Few names in pop music inspire the kind of polarizing, passionate responses as John Lydon’s. He kicked his way into the public consciousness with the Sex Pistols in the ’70s: He was featured in the British tabloids as frequently as members of the royal family, angry protesters hung on his every [...]
Posts Tagged ‘the Sex Pistols’
April 26th, 2010 - 4:32 pm § in True/Slant
Roger Ebert and The Sex Pistols in… a failed screenplay
Late Sunday night, famed Chicago Sun-Times movie critic Roger Ebert posted one long article. Actually, it wasn’t so much an article as it was a screenplay. Ebert opened his vault and unloaded part of the script he wrote for a Sex Pistols-focused movie. Originally titled “Anarchy in the [...]
April 8th, 2010 - 2:46 pm § in True/Slant
R.I.P. Malcolm McLaren
The BBC is reporting that Sex Pistols’ svengali and artist-musician Malcolm McLaren has died: Malcolm McLaren, the former manager of punk group the Sex Pistols, has died in New York, aged 64, his agent has said. There have been a lot of famous pop music managers over the years, but none like M[...]
June 1st, 2009 - 12:16 am § in Perfect Lines
Guitar Hero 5: Emo Edition
Guitar Hero, the popular musical-video game phenomenon is coming out with its fifth volume. And it might as well be called the “Emo Edition.” Or the Indie Edition… One fits with the other. While the new version of Guitar Hero (GH5) if you will, has the regular mainstream-rock fare,[...]
October 7th, 2008 - 7:50 pm § in Perfect Lines
Opera, Rotten Butter, and Words
*The Onion had a great “archival” issue online, which featured this hilariously-poignant piece on the “dangerous” lyrics of an opera performance: The Onion always has a great way of not only poking fun of society but media as well; I would be cramming the point down the provi[...]