Sex Pistols Reunion Press Conference - 100 Club, London, 1996

Complete press conference for the 1996 reunion tour.

[@There_is_No_Spoon_]

Steve gives Johnny a cigarette so he can shut up

[@TT-hl5ql]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 I knew as soon as he stood up, that was it. 😂

[@jimmyjarrett-ws2iz]

Paul looks embarrassed 😂

[@damienocallaghan7914]

Reunion? We have found a common cause and it is your Money Best Reply EVER

[@cristynlane3490]

I really love John, he speaks his mind, and I admire that! A totally honest guy,deeply respected.

[@thestr8person]

Yes, just that he contradicts himself completely if you let him talk long enough, if you consider that honesty that's fine. Total mess of a mind that guy has and it's for real, it's not for show, he never turns off.

[@realsinisterminister]

@Nigel 61 He's got the right to do what he wants!

[@revol148]

@@thestr8person totally agree there really is no off button even in his early 60's. Witness the interviews on this website - even mild mannered interviewers are ridiculed, talked down to and patronised - especially the ones who don't shower him with praise.

[@johnnyrotundo6483]

@@revol148 agreed. I like the man, but he does have a huge ego.....

[@gwendolynemaeystadt7531]

@@thestr8person He's the ultimate narcissist.

[@delanoarts3703]

This was when pop punk hit big honestly I'm glad they cashed in on the trend the pistols deserved to make some money

[@levgtz8158]

pop punk, wtf?

[@ginsu7077]

Lev Gtz Green Day, sum 41 etc

[@Eleventhearlofmars]

@@ginsu7077 they’re not punk they’re ker plunk.

[@sammencia7945]

Yep. They deserve every guinea. They made everyone's career possible.

[@shagatron9113]

Seriously Delano seriously?

[@implumkrazy]

He Does Not Let The Press Control The Narrative, He Control's it !!!! Love John Lydon

[@denmac19]

12:40 Rotten calling out Fake News 20 years before it became fashionable.

[@Houl23]

Great interview ! John eats the press !!!

[@danielaschwarz1971]

That is true,Anne Beverly Mother from Sid Vicious saw this before she died of an overdose and she was upset what John Lydon aka Johnny Rotten said about Sid.

[@Houl23]

+Daniela Schwarz Yes , it's hard what John says about Sid. He's maybe really honest when he talks about Sid in the film "the filth and the fury". Sid was not a good bass player but when he joins the pistols he was learning bass and he really tried to play bass . But after heroin did a dirty work on him ... and then to learn bass was not a priority. Glen stays the original bass player and he's a fabulous bass player and songwriter.

[@merseybeast76]

Yes, but she was the one feeding her son smack after Nancy died, she's responsible for Sid's death

[@danielaschwarz1971]

Houl23 Yes it is hard and I read tha Anne Beverly,you know all that Anne was his mum and she was heroin addicted since 1962,but in some interviews he talk great about Sid and that he missed him and that Johnny was to young to handle with his dead because his mum died in november on terminal cancer and I lost my mum too:( Anyway the shit heroin cancle your feelings and your creativity,you are right).... So,when his mum saw this video she was so upset what Johnny said about SID and then or few day´s afer this interview from Johnny she made a overdose in September 1996.

[@ernestoribeiro2226]

@Anderson Cooper ALL OF YOU ARE RIGHT.

[@OneLifeTime.x]

This was like a return of the legends...humble...real.....

[@parker9977]

Steve is the greatest!! a King!!!

[@Thompsdan]

Arise - King Steven!

[@ronskon2054]

and then there's Jeff Beck, So if Jonesy Is King then Beck is God

[@GraffitiPhysical]

Here we have it. Freedom. Say what you want, be what you wanna be, do what you want to do. Love em.

