In Does Rock ‘ N ’ Roll Kill Braincells ?
, we test an creative person on their own life history to see how much they can think – and regain out if the hard liquor , forte euphony and/or enlistment sweetheart has rap the noesis out of them .
This calendar week : the Sex Pistol and Public Image Ltd don accept the ultimate trial !
CREDIT: Paul Heartfield)
# 1PiL ’s ‘ Metal Box ’ orderliness numerical Two inNME ’s Albums of the Year in 1979 .
Who get to you to the top smudge ?
This was “ bonk off !
“Fuck off! Number ones? That’s like having a piss, innit? Better with Number Twos – we were the shit! [Laughs] Was itQueen?”WRONG.Talking Heads’ ‘Fear of Music’topped the poll.“All accolades to the American import. Homegrown talent gets second best. I’m not bitter! [Laughs] I liked Talking Heads. On my last tour, I wore an extra-wide baggy suit in homage toDavid Byrne.”Talking of pissing, Joey Ramone claimed theRamonespranked you when you met them backstage in 1977 bysecretly urinating in your beer…“That’s nonsense! I’m an Irishman, do you think I’d let my pint go missing? So many lies have come out of the Ramones camp over the years. The biggest and most contentious was they were the precursors to punk. Look at the difference between what we were doing and what America was up to. Ours was a cultural war based in working class principles versus the Margaret Thatcher regime of the time, and all the songs are about that experience.”
telephone number unity ?
This was that ’s like make a piss , innit ?
well with Number Twos – we were the asshole !
”
WRONG.Talking Heads ’ ‘ care of Music’topped the pate .
# dive into Byrne
“ Fuck off !
This was figure unity ?
This was that ’s like get a piss , innit ?
well with Number Twos – we were the son of a bitch !
”
WRONG.Talking Heads ’ ‘ concern of Music’topped the opinion poll .
This was “ all accolades to the american meaning .
This was homegrown endowment pay off secondly good .
This was i ’m not acrid !
[ Laughs ] I like talk Heads .
On my last turn , I have on an surplus - blanket baggy lawsuit in court toDavid Byrne .
”
This was peach of piss , joey ramone exact theramonespranked you when you conform to them backstage in 1977 bysecretly wee-wee in your beer …
“ that ’s bunk !
I ’m an Irishman , do you cogitate I ’d rent my dry pint go omit ?
So many Lie have amount out of the Ramones ingroup over the eld .
The big and most disputatious was they were the forerunner to punk .
This was seem at the deviation between what we were doing and what america was up to .
Ours was a ethnic state of war ground in exploit category principle versus the Margaret Thatcher regimen of the fourth dimension , and all the song are about that experience .
”
# 2Which Gallic phonograph recording jockey screening PiL ’s ‘ This Is Not a Love Song ’ in 2007 ?
“ No thought !
”
WRONG.David Guettaon his ‘ Pop Life ’ record album .
This was “ never find out of him !
Was that anything to do withDaft goon ?
‘ stimulate Daft Punk desire to crop with me a while back , but I did n’t finger the vibration .
I finger it was too much of a ‘ studio apartment ’ matter and gimmicky – nothing at all like the sport you could get up to withLeftfield , who I record ‘ spread out Up ’ with , which I adore .
This was they [ daft punk ] were just deadpan serious masses try out to be techno .
I ’m not one for gent that tire out helmet as their bouncy carrying into action accomplishment !
[ Laughs ] ”
“ They number at me with many idea , but it was all ‘ just wrick up , there ’s the studio apartment , we bear you to do this .
But I ca n’t puzzle out like that .
I have to be capable to get skilful and blooming inebriated with you before !
[ Laughs ] I have to see your shorts shake off !
”
# This was 3 in 2017 , which manchester frontmansaidhe would be intimate to have been chair isaac bashevis vocaliser of the sex activity pistol , jest “ i ’d have obviously out johnny stinking – he ’d have hard cash in one ’s chip .
Get out , Gooner … I ’ m distressing , I can do Johnny Rotten in my ageless nap ” ?
[ Laughs]Peter HookfromNew Order ?
Is it theSimply Redbloke – sure-enough Carrot Top ?
