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** May even be "What Actually Happened, But Nobody Seems to Know": Johnny Rotten, in an interview with Rolling Stone, once mentioned that in the EMI studio where ''Never Mind the Bollocks'' was being recorded, in the next studio space Creator/{{Queen}} were recording, and the band actually invited Johnny to sing backing vocals on one track. He doesn't reveal which song or whether it actually came off in the interview, though he does recount the freedom that Queen was given in recording (specifically that Creator/FreddieMercury was allowed numerous takes and their engineer could splice together the best of them to cover flubs) whereas the Pistols were pretty much "one-and-done" and his envy at the latitude {{Queen}} could command.

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** May even be "What Actually Happened, But Nobody Seems to Know": Johnny Rotten, in an interview with Rolling Stone, once mentioned that in the EMI studio where ''Never Mind the Bollocks'' was being recorded, in the next studio space Creator/{{Queen}} Music/{{Queen}} were recording, and the band actually invited Johnny to sing backing vocals on one track. He doesn't reveal which song or whether it actually came off in the interview, though he does recount the freedom that Queen was given in recording (specifically that Creator/FreddieMercury Music/FreddieMercury was allowed numerous takes and their engineer could splice together the best of them to cover flubs) whereas the Pistols were pretty much "one-and-done" and his envy at the latitude {{Queen}} could command.
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** May even be "What Actually Happened, But Nobody Seems to Know": Johnny Rotten, in an interview with Rolling Stone, once mentioned that in the EMI studio where ''Never Mind the Bollocks'' was being recorded, in the next studio space Creator/{{Queen}} were recording, and the band actually invited Johnny to sing backing vocals on one track. He doesn't reveal which song or whether it actually came off in the interview, though he does recount the freedom that Queen was given in recording (specifically that Creator/FreddieMercury was allowed numerous takes and their engineer could splice together the best of them to cover flubs) whereas the Pistols were pretty much "one-and-done" and his envy at the latitude {{Queen}} could command.
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* BannedInChina: Downplayed. While their music was never banned, the band itself was banned from almost every concert site in Britain, forcing them to tour under the name of The Spots (Short for "Sex Pistols On Tour".)

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* BannedInChina: Downplayed. While their music was never banned, the band itself was banned from almost every concert site in Britain, forcing them to tour under the name of The Spots (Short for "Sex Pistols On Tour".Tour Secretly".)
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* ChannelHop: A rather infamous case in that they were dropped by both Creator/{{EMI}} and Creator/AAndMRecords after only releasing ''one single'' on each label. They were eventually picked up by Creator/VirginRecords, who unlike EMI and A&M had enough faith in the band to release their one and only studio album, their soundtrack to ''The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle'', and their live albums, ''and'' both release Music/SidVicious' posthumous album and carry on the career of [[Music/PublicImageLtd Johnny's next band]].

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* ChannelHop: A rather infamous case in that they were dropped by both Creator/{{EMI}} and Creator/AAndMRecords after only releasing ''one single'' on each label. They were eventually picked up by Creator/VirginRecords, who unlike EMI and A&M had enough faith in the band to release [[Music/NeverMindTheBollocksHeresTheSexPistols their one and only studio album, album]], their soundtrack to ''The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle'', and their live albums, ''and'' both release Music/SidVicious' [[Music/SidSings posthumous album album]] and carry on the career of [[Music/PublicImageLtd Johnny's next band]].
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* ChannelHop: A rather infamous case in that they were dropped by both Creator/{{EMI}} and Creator/AAndMRecords after only releasing ''one single'' on each label. They were eventually picked up by Creator/VirginRecords, who unlike EMI and A&M had enough faith in the band to release a studio album by them and carry on the career of [[Music/PublicImageLtd Johnny's next band]].