[@daevidharvey7113]

crazy that even this is now 21yrs ago ... time !?!? I remember it like yesterday @ the Molson Amphitheatre in Toronto . I had the perfect spot , 3 steps up at the back of the floor - just beautiful & they were fantastic , absolutely fantastic ... then a short time after was Steve's Neurotic Outsiders at a little club RPM also Toronto of which I swear that was the best Punk Band I had ever seen bar nobody !! Pure Class

[@jonhufford6980]

John Lydon always manages to provoke and get reactions out of people. God bless him

[@MrCrispian]

wish they would gig again...

[@UnkleJohn84]

highly unlikely

[@germa9850]

@@UnkleJohn84 I dunno Jonesys jukebox says otherwise

[@revol148]

+MrCrispian you clearly didn't see them at Crystal palace in 2002 - they were terrible

[@TT-hl5ql]

@@germa9850 Jonesy said rotten always made him uncomfortable.

[@jprobertson-e1j]

Steve definitely looks like a Michael Madsen fan

[@bazookajoe2889]

I remember watching all this when I was like 11 or 12?! The Sex Pistols was the coolest shit I ever discovered back then . I worked for a record store handing out flyers , I hung out and just looked through records all day .. what made this store great , is about half of their records were bootlegs of live shows or rarities . My first CDs were Great Rock n Roll Swindle and then a couple live double disc releases . And then outta nowhere , Johnny Rotten was back and pissed off and I was ALL IN . I never got to see them live , but it was surreal to be exposed to Green Day/Rancid/Pennywise/NoFX and other skin/NYHC bands , then have this OG maniac show up to fuxking spank everyone haha . Damn this brought back memories man . I’m punching out!

[@dinoleo3804]

Johnny Rotten never let anyone speak.

[@forgive7449]

at least he didn't kill his girlfriend 😕

[@royalston2324]

No. He seems to see the others as his backing band

[@royalston2324]

Sid had the best voice, period

[@underdawg2743]

He's playing to the press

[@lejlatiric7037]

Maybe because no one was as interesting as him and let's be honest, would the interview be better if johnny shut up? I don't think so,he just spoke his mind and was totally real

[@TheCookster64]

John is possibly one of the wisest people on the entire planet.

[@douglasfreeman3229]

This was simultaneously hilarious and excruciating. The Pistols destroyed the previous notion that hilarious and excruciating were mutually exclusive.

[@TECHNOIR]

When John came on with ‘Fat, 40 and back!!! That was exhilarating, so funny, really owned it

[@JETJOOBOY]

WOW, this is like when 19 years was like a long time in Rock & Roll!

[@fabiopunk1661]

"I am 21 and I have been like that for 19 years" - super

[@newkekarmyreee4788]

I see them at Phoenix festival. Awesome. Old and young united.

[@NigelFortune]

John is hilarious i fucking love him hahaha!!

[@dia.6213]

I'd like to here the other Pistols speak.

[@michaelmonkhouse3036]

Yeah but they didn't. They had plenty of chances

[@DevilMaskMedia]

It's like saying you want to hear the other members of VanHalen speak when Roth has a mic in his hand. Good luck with that.

[@prpwnage9296]

Their mics were not working

[@fanboy2015]

Did Glenn, Jonsey and Cookie get to speak? LOL This is probably edited down, Im sure.

[@MrJules1977]

Brilliant, so funny, never been a band to match them.

[@AlanTaylorCRSmusicproduction]

Thanks for posting this

[@darrint3573]

"We invented punk?" LOL! Johnny's ailing memory should be reminded that he cites The Ramones & The NY Dolls as key influences. The Pistols & The Clash were listening to both bands long before any of 'em signed a record deal. The Ramones are still universally regarded as the Fathers Of Punk. That signature time beat in all of 2-minutes or less has become the blueprint for a genre of music known as "punk."

[@germa9850]

Hey heads up check out an Aussie punk band Radio Birdman that were formed before any true punk band and they sorta had that classic punk Ramones sound but a bit speed up.

