What were the final words uttered by Johnny Rotten at the last show of the Sex Pistols U.S. tour in 1978?
- “Ever get the feeling you’ve been cheated?”
- “If you can put up with that, you can put up with anything”
- “Oh bollocks, why should I carry on?”
- “What was that that just hit me in the head? It didn’t hurt a bit!”
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“Ever get the feeling you’ve been cheated?”
If the world was a perfect place, this question would have read “What were the final words uttered by Johnny Rotten at the last Sex Pistols show ever?”
However, storybook ending are hard to come by, and the Sex Pistols are no exception. Despite closing the final U.S. show of their classic line-up (Johnny Rotten on vocals, Sid Vicious on bass, Steve Jones on guitar, and Paul Cook on drums) with this definitive quote, the Sex Pistols ultimately succumbed to the demand of their legacy and reunited in 1996 for the “Filthy Lucre Tour” (“lucre” being Latin for “money”, with the phrase “filthy lucre” originally coming from the Bible). Since Sid Vicious had died in 1979 from a heroin overdose (less than four months after being accused of stabbing his girlfriend Nancy Spungen to death in New York’s Chelsea Hotel), the reunion tour featured original Pistols bassist Glen Matlock, who had co-written 10 of the 12 songs on the band’s only album Never Mind the Bollocks, Here’s the Sex Pistols. The reunited Pistols would go on to perform again in 2002 (two shows for the “Sex Pistols Jubilee”), 2003 (the “Piss Off Tour”), 2007 (the “Holidays in the Sun” tour), and 2008 (the “Combine Harvester Tour”).
Regardless, if they had called it quits at the end of their 1978 U.S. tour, the band would have ridden off into the sunset with a final chapter worthy of the best fiction. After helping to birth punk (both the music and the attitude) in England, the band set their sites on the United States. Manager Malcom McLauren (whom later used the term “The Great Rock and Roll Swindle” to describe the Pistols) decided to bring the band over for a two-week tour of the States. Purposely bypassing the typical star making cities (New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Boston, Detroit, etc.), the Pistols were booked for only eight shows: Pittsburgh (which ended up being cancelled), Atlanta, Memphis, San Antonio, Baton Rouge, Dallas, Tulsa, and San Francisco. After ten days of dealing with rednecks, curiosity seekers, and true fans in the south, the Pistols finally went out with a bang at Winterland in San Francisco. As an appropriate encore, the band choose to play the Stooges song “No Fun”, which found Rotten sitting on the edge of the stage mumbling “This is no fun at all” before stating his final words and stalking off.
However, two decades later the Pistols still had one final “piss off” moment up their sleeve. Perhaps to make amends for the admitted greed of the reunion shows or just to show that they still felt like spitting on convention, when they were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2006 (along with Black Sabbath, Blondie, Lynyrd Skynyrd, and Miles Davis), instead of agreeing to perform at the ceremony like all inductees before them, the Pistols sent the Hall of Fame a fax, part of which was read at their induction by Rolling Stone publisher Jann Wenner:
“New York” by the Sex Pistols
“Holidays in the Sun” by the Sex Pistols
“No Fun” by the Sex Pistols
All the above songs are from the final show of the Sex Pistols first U.S. tour at Winterland in San Francisco, January 14, 1978.
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