The Sex Pistols were considered ‘shocking’ back in the mid 70s with their use of crude language and anti establishment sentiment as well as radical image but (like with all such things) were a massive hit with ‘the kids on the street’, which included me. I remember hearing about the group when I was a nine year old at school and some of the more switched on kids were talking about them in the playground however it was not until 1979 when I went to Loughborough Grammar School that I actually got to hear their ‘Never Mind The Bollocks’ album
and develop a real taste for punk rock!
This song (as well as ‘The Pistols’ themselves) also remind me of filming in Soho back in 1992 for ‘The Buddha Of Suburbia’. In Hanif’s novel ‘Charlie Hero’ (who reminded me of Billy Idol!) starts a punk band and his friend ‘The Fish’ arranges a concert in Soho club engineering some violent scenes to grab some publicity.
In the TV series I was playing ‘The Fish’ and we filmed those scenes on a Sunday using Soho Square as a base and filming in a club on Dean Street. The BBC had managed to get a large group of real punk rockers to work as extras, some of who actually remembered seeing ‘The Sex Pistols’ in Soho in the 1970s. I had a great time filming that day, however Naveen Andrews borrowed £5 from me that day which has still to return!
Now listen to the song….
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