God Save The Sex Pistols | Full Punk Documentary | Sid Vicious | Johnny Rotten

By the time Never Mind the Bollocks Here's the Sex Pistols was released, on 28 October 1977, both the band and the punk culture that had formed around them had begun to unravel.Get under the skin of the controversial Punk Rockers!
Stars: John Lydon, Sid Vicious, Paul Cook, Steve Jones, Don Letts
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[@xyz8655]

Nice to see Glen getting acknowledged for his huge contribution.

[@stevenholt1867]

Exploded on to KZbin! Brilliant! Paul Cook great drummer! Anarchy!! 😊

[@alaintremaine3302]

I had heard that 'Punk was not music' from my classmates. After I heard 'Pretty Vacant' on the radio I was hooked! The band played notes in tune and on time. I went straight out and bought 'Never Mind the Bollocks.' That led to The Clash and Generation X's first' LPs in 1978.

[@Cityzen1-p1n]

Paul Cook is such an underrated drummer. Letting Sid in the band was the worst decision ever

[@mikestashko8602]

Glen Matlock seems like the most based in reality person in this whole crazy world. I don’t care how much he washed his feet. 🙂

[@DJDizzyStorms]

I was introduced to them when I was 11 & since then I dug the punk scene

[@karllux-d6g]

2025's Summer is about to pop up, with half a century of Sex Pistols (i cut the definite article which makes them ''common'' - for instance, you don't use it with Sparks, so...). It's never too late for the world to reckon this was absolutely GREAT. In 76/77 i was on my 8th grade, in a country which was still shaken badly by a masonic/red revolution, on the left side of the Spanish border, just a couple of years prior. This was WHAT I was secretly expecting from the world, not soviet chants at party rallies.

[@newforestpixie5297]

Sparks 😃❤️👽🐢🐀

[@mjh5437]

The Sex Pistols 50th Anniversary!! Who woulda thunk it??!!..Time flies indeed!

[@ADAMKANE510]

the only band i remember hearing for the first time and feeling the power....

[@LorraineHinchliffe-vg5cb]

John Lydons lyrics were incredible, for such a young lad, at that time. The fact that he is the only 1 of them that had a great band afterward in the shape of "Public Image Limited", says it ALL!

[@newforestpixie5297]

the 1st Punk i saw was a 5th Year in a corridor at our secondary school whom stuck out due to his wearing a shocking ragged furry jumper , Docs & long quiffy DA who was loudly goading a 6th Form ‘Hairy’ - clutching his Floyd or Led Zep LPs . His goad i never forgot because i was into music & rather than being too rude or violent , it was factual & went - “ Sabbath can no longer fill the Circle at the Gaumont ! “ he was referring to the local big band venue - the Southampton Gaumont which had Stalls, Circle & Upper Circle …& perhaps the Never Say Die Tour. We down on the coast were separated from London back then & 9 months behind the trends . Unfortunately the M3 ruined all that in many respects…that 9 months to get past Winchester had made a big difference !

[@mjh5437]

Carry on to the Isle of Wight,never mind 9 months,they`re 9 YEARS behind the times there lol

[@newforestpixie5297]

in 1980 a fight broke out in our class at Poole Tech after a classmate Russ asked the guy from Bridport or Sherborne if Punk had reached there yet ! Simon The singer of Blues / Punk band Sunny Jim Cyanide from Lymington told us he was spending the summer in Barbados . Two weeks later i found him pulling pints in a pub in Ryde 😁❤️🍒🐀

[@James-ly3wf]

Jon Rob! That walking haircut would be on the dole without endless “punk” retrospective documentaries. And the world would be completely unbothered

[@LorraineHinchliffe-vg5cb]

It's funny seeing all these middle class pricks, analysing 1big myth. I love the Sex Pistols, but hate the so called "managers" and "journalists"😂

[@AdamMcGrath]

Does anybody remember the name of John Robb's band? Yeah, me neither. I looked them up online and listened to some of their output, and I have to say, it hasn't changed my opinion of Mr. Robb...I still think that he's a punk klingon, a journalist who glommed onto the whole punk movement (in the same way that Caroline Coon did) and has spent the rest of his life speaking with great authority about the subject to anybody who will listen (and pay him enough for the privilege of doing so.) Essentially, a pretender to Rotten or Vicious' throne who lacks the talent, charisma or pedigree of the Pistols (his own band sucks btw), a man who loves attention, a wannabe encyclopedia of knowledge about "the punk scene" who still wears the mandatory mohawk and imagines himself an anarchist, albeit a very middle-class one. Basically, a c*nt. Am I wrong??? Comments and replies are welcome...

