm McClaren concocted the talentless Pistols out of nothing… to make money — which I have no problem with. Just be honest about it, please.
But Susan Evans, executive director of the Hall, gave the most level-headed response to nonsense I’ve heard in awhile:
They are being the outrageous punksters they are, and that’s rock ‘n’ roll.
Yeaahhhh, baby. That’s it!
The Pistols are full of it. Singer Johnny Rotten profited from their brief spotlight (via PIL) for years. And the band certainly didn’t shy away from capitalizing on the geriatric, $200/ticket rocker revival of the 90’s:
They reformed for a tour in 1996, and came back in 2002 to re-release God Save The Queen to coincide with the Golden Jubilee.
Still rocking, and still hypocrites…
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