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* ChannelHop: A rather infamous case in that they were dropped by both Creator/{{EMI}} and Creator/AAndMRecords after only releasing ''one single'' on each label. They were eventually picked up by Creator/VirginRecords, who unlike EMI and A&M had enough faith in the band to release a their one and only studio album, their soundtrack to ''The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle'', and their live albums, ''and'' both release Music/SidVicious' posthumous album by them and carry on the career of [[Music/PublicImageLtd Johnny's next band]].
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* ChannelHop: A rather infamous case in that they were dropped by both Creator/{{EMI}} and Creator/AAndMRecords after only releasing ''one single'' on each label. They were eventually picked up by Creator/VirginRecords, who unlike EMI and A&M had enough faith in the band to release a studio album by them and carry on the career of [[Music/PublicImageLtd Johnny's next band]].
* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: The original EMI and A&M releases of "Anarchy in the UK" and "God Save the Queen", respectively, are notoriously hard to come by thanks to the fact that the Sex Pistols were dropped form these labels after only releasing those singles, which went out of print in a heartbeat as a result. The A&M pressing of "God Save the Queen" in particular made headlines for having one copy sell upwards of £13,000 at an auction in 2006.
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* BannedInChina: Downplayed. While their music was never banned, the band itself was banned from almost every concert site in Britain, forcing them to tour under the name of The Spots (Short for "Sex Pistols On Tour".)

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* NamesTheSame: Sid Vicious has one with the wrestler Sid Vicious (real name Wrestling/SidEudy) who was later a world heavyweight champion in Wrestling/{{WWE}} and Wrestling/{{WCW}}. Technically the guy went by "Sycho Sid" in WWE, but the last name got used on occasion there anyhow. Rock journalist John Tobler, during his near-hour-long BBC Radio 1 interview with Johnny and Sid shortly after the release of ''Never Mind The Bollocks'' (which can be heard on the interview compilation album More Product) told the band that a while prior he had read in the NME about an East End band called Shadbolt who had a guitarist reportedly named Sid Vicious, although Johnny told him not to go on and said where the name actually came from; "Syd Barrett of Pink Floyd fame...remember?".

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Sid Vicious has one with the wrestler Sid Vicious (real name Wrestling/SidEudy) who was later a world heavyweight champion in Wrestling/{{WWE}} and Wrestling/{{WCW}}. Technically the guy went by "Sycho Sid" in WWE, but the last name got used on occasion there anyhow.
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Rock journalist John Tobler, during his near-hour-long BBC Radio 1 interview with Johnny and Sid shortly after the release of ''Never Mind The the Bollocks'' (which can be heard on the interview compilation album More Product) ''More Product'') told the band that a while prior he had read in the NME ''NME'' about an East End band called Shadbolt who had a guitarist reportedly also named Sid Vicious, although Johnny told him not to go on and said where the name actually came from; "Syd Barrett of Pink Floyd fame...remember?".



* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: "Holidays in the Sun," due to the demolition of [[UsefulNotes/BerlinWall The Berlin Wall]] on November 9, 1989.

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* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: "Holidays in the Sun," due to the demolition of [[UsefulNotes/BerlinWall The Berlin Wall]] the UsefulNotes/BerlinWall on November 9, 1989.
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* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: "Holidays in the Sun," due to the demolition of [[UsefulNotes/BerlinWall The Berlin Wall]] on November 9, 1989.
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* NamesTheSame: Sid Vicious has one with the wrestler Sid Vicious (real name Wrestling/SidEudy) who was later a world heavyweight champion in Wrestling/{{WWE}} and Wrestling/{{WCW}}. Technically the guy went by "Sycho Sid" in WWE, but the last name got used on occasion there anyhow.

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* NamesTheSame: Sid Vicious has one with the wrestler Sid Vicious (real name Wrestling/SidEudy) who was later a world heavyweight champion in Wrestling/{{WWE}} and Wrestling/{{WCW}}. Technically the guy went by "Sycho Sid" in WWE, but the last name got used on occasion there anyhow. Rock journalist John Tobler, during his near-hour-long BBC Radio 1 interview with Johnny and Sid shortly after the release of ''Never Mind The Bollocks'' (which can be heard on the interview compilation album More Product) told the band that a while prior he had read in the NME about an East End band called Shadbolt who had a guitarist reportedly named Sid Vicious, although Johnny told him not to go on and said where the name actually came from; "Syd Barrett of Pink Floyd fame...remember?".

