![]() ![]() His cockney voice, however, is intact and makes him sound not a day out of London. Jones spoke to us from his Los Angeles home, where he came to seek sunlight nearly 40 years ago. Though the Pistols were icons of the unorganized anti-establishment league, to celebrate Queen Elizabeth's Platinum Jubilee the group released a commemorative NFT, and to capitalize on the momentum of the show, Universal recently released Sex Pistols: The Original Recordings, a 20-song collection that includes classics from Bollocks such as “Anarchy in the U.K.,” B-Sides and covers. The story of the Sex Pistols has been told through various vantage points, but the show is based on Jones' memoir Lonely Boy: Tales From a Sex Pistol, in which he recounts a life of childhood abuse, near lifelong illiteracy and sex addiction. ![]() ![]() In the past few weeks, however, Jones has become the protagonist in the Sex Pistols story through Pistol, a limited six-episode series directed by Danny Boyle. The burning mania of frontman Johnny Rotten, the artwork of seminal album Never Mind the Bollocks and the fatal pairing of Sid and Nancy - all of it comes to mind before the thought of Sex Pistols guitarist and founder Steve Jones. He’s heard them plenty, since before anyone else.įor the rest of us, the group’s name alone unwraps a pin-held patchwork of images that encapsulate an era and an entire movement. Steve Jones would probaby rather listen to the sound of nails on a chalkboard, on a loop, than to the Sex Pistols. ![]()
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