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Posted Nov 7 at 7:01 PM

 
Ah, another great rock and roll moment....The Sex Pistols infamous interview with Bill Grundy on the "Today" Show, UK, '76.
 
The clip can be found on YouTube...the last time I checked.....
 
 
Bill Grundy (Host): Safety pins? Chains around the neck? And that's just it fellas, yeah yeah. Eh...?  I mean, it is just the fellas -- yeah.
 
Glen Matlock (Pistols bassist) : (reading Grundy's cue cards) 'They are punk rockers, the new craze, they tell me.'
 
Grundy: They are punk rockers, the new craze, they tell me. Their heroes, not the nice clean Rolling Stones - you see, they are as drunk as I am. They are clean by comparison. They are a group called the Sex Pistols - and I am surrounded now by all of them! So just let us see the Sex Pistols in action!  Come on, chucks...
 
The beginning of a video for "Anarchy In The UK" is shown....
 
Grundy: I'm told that that group have received 40,000 from a record company. Doesn't that seem slightly opposed to their anti-materialistic way of life?
 
Matlock: No, the more the merrier.
 
Grundy: Really?
 
Matlock: Oh yeah.
 
Grundy: Well, tell me more then -
 
Steve Jones (Pistols guitarist) : We've fucking spent it, ain't we?
 
Grundy: I don't know, have you?
 
Matlock: Yep, it's all gone, down the boozer -
 
Grundy: Really? Good Lord -
 
Matlock: Golly gosh -
 
Grundy: Now I want to know one thing.....
 
Matlock: What?
 
Grundy: Are you serious or are you just making things up?
 
Matlock: No, it's -
 
Grundy: Really?
 
Matlock: Yeah -
 
Grundy: But I mean about what you're doing?
 
Matlock: Oh yeah.
 
Grundy: You are serious?
 
Matlock: Mmm.
 
Grundy: Beethoven, Mozart, Bach and Brahms have all died -
 
Johnny Rotten (Pistols vocalist) - Oh God, they're heroes of ours, ain't they?
 
Grundy: Really? What? What are you saying, sir?
 
Rotten: They're such wonderful people -
 
Grundy: Are they?
 
Rotten: Oh yes! They really turn us on.
 
Grundy: Well suppose they turn other people on -
 
Rotten: That's just their tough shit.
 
Grundy: It's what?
 
Rotten: Nothing, a rude word -- next question.
 
Grundy: No, no. What was the rude word?
 
Rotten: Shit.
 
Grundy: Was it really? Good God, you frighten me to death.
 
Rotten: Oh all right, Siegfried -
 
Grundy: What about you girls behind?
 
Matlock: He's like yer dad, inni? This geezer -
 
Grundy: Are you worried or just enjoying yourself?
 
Matlock: Or yer granddad -
 
Siouxsie Sioux ( eventual Banshees vocalist, standing behind the Pistols): Enjoying myself.
 
Grundy: Are you?
 
Sioux: Yeah.
 
Grundy: That's what I thought you were doing.
 
Sioux: I always wanted to meet you.
 
Grundy: Did you really?
 
Sioux: Yeah.
 
Grundy: We'll meet afterwards then, shall we?
 
Steve Jones (Pistols guitarist): You dirty sod! You dirty old man!
 
Grundy: Well, keep going, chief, keep going. Go on, you've got another five seconds, say something outrageous -
 
Jones: You dirty bastard!
 
Grundy: Go on, again.
 
Jones: You dirty fucker!
 
Grundy: What a clever boy!
 
Jones: What a fucking rotter!
 
Grundy: Well, that's it for tonight. The other rocker Eammon -
 
Matlock: Eammon!
 
Grundy: I'm saying nothing else about him, will be back tomorrow. I'll be seeing you soon -- (to the Pistols) I hope I'm not be seeing you again. From me though, goodnight!
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