The Sex Pistols’ infamous live TV F word rant was down to stolen Blue Nun wine, bassist Glen Matlock says. He revealed guitarist Steve Jones downed a bottle of the cheap German plonk in the dressing room before going on Bill Grundy’s ITV Today in 1976.
The F word had only been said twice on TV before and the outcry sparked front-page headlines including the Mirror’s The Filthy and the Fury.
Matlock told the Rockonteurs podcast: “We got ushered into the Green Room and Steve Jones is in and out like Flynn, with something under his coat. “Me, John[Lydon], Paul [Cook]and Malcolm [McLaren] go in there and find those little cans of Heineken...
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