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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
Entertainment
Andrew Stafford

Sex Pistols’ Steve Jones: ‘I like to fart in front of people. You can tell if someone’s cool from their reaction’

Steve Jones performing on stage
‘Whenever I go to a concert, I’m not interested in seeing a band for three hours’ … Steve Jones of the Sex Pistols, performing at O2 Forum in 2024. Photograph: Jim Dyson/Getty Images

Is it true you nicked some of your early equipment from David Bowie’s trucks outside the Hammersmith Odeon at the last Ziggy Stardust show, in 1973?

There’s definitely some truth in that. It wasn’t outside in trucks though – it was on the stage! They played two nights, and after the first night they left all the gear up, because they were playing there the next night. I knew the Hammersmith Odeon like the back of my hand, I used to bunk in there all the time. I was like the Phantom of Hammersmith Odeon.

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