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John Lydon slams Sex Pistols for performing 'karaoke' versions of classic songs

John Lydon has hit out at his former Sex Pistols bandmates for continuing to perform the punk group's legendary hits.

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"Abba were in matching white fur coats, looking like polar bears. Sid went running over. ‘Abba!’ Then he vomited. They were horrified." John Lydon on the day Abba met the Sex Pistols

The Sex Pistols were huge fans of Abba. Abba may not have been huge fans of the Sex Pistols

Louder

“Let them wallow in Walt Disney woke expectations”: John Lydon’s message to the reformed Sex Pistols

“I am the Pistols, and they’re not,” he says

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"I am the Pistols, and they’re not.” John Lydon is getting ever more salty about the success and acclaim currently being enjoyed by his revitalised former Sex Pistols bandmates

For a man who supposedly moved on from the Sex Pistols decades ago, John Lydon isn't half spending a lot of time talking about the Sex Pistols

Louder

John Lydon says he will never return to ‘woke’ Sex Pistols

The singer hit out at his previous band’s ‘dirty deeds’

The Independent UK

"Touring Australia with the Sex Pistols was horrendous. Seeing the audience doing Nazi salutes really wore me down, and Johnny Rotten didn’t say anything." Skunk Anansie's Skin recalls "violent" 1996 tour with the Sex Pistols

For Britrock stars Skunk Anansie, joining the Sex Pistols Filthy Lucre reunion tour was one of the worst experiences of their lives

Metal Hammer

“I nicked some cymbals, the bass player’s amp head and some microphones. I got Bowie’s microphone with his lipstick on it!” On July 3, 1973, David Bowie retired Ziggy Stardust – that same day, Steve Jones stole his equipment

Turns out the Sex Pistols guitarist had a lucrative “side hustle” as a gear thief...

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"I got Bowie’s microphone with his lipstick on it!" Sex Pistols' Steve Jones on stealing David Bowie's musical equipment from a London stage on the night before the final Ziggy Stardust performance

Before he became the guitarist for the Sex Pistols, Steve Jones was an accomplished thief, as David Bowie was to discover to his cost

Louder

Sex Pistols star once confessed to stealing from David Bowie: ‘He thought it was funny’

‘I was like the Phantom of Hammersmith Odeon,’ musician said

The Independent UK

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

The punk guitarist on the ideal length of gigs, stealing from David Bowie’s trucks and dealing with an ornery Jerry Lee Lewis

The Guardian - AU

In Pictures: The week in Culture

If a picture paints a thousand words... Here’s all you need to know or may have missed about this past week in Culture (24-28 March 2025).

Euronews

Sex Pistols + Frank Carter announce US tour

The Sex Pistols and Frank Carter have announced a 13-date North American tour for later this year.

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"Everybody needs this band right now. America is screaming out for a band like the Sex Pistols." Sex Pistols, with Frank Carter, announce first North American tour in over two decades, starting at a venue where they had pig hooves thrown at them in 1978

America, prepare yourselves for the return of the world's greatest punk band

Metal Hammer

The Sex Pistols announce first North American tour in 2 decades

The Sex Pistols will tour North America for the first time since 2003 this fall

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Sex Pistols at the Royal Albert Hall review: 'excitement threatening to explode'

4/5 The Teenage Cancer Trust gigs kick off with Sex Pistols storming the venerable Hall with Frank Carter replacing John Lydon up top

Evening Standard

Sex Pistols delight fans at Royal Albert Hall gig for Teenage Cancer Trust

It came as the first in a series of gigs raising money for the cancer charity

MusicRadar

"How many of you were here the first time around?": The Sex Pistols are back at the 100 Club after nearly 50 years

Band play the Royal Albert Hall tonight

The Guardian - UK

The Sex Pistols rock London with first gig at 100 Club in 50 years

Band members were joined on stage by former Gallows frontman Frank Carter as stars and fans welcomed their return

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Louder

“It’s a pleasure and a privilege to be here with these legends tonight.” Frank Carter leads the Sex Pistols for 'secret' celebratory return to London's iconic 100 Club

Billed as 'The SPOTS', punk legends thrill fans old and new at legendary London club that helped birth punk

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The Cure's Robert Smith to curate 2026 Teenage Cancer Trust concerts

Robert Smith has landed a new role as curator of the Teenage Cancer Trust gigs in 2026.

The Guardian - UK

‘Johnny Rotten tore my record off the deck’: the superfan at the centre of disco and punk

Alan Jones somehow straddled the riotous noise of the Sex Pistols, the fetishism of Vivienne Westwood and the hedonism of disco and gay clubs. A new book tells his story

The Guardian - UK

‘Everyone knew who he was’: James Hamilton, the ‘eccentric aristo’ who catalysed British club culture

He outed Norman Cook as Fatboy Slim, imported turntablism and made BPM a staple of dance journalism. Pete Tong and Gilles Peterson remember a pivotal figure

The Guardian - UK

Brian James obituary

Guitarist with the punk band the Damned who wrote many of their songs, including their first single, New Rose

Louder

"He built a campfire in the middle of his hotel room. It was kinda cute…" The mad, bad and dangerously daft story of The Damned

A fast history of punk legends The Damned. Includes: spit, vomit, cider, sulphate, haunted mansions, and "serious amounts of lunacy".

Louder

“The audience was throwing everything from bottles to rats to pig’s ears at the stage." The Sex Pistols look back on their wild, dangerously out-of-control and ultimately doomed first US tour

"We were thrown into the lion’s den and it was a pretty dark time."

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