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Post by Stephen John Connett on Feb 10, 2016 11:47:55 GMT
Don't know if any one noticed the Sex Pistols appearance on Nationwide featured on the Music Moguls series on BBC 4 recently. It appeared to be a longer sequence of them performing 'Anarchy in the U.K.' than the version normally shown where the band play for a few seconds in between the band/McClaren interview with the 'square' interviewer. Does this mean the whole video performance of the song exists?
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Post by philcollins on Feb 14, 2016 21:02:45 GMT
From my memory of the original broadcast (and given that took place almost forty years ago and I was only thirteen at the time!), the song was interrupted by the comments of the presenters but was presumably played in full in the studio even though it wasn't broadcast in full. I've got a distinct memory of the song finishing and the band putting down their instruments and then the interview taking place - the clip on Music Moguls showed the end of the song which I haven't seen since the original broadcast (the producers apparently missed the use of the word 'pissed' judging by that clip!).
I imagine that the rest of the song ended up on the cutting room floor and is forever lost...the Pistols and punk was a very small scene at the time given that this was just after signing for EMI and several weeks prior to the Bill Grundy interview. I don't know how many editions of Nationwide survive from that era but it may be that we're very lucky that this one has - I'd always assumed that it had been lost (other than the segments that appeared in the Sex Pistols Number 1 film) given the lack of any rebroadcast of clips from it until relatively recently.
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Post by Kev Hunter on Feb 14, 2016 22:35:55 GMT
It seems likely that this edition of "Young Nation" exists complete, as parts of the Pistols' performance and interview turned up in "Top Of The Pops: The Story Of 1976" in April 2011, and other sections (the opening programme credits, banner hanging from Tower Bridge, etc) appeared in "Sounds Of The 70s 2: Anarchy On The BBC" in June 2012. Those elements have been put together here, with (I think) some pieces taken from Sex Pistols Number 1: (and spot Lionel Morton, ex-Four Pennies and Playschool with a nice hairdo!):
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Post by markandresen on Feb 15, 2016 17:06:34 GMT
"...On their way to being as big a cult as Mods and Rockers were in the Sixties. So, what do YOU think Little Ted?"
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Post by Stephen John Connett on Feb 29, 2016 7:37:02 GMT
Thanks for the info Guys and the YouTube clip
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Post by Stephen John Connett on Feb 29, 2016 7:52:22 GMT
It seems likely that this edition of "Young Nation" exists complete, as parts of the Pistols' performance and interview turned up in "Top Of The Pops: The Story Of 1976" in April 2011, and other sections (the opening programme credits, banner hanging from Tower Bridge, etc) appeared in "Sounds Of The 70s 2: Anarchy On The BBC" in June 2012. Those elements have been put together here, with (I think) some pieces taken from Sex Pistols Number 1: (and spot Lionel Morton, ex-Four Pennies and Playschool with a nice hairdo!): That bloke Giovanni Dadomo (?) at the end is proper smug isn't he?
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Post by markg on Mar 1, 2016 16:09:15 GMT
He seemed to be representing the "responsible face of Music Journalism" there, but he went on to front various punk bands, most notably The Snivelling Shits. Died in 1997 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Snivelling_Shits
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Post by philcollins on Mar 2, 2016 0:27:41 GMT
Giovanni Dadomo was a journalist for the music paper Sounds at the time. He wrote articles on the Sex Pistols (among other punk bands) both before and after the Nationwide interview including, I think, a review of the 100 Club punk festival and certainly a review of the Sex Pistols on Top of the Pops (the Pretty Vacant video).
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Post by Stephen John Connett on Mar 6, 2016 6:47:58 GMT
Thanks Phil, I will look out for those articles
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Post by philcollins on Mar 7, 2016 18:45:54 GMT
The Top of the Pops review is reproduced in the Sex Pistols File book.
I haven't managed to locate the 100 Club festival review yet but there's a reproduction here of a Sounds article from August 1977 where Giovanni Dadomo interviewed John Lydon during the Pistols' July 1977 tour of Scandinavia...
www.rockmine.com/Pistols/So27877.html
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Post by Stephen John Connett on Mar 19, 2016 8:05:44 GMT
Thanks, I'll have a look at that too
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