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* OneBookAuthor: The band only released one studio album, ''Music/NeverMindTheBollocksHeresTheSexPistols''.


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** It's been suggested that the band could have lasted longer if they got rid of Malcolm [=McClaren=].
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* OldShame: Johnny really thinks "Belsen Was A Gas" was too tasteless and a cheap attempt at shock value.
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* OneOfUs: Embodied in this quote:
-->'''Music/JohnLydon on ''[[VideoGame/GuitarHero Guitar Hero III]]'':''' I like it, that's what I say. I bloody well like it, and I normally don't. Well, I like a lot of video games, but this one I really like!
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** Before John Lydon joined the band, they first asked Midge Ure (later of Music/{{Ultravox}}) to be their singer. He declined, but he would perform in another short-lived band called Rich Kids with Glen Matlock.
** Matlock revealed, that when Pistols reunited in 1996, he, Steve Jones and Paul Cook wanted to write and record a new album. Lydon, however, was against the idea.
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** The band almost starred in Creator/RussMeyer's ''Who Killed Bambi'' (formerly known as ''Anarchy in the UK''), which he would have co-written with Creator/RogerEbert. Sadly, the film was abandoned. In 2013, Ebert posted his script, and recollections of the film, [[https://web.archive.org/web/20130210213803/http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/2010/04/who_killed_bambi_-_a_screenpla.html on his blog]].

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** The band almost starred in Creator/RussMeyer's ''Who Killed Bambi'' (formerly known as ''Anarchy in the UK''), which he would have co-written with Creator/RogerEbert. Sadly, the film was abandoned. In 2013, Ebert posted his script, and recollections of the film, [[https://web.archive.org/web/20130210213803/http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/2010/04/who_killed_bambi_-_a_screenpla.html script [[http://www.rogerebert.com/rogers-journal/who-killed-bambi-a-screenplay on his blog]].
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** The band almost starred in Creator/RussMyers' ''Who Killed Bambi'' (formerly known as ''Anarchy in the UK''), which he would have co-written with Creator/RogerEbert. Sadly, the film was abandoned. In 2013, Ebert posted his script, and recollections of the film, [[https://web.archive.org/web/20130210213803/http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/2010/04/who_killed_bambi_-_a_screenpla.html on his blog]].

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** The band almost starred in Creator/RussMyers' Creator/RussMeyer's ''Who Killed Bambi'' (formerly known as ''Anarchy in the UK''), which he would have co-written with Creator/RogerEbert. Sadly, the film was abandoned. In 2013, Ebert posted his script, and recollections of the film, [[https://web.archive.org/web/20130210213803/http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/2010/04/who_killed_bambi_-_a_screenpla.html on his blog]].
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** The band almost starred in Creator/RussMyer's ''Who Killed Bambi'' (formerly known as ''Anarchy in the UK''), which he would have co-written with Creator/RogerEbert. Sadly, the film was abandoned. In 2013, Ebert posted the script on his blog https://web.archive.org/web/20130210213803/http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/2010/04/who_killed_bambi_-_a_screenpla.html

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** The band almost starred in Creator/RussMyer's Creator/RussMyers' ''Who Killed Bambi'' (formerly known as ''Anarchy in the UK''), which he would have co-written with Creator/RogerEbert. Sadly, the film was abandoned. In 2013, Ebert posted his script, and recollections of the script on his blog https://web.film, [[https://web.archive.org/web/20130210213803/http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/2010/04/who_killed_bambi_-_a_screenpla.htmlhtml on his blog]].
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* ShortLivedBigImpact: The Sex Pistols had a grand total of one studio album, yet they are considered the pioneers of Punk Rock.

