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“I agree with him” adds Matlock, “but he should have realised that back then.” The 76/77 collection charts the development of the band giving some context to the amount of work that was put into creating one of the most important albums of the 20th century. Guitarist Steve Jones has since admitted some regrets about the band's brief time in the spotlight, suggesting had it not been for the infamous expletive-laden chat on the Today show with Bill Grundy, and Matlock leaving the band, they would have probably stayed together longer. “I wrote Pretty Vacant and he changed a couple of lines in the second verse, I never got to hear the finished version until it came out.” After God Save The Queen came another Matlock-penned song. The Sex Pistols would split less than a year after Matlock’s exit but not before they built an unforgettable head of steam. He would die from a drug overdose within two years of joining the band. While Vicious looked the part, along the way becoming the ultimate punk icon, he was a neglected and damaged figure unable to cope with fame. Matlock was replaced with Sid Vicious, a friend of Rotten and “the biggest fan they ever had”. Maybe it was naive on my part but that’s what was going on.” I’d say: ‘a promoter has just offered to put us on at the 100 Club and he’d say ‘No’. “We were told we weren’t allowed to play anywhere and then I’d go out and see someone like the Ramones, a promoter would tap me on the shoulder and say: ‘Do you want to come and play?’ I’d tell Malcolm and he’d say: ‘No you're banned’.
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The whole reason you’re in a band is that you don’t want people telling you what to do all the time otherwise you’re better off just getting a fucking job that was in my head and the way we were being perceived I just didn’t think it was honest. “I’d had enough of it because I didn’t feel I was getting backed by Steve and Paul. ” After touring with the band between the end of 1975 to February ’77, Matlock would leave due to tensions with Lydon and manager Malcolm McLaren. When I’ve played Pistols songs with different drummers they want to bash through it, I say: ‘Listen to the record’. He’s not a jam-type drummer, he plays the part the same every time. “The only one that didn’t write was Paul but what people miss about Paul’s drumming is that his parts are quite catchy with little hooks, when you think of what he’s playing on God Save The Queen and Anarchy. John came up with lyrics but we were all putting ideas in. When we were recording Anarchy at a previous session I was driving everyone mad with it on the piano. No Future, which became God Save The Queen, was my riff. “I got chatting to Roy Wood in my local once, I said to him that Fire Brigade was not unlike the Pistols, he said: ‘I had noticed’. The Move would also be cited as having a notable impact on the band’s next single God Save The Queen. I liked classic British song-writing The Kinks, The Who, Small Faces and I liked Motown.” “When I auditioned, the Faces were Steve and Paul’s favourite band I played Three Button Hand Me Down and that got me the gig! Ronnie Lane was an influence I learned bass from playing along to those records, also Trevor Bolder in Bowie’s Spiders (From Mars). Lydon’s political anger, combined with Matlock’s penchant for catchy rock'n’roll songs, would become the band’s musical axis. With a mother from Cork (Eileen Barry) and a father, also John, from Galway,he was acutely aware of the conflict in the North, referring to the IRA and UDA on Anarchy. Lydon based part of his DIY image around “poverty” explaining safety pins were used to “stop the arse in your trousers falling out”. The original line-up of Glen Matlock, John Lydon (Johnny Rotten), Steve Jones and Paul Cook had formed in 1975 in London. He had a lot of ideas and one of them was Anarchy.” He said ‘That’s pretty good what happens next?' So I played him the next bit while John got together something from this bag of lyrics. “He said: ‘What have you got?’ I had a few ideas up my sleeve and started to play the descending riff that would become Anarchy. “I had a go at Steve for not coming up with anything,” recalls Matlock.