ObiSobi

The imfamous line uttered by Steve Jones, "What a f*cking rotter" effectivly ended the interviewer's career, and brought punk rock into the lime light.

My question is, had Jones not said that, would Punk (and the Sex Pistols) been so popular?

ghostonstage135

Eventually it had to happen. I don't think a single line from a single interview started an entire movement.....

ObiSobi

Well, the interviewer who got fired for that interview was well known, so it's possible (in my mind atleast) that the Pistols were brought to the public's eye by this.

sleepy jack

There were much more profanities said before he said fucking rotter, so nothing would've been really different if he didn't say fucking rotter. The interviewer also didn't get fired, just suspended for a few weeks.

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Urban Hat€monger ?

Well he was

He was suspended , bought back & then the show was axed 6 weeks later.

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Lost_At_22

The interviewer was Bill Grundy who was a famed alcoholic. The Pistols were plied with drink all afternoon in order to get an "interesting" interview but it backfired when Jones started swearing. Any interviewer worth his weight would have cut the interview there and then, but Grundy goaded them on asking them for more "naughty words".....the rest is history.

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ADELE

You just wont accept that the pistols invented punk man!
Yes people swore before Rotten and yes there were bands that played instruments before that sounded punkish but lets just accept this forum would not have a punk section had it not been for the pistols.
Just as it doesn't have a skiffle section.

Wake up and smell the coffee for the love of God.

sleepy jack

I was talking about the Pistols interview dumbass.

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ADELE

Yeah and he never worked again and died shortly after.
Like you make out he was ticked off and he came back with a game show for old ladies on Grampian Tele six months later.
It ruined his career and he deserved it for trying to ridicule young blokes by comparing them to Motzart.
You make it sound like he was presenting Mr and Mrs the following autumn.
That show started punk and got all the squares protesting outside halls and got it all over the media. That kick started the revolution from crappy rick wakemen prog rock to music with balls and the world changed.
(not including the floyd in prog rock bashing.)
Have you had your coffee!

Urban Hat€monger ?

he died in 1993 so if you think 17 years later is shortly afterwards i'm going to make a point of never asking you to do any timekeeping for me.

And he did work again , on several things actually like 'What the papers say' which was one of BBC2's top rated news programmes.

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