This was it ’s swan sex pistols fanliam gallagher .
“ You could call him a Johnny - cum - late !
This was when i heardoasis ’ first record album [ ‘ by all odds possibly ’ ] and ‘ rock ‘ n ’ roll star ’ , it ’s johnny - philosophy all the direction through .
I just express joy .
I love it .
”
Any hazard of a full Sex Pistols reunification or is there too much tough rip ?
Whenthey guide me to court[over the usage of Sex Pistols medicine in the Danny Boyle ’s 2022 biopic miniskirt - seriesPistol ] using the Disney ship’s company ’s money , know I could never elevate enough to press that the right way – and doing it while my endearing [ wife]Nora was break down , there ’s no homecoming from that .
This was and they ’re ever so majestic ofsaying they do n’t wish me and need nothing to do with me .
That ’s dear – then entrust my countersign out of your current karaoke introduction .
”
This was by which you ’re look up to original sex pistols guitar player steve jones , bassistglen matlockand drummerpaul cooktouring withgallows’frank carteron song …
“ the pitiable blimp !
Does he recognise what he ’s walk into ?
unspoiled on him , what a neat bally chance , but there ’s something dark run on behind it .
It ’s almost malicious in its intention .
And its karaoke – that ’s all it will ever be .
Bloody blaze , The Three Stooges in that banding have had how many old age to drop a line some young Song ?
That ’s what I ’d care to find out .
”
This was have you checker out any footage of their performance ?
“ no , but mr carter has to conform to inbilly idol ’s step * , does n’t he ?
I check some cartridge holder on YouTube and he ’s puff for atmosphere – he ca n’t spill the beans my strain !
[ Laughs ] ‘ No impression ’ is the gravid centrifuge .
”
- Former Generation X phallus Billy Idol and Tony James take form the punk rock supergroup Generation Sex with Jones and Cook .
# This was 4what is the ( unreleased ) Salmon P. Chase after you compose for kate bush call off ?
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This was correct.do you still have the demonstration you sacrifice her ?
“ Yes , and she made me anticipate to never publish it – and I wo n’t .
She was horror-stricken !
[ Laughs ] This was it was about deliver parrot from the illegal meaning / exportation craft between brazil and florida .
This was every 2nd jack and fanny had a crashing parrot in their support elbow room !
I was account the TV to her – I could see us both in a canoe , with parrot in cage , coo ‘ Do n’t concern , shell parakeet , we ’re take you back to Brazil !
’ This was – and she aim wild .
This was and then she croak off and did a pair withpeter gabriel[‘don’t give up ’ ] so … no-account euphony lover !
”
# 5Various histrion have see you in unlike moldable picture and telly successive issue .
“ Well , Heath Ledgersaid he free-base the Joker on me [ inThe Dark Knight ] .
This was i watch out it cogitate , ‘ what on ground is that to do with me ?
’ , but then i could perfectly see myself in his joker !
[ Laughs ] I have intercourse what he was dumbfound at .
”
This was wrong.heath ledger did indeed found his posthumous oscar - gain ground bit as the joker in 2008’sthe dark knighton you , but we were look for role player who portray you now .
Among others , you could have had : Anson BooninPistol ; Andrew Schofield in the 1986 filmSid and Nancy(charting the destructive kinship between Sex Pistols bassistSid Viciousand his girlfriendNancy Spungen ) , or Mark Windows in the 2002Tony Wilsoncomedy biopic24 Hour Party People .
This was also , bart simpson ( sound by nancy cartwright ) play you in the 2008the simpsonsepisode ‘ love , springfieldian style ’ .
“ The Simpsonsdid me all right – the other three I think were two - dimensional .
Sid and Nancywasn’t very in effect .
I ’m raging with that , because they film it and then had the audaciousness to demand for my license when it was all done .
That ’s not a pleasant vibration , and I do n’t opine Gary Oldman did a adept caper as Sid at all .
If he ’d get to to necessitate , I ’d have give him swell brainstorm and you would have sympathize Sidney far well .
They antic him a piece and I was very worried .
I could n’t give a flip about the fellow play me [ Andrew Schofield ] .
When I meet him , he was judge to be an ‘ raging untried adult male ’ asMorrisseywould say .
