Sex Pistols - Nationwide 1976

November 11, 1976 Nationwide TV show recorded: at BBC studios, London.
November 12, 1976 Nationwide TV show broadcast: Sex Pistols performing Anarchy In The UK, with Johnny Rotten and Malcolm McLaren interview. Sid Vicious (not a Pistol member yet), Catwoman and Siouxsie can be seen. Includes Giovanni Dadomo from Sounds magazine.
At 1:50 - 2:08 is a rare view of two Sex Pistol bass players, Glen Matlock singing harmony as Sid Vicious in sunglasses stands watching Matlock from behind. Sid will replace Glen approximately two months after the Nationwide television performance.

Guy: "PUNK! Well, it may not be the greatest rock and roll in the world but it's certainly the most controversial. One London newspaper called them the most aggressive, nasty band ever, they're the Sex Pistols and they're led by Johnny Rotten. And they've already been barred from most of the leading London Clubs, both because of their music and because of the violence they bring with them. And yet this group are leaders of a whole new teenage cult that seems to be on the way to being as big as Mods and Rockers were in the Sixties."

Girl: "The cult is called Punk. The music Punk Rock. Basic rock music, raw, outrageous and crude. Like their foul fan magazine (sniff) Sniffing Glue, which is produced and stapled together by two young Punks from Deptford."

Guy: "Punks have multi-coloured hair, vampire make-up, ripped t-shirts held together with safety pins, swastika arm bands, pink plastic trousers and tight leather jeans. You can't buy this sort of gear in Marks and Sparks, so you have to go to shops like Sex in the Kings Road."

Girl: "Finding places to play is becoming harder, thanks to the reputation punks are getting as trouble-makers. The 100 Club in Oxford Street banned all punk groups after an incident at a punk gig where a girl was nearly blinded by a broken bottle."

Guy: "And at the I.C.A. two weeks ago a boy (Shane of the Pogues) had his ear lobe bitten off by his girlfriend, driven to frenzy by a punk group appropriately called 'Clash'."

Girl: "And the Sex Pistols themselves even had to hire a strip club to get themselves heard. No one else would take them...

"What about the word 'Punk'? It means worthless, nasty. Johnny Rotten, are you happy with this word?"

Johnny Rotten: "No the press gave us it. It's their problem not ours. We never called ourselves Punk."

Girl: "Which bands do you think are old hat now? Are you against the Stones and the Who, sounds like that?"

Johnny Rotten: "Yes, of course, because they're established.....they just do not mean anything to anyone"

Girl: "With us also is Giovanni Dadamo. Now I know you're very worried by the Sex Pistols. Why?"

Giovanni Dadamo: "Well, not very worried, but there are aspects of what they do or what they provoke that worry me. You know, I think that if you go all out to provoke people like they've done, people react, right? Now it's all very well for Malcolm to say it's good for bottles to fly through the air or mugs, but if they hit you in the head or if they hit Johnny in the head..."

Girl: "You've heard them, they're angry and they're frustrated. Now do you think their music's worthwhile?"

Giovanni Dadamo: "Em, I've enjoyed it at times, there's times when it strikes me as being a bit derivative. I mean the great danger with the Pistols is that they can be boring, you know their attitude can be boring. It can become boring. I mean it's not, like I say... just destruction for its own sake, is... is dull ultimately. You know it doesn't offer any hope, it doesn't really wanna change things, it's just saying, 'you know, we don't like this, we, we're different, look at us'. You know, that's just attracting attention to yourself. I think it should be constructive revolution if there's gonna be revolution, only like -"

Johnny Rotten: "You mean established...."

Malcolm McClaren: "You have to destroy in order to create, you know that."

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