Pistols Half Cocked
- 14 Oct 07, 11:31 PM
For the best part of a week, those bold boys at the NME have been urging us to download a copy of the Sex Pistols tune, ‘God Save The Queen’. Their mission has been to give the old punk combo a number one record, something that was cruelly taken from them back in 1977 when Rod Stewart sat astride the charts like a satin-trousered titan. Many of us believed that The Establishment had fixed it in the year of Ma'm’s Jubilee, but do we care enough to rectify things after 30 years?
Maybe not. While NME rounded up The Beastie Boys, The Kooks and Kate Nash into their rolling campaign, the record made a rather undignified arrival at number 42. Could it be that we all own the tune anyway, or simply that we don’t care enough for a self-regarding media story?
Mind you, I did enjoy the experience of Vivienne Westwood on The Sunday Edition this morning, regally ginger and spouting declarations about free speech, despotic regulations and the nation’s decline. Dame Viv roared about our bad reading habits and I half expected her to produce a wooden spoon, the better to beat some discipline into the fellow panellists. Tony Benn looked rather intimidated. Which was probably the point.
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Every time I see Vivienne Westwood, I get a shock! She is SO establishment! She always reminds me of Glenda Jackson playing Elizabeth 1! I think my red hair is a better colour than hers! Considering I usually buy the cheapest and brightest in the shop! Maybe that becomes of too much money and not enough sense! Viv
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I'm not sure if she's intensely conservative or so radical that she merely seems that way. Either way, I reckon Viv is great value. What's Malcolm McLaren doing this weather?
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