The mundane task of shopping for shoes changed Glen Matlock’s life. Aged 18, the future Sex Pistols bassist walked into Vivienne Westwood and Malcolm McLaren’s shop on London’s King’s Road.
It turned out he couldn’t afford shoes there but he got something better – a Saturday job in Let It Rock, which soon became the punk pair’s iconic shop SEX.
Glen says: “I was still at school at the time and a bit lost in the shop.