You may have thought that The Sex Pistols were a tired old reanimated corpse of a band; reality TV veterans who keep reforming in more and more useless ways to convince the world that they’re still cool.
But The Sex Pistols still know how to stick it to the man! The cheeky rebels have decided that they don’t want to be inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame next month. How did they do this? They wrote a nasty letter, that’s how. Woo! Punk’s not dead, kids!
The Sex Pistols (CDs) and the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame have something of
a chequered history. In the past, The Sex Pistols have been rejected
for entry on four separate occasions – possibly because Johnny Rotten
kept calling it "The Rock And Roll Hall Of Shame," and labelling it, "a
place where old rockers go to die."
But that hasn’t stopped The Sex Pistols being announced as among the batch
of artists to be inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame in March, along with
Black Sabbath, Blondie and Lynrd Skynyrd. But The Sex Pistols
apparently want nothing of it. A handwritten letter has been posted on
the band’s website saying:
Next to the SEX-PISTOLS rock and roll and
that hall of fame is a piss stain. Your museum. Urine in wine. Were not
coming. Were not your monkeys and so what? Fame at $25,000 if we paid
for a table or $15000 to squeak up in the gallery, goes to a non profit
organisation selling us a load of old famous. Congradulations. If you
voted for us, hope you noted your reasons. Your anonymous as judges but
your still music industry people. Were not coming. Your not paying
attention. Outside this shit-stem is a real SEX PISTOL.
Lucky it’s
not the Basic Grammatical Skills Hall Of Fame. Anyway, the Rock
And Roll Hall Of Fame organisers seem perversely delighted at the
put-down. Susan Evans, the executive director, said:
"They are being the outrageous punksters that they are, and that’s rock and roll."
You hear that, kids? Writing letters of complaint is the new rock and roll. And soon, if the crotchety behaviour of the ageing Sex Pistols is anything to go by, moaning at how young policemen are these days and being appalled by all the bad language on TV will soon the new rock and roll, too.
Read more:
Sex Pistols snub US Hall of Fame – BBC
[story by Stuart Heritage]
Steve says
So what!