[@tompanoname3579]

A- man.

[@Maulicious]

Steady on geezer!! I don't know the man but he comes across as someone who was there at the time. He speaks eloquently, and been given the platform to relate what he saw and his feelings. Doesn't matter whether he was in a was in a crap or great band, a handy-man, a plummer, or what he looks like. Props too to Caroline Coon for writing about Punk at inception. And of course DJ John Peel.

[@libertard6101]

Ahh. HA Haaa. Ever feel like John Rob has been Hated !! 🤣🤙🏽

[@AdamMcGrath]

@@Maulicious Caroline Coon was a Hooray Henrietta who was more interested in shagging guys in bands than writing about them, John Peel was a nonce. The punk ethos from the very beginning was (and still is) all about being an individual and calling a c*nt a c*nt when appropriate. If you want to be a lukewarm clone, be my guest, but I don't have to like you for being one. Society blows, and it needs real people to remind us of this fact, not plastic knobheads who sugarcoat the past to further their careers. Bollocks.

[@mjh5437]

@@Maulicious Who are you calling a Coon?

[@hammeredwithhorror]

I hate to be that guy but Sid WAS plugged in and playing at the San Francisco show. Watch at about 42:00 you can see and hear him hitting the notes.

[@ronfast2]

I can guarantee he was plugged in at Winterland... I was there and in front

[@alessandrosarnerlla3545]

Everybody and anybody Who was there at the winterland or have seen the video in later years know that Sid was plugged in......no question about It.....its Just another One of those Urban Legends going along with the pistols myth.....thats all

[@mccann444]

Sid could play . He took so much Flak but he could play the Bass on the Bollocks Album .

[@ronfast2]

@@mccann444 uhhhhhh no he didnt

[@mccann444]

@@ronfast2 hi yes you are correct . What I meant was he could play the song from the Bollocks Album not he played on the Album 😊

[@DanHintz]

the damned and the stranglers were really the first uk punk bands. but the sex pistols ignited the media sensation (and the waves of posers) with the grundy tv spat--funny to think that dumbass bill grundy might be the main reason for the global punk scene. and yeah, forcing matlock out was idiotic/self-sabotage.

[@C0RRUPT3DITOR]

Alex Ogg speaks so eloquently, listening to him makes me feel smarter; like I'm passively gaining knowledge. Wonder how he's doing now

[@Swumhole]

Why do the credits say the songs were released on Warner Brothers when NMTB came out on Virgin?

[@markgreet3543]

This is decent got it on dvd, ive a big collection of sex pistols items, met glen and john both nice guys, seen them 6 times on comeback tours.

[@glamnesianouveaux2039]

Thank goodness for Punk Rock in 1976/1977. Among all the flairs and brown

[@delanoarts3703]

Hearing on live shit recording has this horrible sound it's so bad that it's good and I love it sometimes art doesn't make sence and only appeals to human emotions to me that's live sex pistols

[@mjh5437]

They`re amazing,the most endlessly fascinating band ever!

