![]() Listen to the live bootlegs which have come out over the years and you'll hear a lot of it is certainly accomplished. We could set up a steady groove and keep blasting away all night as hard as life. That was an idea that Malcolm pushed hard after I left, trumpeting away with it in The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle, and telling anyone who'd listen that he was the real Sex Pistol and he couldn't play-so therefore being able to play was quite irrelevant. ![]() In this exclusive extract from the book Matlock unsurprisingly opts to defend his position in the first of the two camps, discussing his work as a songwriter for one of British music's most iconic bands and their lesser-known relationship to a certain Swedish quartet.Ī lot of people, then and now, have said we couldn't play. Then, of course, there's the real debate - the one about Matlock him self - whether the former bassist was the real creative force behind the Sex Pistols or, as Steve Jones put it, 'a middle-class mommy's boy'. The reissuing of Glen Matlock's autobiography I Was A Teenage Sex Pistol is likely to be divisive in more than one way: certainly, for one, those booksellers on Amazon hawking barely-passable secondhand copies of the original publication for upwards of £40 and pristine volumes for £350-odd are going to find themselves a little red faced while music fans without "collector money" rub their hands together.
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