[@gronxman1]

Not sure about The Dolls but Johnny definitely doesn't cite The Ramones as an influence. He thinks they were shit.

[@超虎生活]

@@germa9850 More like check out The Saints....If you want to talk about Aussie bands............

[@royalston2324]

And before them lggy

[@freeecountryy]

@@gronxman1 So why did he try and get backstage at the first gig they played in London to meet them? He thought they were a legit gang from NYC and thought he had to act tough. They offered him a beer that they had pissed in and he drank it. I'd probably be mad if that happened to me and was common knowledge afterwards. He's a tosser.

[@maccmoses]

The Johnny Rotton show as usual. I love the guy I really do but his ego is bonkers

[@MrMaharg65]

I wish we had a music revolution again - Music has gone backwards to before Punk.

[@revol148]

+Graham Hendry it's dead - just move on to something else rather than expecting anything more from this has-been art form !

[@revol148]

+Graham Hendry it's dead - just move on to something else rather than expecting anything more from this has-been art form !

[@sammencia7945]

Yep. It is 1975 with insipid pop ruling the charts

[@awm6598]

It's coming

[@betaville72]

Some valid points from Steven and Glen

[@velvetpilot2008]

"You must never get that wrong, Malcolm never ran off with the money. He was too fucking stupid" I love Johnny Rotten to death

[@emiofnnc]

That is actually a dumbass comment

[@TheTestingGrounds]

John is a dapper chap, looks like he had his hair done up special for the occasion.

[@JETJOOBOY]

Would have been nice for Steve and Paul (and Glen I suppose) to have spoken... or been heard and left in the edit!

[@shellovski]

Would have been a miracle! That's never going to happen with supergob in the house!

[@royalston2324]

No, don't you DARE try to get in johns light. Always screaming for bein loudest, in Centre etc and so end

[@Hepausesshaving182GGMU]

Johnny is just a treasure absolutely one of the most underrated front men in rock n roll

[@BobbyMidnightRocks]

I saw the Pistols in 96 at the Aragon ballroom in Chicago. It was great.

[@paulyfortissimo]

I was there too!

[@matthewbarr5274]

It was, wasn't' it?

[@unclefoiley819]

I saw them in Dallas Texas. Freaking awesome.

[@southcountydave]

Saw them at the Hollywood Palladium! Amazing!

[@fabiopunk1661]

well, one bottom line of true punk is provocation (another is rebellion). this is what they do here. I went to the Filthy Lucre Show in '96, and this now seems like a century ago ...this video in retrospective is a bit dated. I keep on playing their music as it gives me strength in this world that goes down the drain and seems sometime to make no sense at all. As the Ten Years After sang: "I wish I could change it but I do not know how....". Keep rockin' ya' all

[@mrmaxaxl]

Fabio Punk Yup. Now you live in muslim heaven. Bet you didn't see that coming in '96 😂

[@thebeast2746]

Max W And a shit hole called England hope you all choke in Muslim heaven. How ironic is that 😊

[@freeecountryy]

@@mrmaxaxl What the fuck are you on about?

[@ernestoribeiro2226]

Brasileiros em geral sempre idolatram a escória. A sua imagem de perfil é a prova disso.

[@crazyjane6570]

I sadly was born about a decade & a half too late for all of this but what fascinates me is just how relevant they are today & how little has changed?!! Xx

[@OvernightDrive]

After this tour, purportedly they were all individually "set for life" financially.

[@bookpaper105]

ive grown wide maybe best comeback ever

[@flowerpower1577]

I’ve loved mr John since I was 13 and still do now in my 20s👍 HE DA CHIEFTON!! Love ya John!!

[@ronnyvonallmen6892]

“Louder and Snottier”….Greatest Band Ever….

[@DamonMacready]

Glen still looks 20 years old here

[@Unsung_Earth]

And looks like he wants to leave again

[@apbeauregard]

The only way johnny works is if no one else is like him. As long as everyone else is more polite, but if someone else was just like him, he'd never be able to deal with that. I do agree with some of what he says and I actually kind of like him as a person.