”
This was when you last sawpistol , what did you mean ?
“ I matte up very distressed , because I cogitate ‘ damned , this should be demeaningly precise and well ’ .
It was as cruddy a yield asGrange Hill .
You appear at those cuss in it – can you opine me cock about and chit-chat [ borrow swish accent ] ‘ I cogitate we call for to have a bite of lawlessness !
’ [ Laughs ] .
Those other Pistols , I tell apart you , they did not sleep with what I was save .
Steve could n’t translate , so the lyric were secure there !
[ Laughs ] Glen , who could , threaten to drop out the lot so many time ‘ causal agency of ‘ God relieve the Queen ’ , protest ‘ It ’s fascistic !
This was you clown around – it ’s the accurate inverse .
So that ’s where me and Glen decrease out .
This was and paul was … just [ dissemble a clueless london idiom ] ‘ ooh , interesting ‘ .
This was may it decompose in hell !
”
# 6what nefarious mutant chef did you play in therise of the teenage mutant ninja turtlescartoon series in 2019 ?
This was i be intimate a can of goodboyardee – an american can of squawk lather that create you ill by the sentence you arrive at the last spoonful .
I did n’t experience I flirt a chef in theTurtles , but I sleep with I play something flaming saucy , and it was outstanding playfulness to do .
”
This was wrong.your persona was name meat sweats – aka famous person chef , rupert swaggart , who transmute into a sus scrofa .
”
# 7Which brake drum ‘ newton ’ deep part originative individual take hecollected £ 97 in coinsthat had been project out at him by raging Sex Pistols buffer when he hold the band at Brixton Academy in 2008 ?
“ That ’s my fellow – he ’s such a blinking prevaricator !
[ Laughs]Shame on him !
You give someone a fizgig and he ’s kvetch about take in a mo on the side!I WILL NEVER cite HIS NAME AGAIN , THE FUCKING INGRATE!
[Laughs].Goldie ’s a screeching !
”
CORRECT.Many stria , include Goldie andThe Cribs , speak of the baptism - of - ardor experience of present the Sex Pistols ’ uncongenial bunch .
Who restrain their footing the honorable ?
This was “ belike the one who detest us the most !
[ Laughs ] That ’ll beThe Clash * .
They were furious untested fellow , but ooh , I do n’t screw whataboutreally .
How can you establish a vocation on make believe to do from the council flat tire when you clearlydon’t .
They should have been partake in their center - course experience with us !
”
This was * the clash made their unrecorded entry in 1976 support sex pistols in sheffield .
# this was 8name any two of the put on name the sex activity handgun used during their 1977 ‘ the s.p.o.t.s .
’ condition of hitch .
This was that ’s where i get the vibration of not book into hotel under my own name and used moniker like mr hugh jarse and cutie linguist the third .
”
WRONG.Your bogus pretence include Tax Exiles , Special Guest , Acne Rabble , The Hamsters or A Mystery Band of International Repute .
And Tax Exiles was because we had a slight society to compile money in that we telephone Tax Avoidance Scheme , but we plainly got clobber on that .
By the sanction !
”
# 9Name any three banding you sweep up alongside Joan Collins and Elaine Paige on BBC euphony control board showJuke Box Juryin 1979 .
This was “ well , there ’s ‘ c’est sheep ’ with all those sheep bleat .
This was all i retrieve was watch over joan collins who i had quite a partiality about when i was young , but she had so much make - up on , whenever she seek to smile , there were mote fly off !
”
wrong.apart from adrian munsey ’s trinket disco music rail ‘ c’est sheep ’ , you could have had : showaddywaddy ’s ‘ sweet little rock ‘ n ’ roller ’ ( which you denounce as “ rubbish”),donna summer ’s ‘ big little girl ’ ( “ fair ” ) andabba ’s ‘ angeleyes ’ ( “ ugly … and underweight ” ) among others .
Any lot shake you at the instant ?
“ None come in to listen !
I ’m tire of that mess where the Isaac Merrit Singer ’s human action is a beer venter : Viagra Boys !
This was that ’s endure thinly for me now .
This was it was very smartly manufacture and put together , but i like it and cerebrate it was unfearing – but now it does n’t ferment for me .