[@theoriginalrabbithole]

The Sex Pistols were a 'boy band' assembled from the streets of London by clothing impresario, Malcolm McLaren to market the 'ripped street clothes' he and designer Vivienne Westwood were selling from their London boutique, SEX. NONE of the Sex Pistols could actually play the instruments they STOLE from local venues, they just wailed away behind Johnny (Lydon) Rotten's coarse lyrics with coarse music, kids loved it and...bought Malcom and Vivienne's clothes at their 'punk boutique'! 😉 The Sex Pistols were never anything but the "posers" they claimed to hate, themselves. Fashion models with musical instruments, mixed with a zeitgiest created by teenage boredom. Nothing more! 🙄

[@Swumhole]

Partially correct but mostly not. I guess you didn't watch this, just decided to bung in some trolling platitudes in the hope someone will bite? Fortunately everyone has realised you are clueless and aren't worth the time

[@dnk1870]

Love the Mott shout out. My favorite band along with the Pretenders and Roxy. Throw Bowie in there and you've got everyone's influences. Saw the Pistols last show in SF. Rather I'd seen the first few.

[@mjh5437]

You were at Winterland? Count yourself lucky mate!

[@waynesilverman3048]

I might get that book of the tour minder experience

[@markgreet3543]

Huge fan. Best band ever, never mind the bollocks heres the sex pistols amazing band.

[@marcusbrothers5221]

Steve Albini is a womble

[@mjh5437]

No he`s not,I saw him littering once.

[@AdamMcGrath]

And he didn't live on Wimbledon Common either!

[@delanoarts3703]

Sex pistols so important let's face it compared to any average metal musicians they weren't very good but for what they were doing they were the very best absolutely great there riffs have been recopied and repackaged 1000s of times there songs are iconic pretty fucking good for band that had a pretty good drummer and bass player but there guitar player hated the guitar and singer couldn't sing are ryme i5s seriously incredible what they became

[@Colin-ro6lh]

Wrong way to look at it & Steve hadn't been playing guitar that long & the thing is you can get someone thats amazing on guitar & someone not so good but plays with more feeling the one not as good is the better guitarist

[@waynesilverman3048]

If they would of broke America it would of took a lot of gigs as USA is huge but it would of been very good especially in the 8os

[@floydianslip007]

Floyd was never establishment, humanity & a proper education was the vibe... Not punk destroying everything & not understanding humanity & how to restore it... Sticking 2 fingers up to everything without an alternative leads to nowhere but oblivion...

[@JoshRegan72]

Nothing new here. Im out.

[@Lord_Hillcrest02]

You saved me an hour Ty .

[@James-ly3wf]

Same haircuts saying the same shit over the same footage. Shit, who am I kidding? I’m watching it

[@RevStickleback]

I think it's a 20 year old documentary, so not surprising.

[@jirivranek3072]

Glenn should have not been kicked off the band. With Sidney on bass it wasn't music at all.

[@PlayerToBeNamedLater1973]

Sidney?

[@TerryChimes123]

Nothing in this has any input from Cook, Jones or Lydon. Not to be taken seriously.

[@dondamon4669]

Sid vicious is a joke

[@mjh5437]

Takes one to know one "Don" lolol

[@James-ly3wf]

He was a joke dear boy. Sid Vicious WAS a joke. Past tense

[@dalegriffin6768]

John Lydon was the Iggy pop of the British punk scene.

[@philipjones7372]

Are u sure?..John Lydon stage diving, bare chested, inviting the crowd on stage, singing love songs like Johanna etc

[@dalegriffin6768]

@philipjones7372 good point. Iggy also sings about his height, "five ft one" off the album "true value"and being bored. "Im bored, I'm the chairman of the bored."

[@philipjones7372]

@@dalegriffin6768 love Chairman of the bored👍🏼

[@dzonnyblue3065]

Punk Sucks !

[@anthonybrennan2569]

If the Irish famine of the 19th century, never happened There would never have been SEX PISTOLS THE BEATLES JOY DIVISION THE SMITHS BAUHAUS Irish lads, in all of them. Their parents and grandparents, would have stayed , in the home country

[@Mr.MFuckingYTchangedmyname]

Oh, so the famine was a good thing now? What's da big oidea?

[@mjh5437]

Weird flex lololol

[@AdamMcGrath]

Very true, sir! Second generation Irish resident of Liverpool right here. Cheers!!!

[@anthonybrennan2569]

​@@AdamMcGrathhi from Roscommon