[@fillherupjacko6841]

No one can deny that this aint amusing

[@IndependentGeorge76]

Heh, that doesnt make sense mate. Double negatives and all that...

[@fillherupjacko6841]

Ok Prof. George.

[@MrCrispian]

asshole

[@thestr8person]

septic tank ^

[@edwardferry1440]

@@IndependentGeorge76 It actually makes sense, if it was a double negative you would be correct but it is triple negative! (No, deny and ain't.)

[@Jacob-tj8ig]

- Do you like Oasis? - They're just a rock band, y'know. That's about as much of a compliment you could ever get from Johnny. I bet Liam and Noel are proud of that.

[@javierb5645]

@Sharks man, shut your mouth

[@brendanharcourt3463]

As a wee teenager listening to Bollocks, and X cert Stranglers, brought me into music, to this, cap doth to Hendrix.

[@Unsung_Earth]

Glens thinking .... I no why I left!!

[@blakejohnson7148]

Was that Johnny stopping to sign an autograph on his way in?

[@cattonlad7442]

How to handle a bunch of crap journalists in one easy lesson.

[@euanelliott8068]

The one easy lesson should have been target practise.

[@levgtz8158]

Alongside "how to annoy your coworkers".

[@levgtz8158]

@Anderson Cooper Seriously? another view could be "how NOT to act 'mature' nor act 'as we expect you must, at your age' "

[@j700jam4]

Lydon looks and dresses like Barney Rubble

[@royalston2324]

Sid wrote Belsen was a gas, both words and music

[@JETJOOBOY]

"OY JOHN!!! Have you lost weight"! JAJAJAJAAA

[@vgarciajuan]

Nightmare Rotten won't shut up his mouth. He won't allow other members to speak. Pain in the ass.

[@ernestoribeiro2226]

Exato. Ele é uma permanente dor no cu.

[@7colliemac]

They were Johns backing band .. he always was the talking head & wise cracker .. I didn’t see anybody else piping up.

[@Sweeney-Kubach]

I would love to John's take on Astros Scandal in the States! It would be brutal!

[@MrStonecold69]

5.59 Why did u reform? We have found a common cause and it is your money MOST HONEST ANSWER EVER

[@James-78]

when Lord Lydon speaks they all listen. there may be 3 other members in the band but they all wanted to hear what John had to say. I could tell Paul was irritated when John jumped when he was trying to speak. it was the John Lydon show that day.

[@gwendolynemaeystadt7531]

When you see John, you see where Boris got his image from.

[@swiftcee266]

*lol*

[@Eleventhearlofmars]

His Barnet does resemble bojos lol

[@longhotsummer7307]

Every few sentences, one has been edited out. Just hopeless.

[@sugarjohnson7402]

LOL...Steve Jones looked like he wanted to round house kick Johnny's face..

[@euanelliott8068]

He reminds me of Dobby the cab driver in Planes, Trains and Automobiles.

[@bionicbenofficial]

Sugar Johnson roundhouse kicks are too complex for Jonesyboy

[@TT-hl5ql]

He said rotten always made him uncomfortable lol imagine that.

[@skinnygrave2487]

@@euanelliott8068 Don't see nothing on interstate, but interstate

[@rainblaze.]

Fun fact. At the very same time the pistols played their first last concert at frescos winter gardens. Ted bundy was doing the chi omega killings.

[@JETJOOBOY]

"I reserve the right to change my mind about anything at anytime" Prove me Wrong! (or pay me to change it back) wankers

[@alphakub]

damn, Glen forgot to age. Looks great here, looks great today.

[@Sarah-gf9ed]

Absolutely love Johnny and the boys! Legends! ❤❤❤❤

[@JETJOOBOY]

Wow, I bet the VIDEO CAMERA used here cost a fortune.. now a cheap mobile phone can produce gorgeous video for NOWT!

