Dunno...I think that's what Malcolm McLaren would have liked everyone to believe. Weirdest was probably when British Airways nearly ran an ad campaign using "Theme" but that's sadly lost media now. Lydon also covered "Route 66" for a Mountain Dew advert, so he had form way before the butter ad.Although you could say that, even if he had a 'proper' career with PiL in the interim, he's really just gone back to his Sex Pistols roots, since they were launched as a cynical money-making exercise in the first place. So he was, in a sense, sold out before he was ever sold in.
If it's true that Desmond Dekker stormed off stage at some '90s festival when the audience sang back "Vitalite" to him, that's kind of amusing.
The person who told me he was there and saw it happen wasn't always the most, er, reliable narrator. And I've never seen another reference to it ever happening. But I like to believe, in this case, it's gospel.Haha, really? That's wonderful.
So if McLaren was only cynically pretending to be cynical, does that come round again to being earnest, like multiplying two negative numbers? Or does it constitute a new sort of hyper-cynicism?Dunno...I think that's what Malcolm McLaren would have liked everyone to believe.
The use of the song may have been out of his control. It's still an appropriate response by the crowdHaha, really? That's wonderful.
I'm sure he was out to sell SEX clobber in their first few months playing clubs, before it spiralled beyond his control - I meant more like his claims to have stage-managed a situationist hoax and swindled his way to the top are mostly horseshit.So if McLaren was only cynically pretending to be cynical, does that come round again to being earnest, like multiplying two negative numbers? Or does it constitute a new sort of hyper-cynicism?
Ah, I think I get it - retroactively trying to spin it as a bit of KLF-before-the-KLF 'culture jamming', something like that?I'm sure he was out to sell SEX clobber in their first few months playing clubs, before it spiralled beyond his control - I meant more like his claims to have stage-managed a situationist hoax and swindled his way to the top are mostly horseshit.
I reckon, yeah. Think he was winging it like the rest of them.Ah, I think I get it - retroactively trying to spin it as a bit of KLF-before-the-KLF 'culture jamming', something like that?
Agreed, though Citizen Fish runs them close.Chumbawamba is, without any doubt, the worst band to have ever existed in the history of bands.
I reckon, yeah. Think he was winging it like the rest of them.
Agreed, though Citizen Fish runs them close.
You can knock them down but they'll just get back up again.Chumbawamba is, without any doubt, the worst band to have ever existed in the history of bands.
I mean the fucking name gives it away. Jesus wept.
Couldn't you have decreed this before 'Pictures Of Starving Children' came out?Making a compelling case for perfidious Albion to be subjected to a ban on producing music for at least 100 years under the auspices of the proletarian dictatorship.
Couldn't you have decreed this before 'Pictures Of Starving Children' came out?