![]() I have to believe there is another side to this story. ![]() ![]() Parker goes out of his way again and again to cast Lydon as a backstabbing friend, the man who got into the Pistols ahead of Vicious purely by chance and abandoned his former mate when Vicious needed him most. While Parker doesn’t hold Sid in the highest esteem, he at least treats him even-handedly that’s not the case with John Lydon, aka Sex Pistols front-man Johnny Rotten. Although this is the only book I’ve ever read about the Pistols or even more generally UK punk, certain shortcomings are apparent. Parker explains how the man who wasn’t even part of the band when it began (Vicious took over on bass for Glen Matlock in 1977), and whose bass playing is only featured on at most two songs from the Sex Pistols classic debut album Never Mind the Bollocks, became one of the most legendary figures in punk rock history. ![]() And if the Sex Pistols were the embodiment of UK punk, Sid Vicious was the face. As far as America was concerned in 1977, the Sex Pistols were UK punk, and to hear Alan Parker tell it you would have to agree. ![]()
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