[@Ryang403]

i see what johny meant when he said the others were not up to it v the press.

[@davehoward22]

Punk night,tuesdays and thursday at the 100 club

[@spaceengineer1452]

vid after vid, BAD sound.Did no one know how to mic a conference in '96?! OR any other time ?

[@thestr8person]

Does it even matter? Be grateful someone captured this moment in history and decided to share it with you instead of bitching

[@flexwinggpipi]

lookin at john and thinkin this is what boris johnson looks and gets like after a few beers

[@rosshaugh7937]

Jesus Christ, can Lydon not shut up for one minute?! There's 3 others in the band...

[@ilovespongebob33]

Steve Jones & Paul Cook are the most talented ones of the band You Guys Rock!

[@craigbrown2859]

I'd say Glen is pretty talented and John his PiL albums ar awsome.

[@ZaTsoja]

These two guys had no commercial success in their solo career, frankly speaking

[@daevidharvey7113]

That's a dumb thing to say ... John , Glen , Steve , Paul - 4 great songwriters in a great band , it's called chemistry & that kind of magic does not happen very often .

[@swiftcee266]

The only band that really mattered

[@GreenerHill]

"We're back... Fat'n'40!"

[@simonhunter3430]

''god save the queen my son!!!!'' lol

[@bionicbenofficial]

Don't tell me that wasn't steve's Steptoe reference at beginning

[@nimusworks5475]

Anger+Money is an Energy

[@nineoneoh]

Legends forever

[@faizam5789]

was that a diss he was making about The Clash?

[@royalston2324]

Once he called the song White riot FASCIST!! Thinks he's the inspiration for Rik in the Young ones, always shouts Fascist when someone, something is wrong

[@theogeo14]

I saw their reunion show at Red Rocks in Colorado - bad ass.

[@OneLifeTime.x]

Paul quickly became Microphone Man 🤣😊

[@IainFrame]

Fucking hell what a shambolic press conference.:-D

[@dalerbsr.5061]

He is so much more mature at this time of his life, in the past he would have spat on all the press and walked off by now! lmao He has valid points of the music industry, look at Taylor Swift's fight in 2019 for control of her art...

[@robdavidson1876]

waaa may have well called this the rotten interview no one else in band talked

[@peteryouds5634]

Yeah John needs to shut the fuck up , for at least 30 seconds , oh wait his EGO won’t allow it !

[@carloslozada2121]

they become a money making machine fair enough they earned it

[@JT-tj9ks]

This is the real life young ones minus the hippie...

[@hankybostik7634]

could be wrong....i could be right!

[@cricketbat09]

First question from the media: "This is sad isn't it?" lol.

[@MarkBrydondrums85]

Wow we need a sex pistols come back more now then ever the music scene and government need a kicking!!

[@chikitabowow]

There are few bands that has gotten as much shit for things that doesn't matter like the Sex Pistols

[@royalston2324]

At tge premiere of The filth and the fury Glen said "l don't want to see the film about Johnny rotten

[@royalston2324]

I know. It made me really glad

[@metrakos]

Jonesy’s can’t wait to get outta there....

[@harrybrown4077]

Him and Matlock, when John mentioned the Beatles, their faces ! Fuck. Embarrassing.

[@ernestoribeiro2226]

Unfortunatelly, Gentlemen, I wasted my money buying that John Lydon's memoir book "ROTTEN: No Irish, No Blacks, No Dogs". It's THE WORST autobiography EVER. It's a medium of one LIE per PAGE. Just like Malcolm McLaren. That Two deserve each other. Both of them HATE ROCK & ROLL. Johnny Rotten is utterlly jealous of the talentous artists such as Glen Matlock, Joe Strummer and the Clash. DENY ANY MERIT OR TALENT OR IMPORTANCE TO THE VERY CREATORS OF BRITISH PUNK. John Lydon wants Re-Write The History of Sex Pistols and English Punk nulificating them and With NO SINGLE WORD came from Glen Matlock, Joe Strummer and the Clash. --- in books and videos. His Dishonest Moves Turn His Book a Thurd So Repulsive as “it was really a shit sandwich I served to my wife friends guests.”