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* ShortLivedBigImpact: The Sex Pistols had band broke up just 13 months after the release of their debut single. They only released a grand total of one studio album, yet album. Yet they are considered the ''the'' pioneers of Punk Rock.British punk rock, both musically and aesthetically.

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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: In ''England's Dreaming'', John Savage's bio of the the band, Rotten mentioned that he wrote some songs during the Pistols' American tour in order to expand their sound. He would later record them with his next project, Music/PublicImageLtd, when [=McLaren=] disapproved of the new material.

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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: WhatCouldHaveBeen:
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In ''England's Dreaming'', John Savage's bio of the the band, Rotten mentioned that he wrote some songs during the Pistols' American tour in order to expand their sound. He would later record them with his next project, Music/PublicImageLtd, when [=McLaren=] disapproved of the new material.material.
** The band almost starred in Creator/RussMyer's ''Who Killed Bambi'' (formerly known as ''Anarchy in the UK''), which he would have co-written with Creator/RogerEbert. Sadly, the film was abandoned. In 2013, Ebert posted the script on his blog https://web.archive.org/web/20130210213803/http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/2010/04/who_killed_bambi_-_a_screenpla.html
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* RealLifeWritesThePlot:
** "God Save the Queen" was written when Queen Elizabeth II celebrated her 25th Jubilee, though the band has explicitly denied that they wrote it in response to the Jubilee, instead having written it as a "working-man's song" in frustration with a royal family that they viewed as out of touch. It was their bad luck that the single just happened to be released during the Jubilee, when pro-royal and general patriotic sentiment among the class they were trying to reach was at a high point.
---> '''Paul Cook:''' It wasn't written specifically for the Queen's Jubilee. We weren't aware of it at the time. It wasn't a contrived effort to go out and shock everyone.
** "Bodies" was inspired by Johnny Rotten's encounter with a [[LoonyFan crazed fan]] (not an exaggeration: she was institutionalised) from Birmingham named Pauline, who described to him in detail the abortions she'd had.
* {{Rockumentary}}: ''The Filth and the Fury''.
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* [[OneBookAuthor One Album Band]]

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* [[OneBookAuthor One Album Band]]OneBookAuthor: The band only released one studio album, ''Music/NeverMindTheBollocksHeresTheSexPistols''.



--> '''Paul Cook''': "It wasn't written specifically for the Queen's Jubilee. We weren't aware of it at the time. It wasn't a contrived effort to go out and shock everyone."

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--> ---> '''Paul Cook''': "It Cook:''' It wasn't written specifically for the Queen's Jubilee. We weren't aware of it at the time. It wasn't a contrived effort to go out and shock everyone."



* ShortLivedBigImpact: The Music/SexPistols had a grand total of one studio album, yet they are considered the pioneers of Punk Rock.

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* RealLifeWritesThePlot:
** "God Save the Queen" was written when Queen Elizabeth II celebrated her 25th Jubilee, though the band has explicitly denied that they wrote it in response to the Jubilee, instead having written it as a "working-man's song" in frustration with a royal family that they viewed as out of touch. It was their bad luck that the single just happened to be released during the Jubilee, when pro-royal and general patriotic sentiment among the class they were trying to reach was at a high point.
--> '''Paul Cook''': "It wasn't written specifically for the Queen's Jubilee. We weren't aware of it at the time. It wasn't a contrived effort to go out and shock everyone."
** "Bodies" was inspired by Johnny Rotten's encounter with a [[LoonyFan crazed fan]] (not an exaggeration: she was institutionalised) from Birmingham named Pauline, who described to him in detail the abortions she'd had.