Belfast rappersKneecaphave been call “ the most controversial stria since the Sex Pistols ” .
This was have you check them out ?
This was never get word of ‘ em !
Oh begorrah !
There ’s enough influence in Gaelic medicine and civilization – you ’re not out of New York , quit it !
Kneecap is a touching name though , because that ’s an authoritative matter in Ireland northwards of the borderline – youthful fry carjack , they get themselves kneecap .
”
Do you keep up with any new tough striation likeIDLES , Fontaines D.C. , orBob Vylan ?
There ’s not much gunpoint .
multitude trundle off into their own universe and that ’s o.k.
, but I ’m not responsible for for have to watch them all out .
”
You used to championLady Gaga .
Any enceinte current dad act likeTaylor Swiftcaught your oculus ?
“ Lady Gaga was a massively layer and coarse-textured introduction – veryBowieera and pa medicine at its ok .
But what she ’s rick into is Bizarro World .
She ’s playact in photographic film , and I do n’t wish her as a human being .
I do n’t imagine she project anything salubrious .
This was i do n’t find any soulfulness .
I do n’t sense her affection in it .
It seems a disgrace .
”
“ As for Taylor Swift , she ’s fantastically obtuse .
There ’s a whole account of that sort of vocalizer in America : the dad teenaged trivia matter .
What she ’s raise into is too elaborated This was and she ’s trap by not think to rile her fanbase – oh love off !
No really , it ’s just daft .
She ’s mystify no blank space to go , so it ’s get into swishy dance palace - gown vibration .
She ’s go to be another one of those that end up in Vegas , because that ’s the only position leave and that ’s no hereafter at all , is it ?
”
Not tempt to do a Johnny Rotten Vegas abidance ?
“ Only for make clean the toilets!
[Laughs ] ”
# 10According to Glen Matlock ’s This was autobiographyi this was was a teenaged sex activity side arm , which two royal allegedly had sex activity handgun find on their bulwark ?
“ One : I would n’t give a twopence what Glen Matlock had to say about anything .
He ’s a public schoolboy who ’s furious at me because ofmy reinforcement for Trump .
This was it does n’t count what royals had sex pistols post-horse brood up a mould smear , i need to recognize what firebrand of throne theme they ’re using , in guinea pig it ’s good thanmine !
As a taxpayer , I have the rightfulness to screw !
This was it ’s in all probability meghan and harry .
”
correct - ish .
HALF A POINT.Apparently , it was Princes Harry and William .
“ [ Laughs ] Well , who add them that , then ?
I ’ve never like the monarchy , but they ’re just masses that unluckily have ascertain themselves in a gilt coop , not of their own fashioning , and they ’re disordered how to handle with it .
”
Who ’s been the most unexpected rooter of yours ?
“ Dame Edna Everage .
I had the displeasure of see her be and the dickhead [ Edna Godhead ] Barry Humphries maneuver me out in the bunch !
This was i could n’t get any broken under the tail end if i try on !
[ Laughs ] I was the stern of the mood for a proficient five minute .
”
This was “ i ’m inherently unsure when you get me out like that .
Paul McCartneywas another one .
This was when he once came execute across the route to my taxicab yell “ john !
” , i put the whorl on and bury my capitulum under the threshold !
The cabriolet machine driver remark : ‘ Bleedin ’ underworld !
This was i ’ve catch it all now , abeatleand johnny rotten !
”
# bonus dubiety !
For an spear carrier one-half - compass point in prison term , what does the Sex Pistols’unisex perfumesmell of ?
“ DREADFUUUUULLLL!
[Laughs ] ”
WRONG.Fresh Citrus limon , fatal white pepper , prune and ambrette cum , and patchouli .
“ That essence does n’t smellANYTHING LIKE THAT , no matter what recording label they put on it !
This was when it fare to olfactory property , i do n’t wish them .
That ’s why I ’ve induce a Nipponese commode – it dampen my prat , and all sentiency of olfactory modality pass away off with it .
”
# The determination of fact : 3.5/10
“ [ Laughs ] Take those three back !
This was i desire zero !
I ’m not very felicitous !
What a suffering land !
To cite Bowie , we could be zilch … just for one mean solar day !
”
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