[@louiesparkes5213]

Poor Matlock, didn't get a word in edgeways

[@royalston2324]

I know, even though he wrote their best songs. Pretty Va-cunt was all him, even though john clained he wrote it. How low can you sink?

[@ernestoribeiro2226]

GLEN = GREAT! That's the TRUE HERO who created the Sex Pistols Classics and made the Punk Music POP: God Bless Matlock! He IS the Sex Pistols. I'm reading a bit of Glen's book : "I Was a Teenage Sex Pistol" --- it's AWESOME! "Pretty Vacant", had a complete lyric by Glen Matlock, which Johnny Rotten tweaked a bit; official credit was shared equally among the four. Never Mind the Other Pistols --- That's is my Hero! Glen Matlock is the Best Punk Music Writer Ever.

[@monnytoth]

@@ernestoribeiro2226 🙄 i guess i dont need to say much to make clear my thoughts on this matter --- SID: SEX PISTOLS / GLEN: THE BEATLES

[@ernestoribeiro2226]

@@monnytoth In your dellusional fantasy? Yes... But HERE IN THE REAL WORD: NO WAY. SID: NOTHING but Useless Poser / GLEN: SEX PISTOLS songwriter and bassist.

[@OneLifeTime.x]

John had a lot to say and rightly so.

[@ianfraserkilmister5608]

What did John say about the Ronnie Biggs incident? Cant make it out

[@prpwnage9296]

It would be along the lines of: wasn’t that awful criminal a great guy and he is tied in with the band isn’t that cool cos it makes us more edgy.

[@dangl650]

After being a fan as a kid I was so excited when this happened and remember thinking “Wow doesn’t Steve look old…!” Now looking at it as a 51 year old myself he doesn’t look so old..! It was a great year 1996 and that weekend in London the end of June…… Madness, Pistols & the Euros all going on. The Tories only a year away from being ousted…! Britpop…… the UK was buzzing……… 28 years later…….where did it all go wrong…!

[@prpwnage9296]

It went wrong because of tories being greedy liars

[@dangl650]

@@prpwnage9296….. that and as we get older we discover most of our Heroes have feet of clay and are happy just to ‘feather their nest’……. At least the Pistols were up front and honest about that. They did call the tour ‘Filthy Lucre’ after all

[@davehoward22]

5.24 Lydon allways says rules are for fools...make yer mind up

[@kennybegeske8824]

Pizza And Sex Pistols Do Mix

[@blacksunshine7485]

They shouldve invited Wally Nightingale

[@James-78]

He died in 1996

[@jontyarnold8522]

I wish Rotten would have spoke, hardly said a word.....😂

[@aivopark]

The guy who composed the songs on the album Never mind the bollocks is quiet.

[@anarchovegan9738]

sid wasnt there=belsem was a gas

[@cadillacblue3412]

Matlock is a class act!

[@ernestoribeiro2226]

GLEN = GREAT! That's the TRUE HERO who created the Sex Pistols Classics and made the Punk Music POP: God Bless Matlock! He IS the Sex Pistols. I'm reading a bit of Glen's book : "I Was a Teenage Sex Pistol" --- it's AWESOME! "Pretty Vacant", had a complete lyric by Glen Matlock, which Johnny Rotten tweaked a bit; official credit was shared equally among the four. Never Mind the Other Pistols --- That's is my Hero! Glen Matlock is the Best Punk Music Writer Ever.

[@Therealderry433]

@@ernestoribeiro2226 John changed vacant to vaycunt.

[@bluehorizon9435]

The Johnny Rotten show