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--> ''"I like it, that's what I say. I bloody well like it, and I normally don't. Well, I like a lot of video games, but this one I really like!"''
-->-'''UsefulNotes/JohnLydon on [[VideoGame/GuitarHero Guitar Hero III]]'''

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--> ''"I -->'''Music/JohnLydon on ''[[VideoGame/GuitarHero Guitar Hero III]]'':''' I like it, that's what I say. I bloody well like it, and I normally don't. Well, I like a lot of video games, but this one I really like!"''
-->-'''UsefulNotes/JohnLydon on [[VideoGame/GuitarHero Guitar Hero III]]'''
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* NamesTheSame: "[[Music/SidVicious]]" (real name Wrestling/SidEudy) was later a world heavyweight champion in Wrestling/{{WWE}} and Wrestling/{{WCW}}. Technically the guy went by "Sycho Sid" in WWE, but the last name got used on occasion there anyhow.

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* NamesTheSame: "[[Music/SidVicious]]" Sid Vicious has one with the wrestler Sid Vicious (real name Wrestling/SidEudy) who was later a world heavyweight champion in Wrestling/{{WWE}} and Wrestling/{{WCW}}. Technically the guy went by "Sycho Sid" in WWE, but the last name got used on occasion there anyhow.
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* NamesTheSame: "Sid Vicious" (real name Wrestling/SidEudy) was later a world heavyweight champion in Wrestling/{{WWE}} and Wrestling/{{WCW}}. Technically the guy went by "Sycho Sid" in WWE, but the last name got used on occasion there anyhow.

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* NamesTheSame: "Sid Vicious" "[[Music/SidVicious]]" (real name Wrestling/SidEudy) was later a world heavyweight champion in Wrestling/{{WWE}} and Wrestling/{{WCW}}. Technically the guy went by "Sycho Sid" in WWE, but the last name got used on occasion there anyhow.



-->-'''Johnny on [[VideoGame/GuitarHero Guitar Hero III]]'''
* PromotedFanboy: Sid Vicious began as a fan of the band before becoming their bassist.
* ShortLivedBigImpact: The Sex Pistols had a grand total of one studio album, yet they are considered the pioneers of Punk Rock.

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-->-'''Johnny -->-'''UsefulNotes/JohnLydon on [[VideoGame/GuitarHero Guitar Hero III]]'''
* PromotedFanboy: Sid Vicious Music/SidVicious began as a fan of the band before becoming their bassist.
* ShortLivedBigImpact: The Sex Pistols Music/SexPistols had a grand total of one studio album, yet they are considered the pioneers of Punk Rock.
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* PromotedFanboy: Sid Vicious began as a fan of the band before becoming their bassist.
* ShortLivedBigImpact: The Sex Pistols had a grand total of one studio album, yet they are considered the pioneers of Punk Rock.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: In ''England's Dreaming'', John Savage's bio of the the band, Rotten mentioned that he wrote some songs during the Pistols' American tour in order to expand their sound. He would later record them with his next project, Music/PublicImageLtd, when [=McLaren=] disapproved of the new material.

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* NamesTheSame: "Sid Vicious" (real name Wrestling/SidEudy) was later a world heavyweight champion in Wrestling/{{WWE}} and Wrestling/{{WCW}}. Technically the guy went by "Sycho Sid" in WWE, but the last name got used on occasion there anyhow

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* NamesTheSame: "Sid Vicious" (real name Wrestling/SidEudy) was later a world heavyweight champion in Wrestling/{{WWE}} and Wrestling/{{WCW}}. Technically the guy went by "Sycho Sid" in WWE, but the last name got used on occasion there anyhowanyhow.
* OneOfUs: Embodied in this quote:
--> ''"I like it, that's what I say. I bloody well like it, and I normally don't. Well, I like a lot of video games, but this one I really like!"''
-->-'''Johnny on [[VideoGame/GuitarHero Guitar Hero III]]'''
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* NamesTheSame: "Sid Vicious" (real name Wrestling/SidEudy) was later a world heavyweight champion in Wrestling/{{WWE}} and Wrestling/{{WCW}}. Technically the guy went by "Sycho Sid" in WWE, but the last name got used on occasion there anyhow

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