Sex Pistols and Bill Grundy

[ct]

;D ;D ;D ;D

The bit above in brackets is now just as baffling as his arguement - I type p*nis and get 'the fireman' - with those sort of automated euphamisms perhaps he on the right forum after all? ;D

[Simon Winters]

So....to get back to the original question........does anyone know if the full sequence of the interview exists on any commercial VHS or DVD releases past or present?

[ct]

Short answer - No!

The longest available version if indeed it was an official US release is on the 'Buried Alive' documentary (SEX PISTOLS: NUMBER ONE) which includes very brief additional interview footage (a usually-edited-out Grundy aside) whilst the end credits are mostly intact. The longest available version on official UK release is probably the footage included in 'The Filth & The Fury' although this is creatively edited to include modern commentary but NO no commercial release has ever featured the entire interview as originally broadcast.

[Wright Blan]

Guest-ct said:

I think your arguements clear enough to everyone but it makes no sense at all. Firstly why single out these films as the above poster says, any film with a sequel is going to be Number Two??? Are you just latching on to the idea that one film is referred to as 'Number Two' say instead of just 2, which I don't think it is anyway. It's an artistic standard to label works in a series thus, and Jarman certainly considered himself a filmic artist. The only faint glimmer of an idea I can see in you're arguement is that your referring to the numbers in relation to the name of the band "Sex Pistols'(ie. the fireman) in which case you'd be better served joining a cultural studies forum or something similar. I really don't know why I got involved in this discussion- shall we drop this now?

Look, I just found it both funny and ironic that a band known for wallowing in the squallor artistically would two documentaries named "Sex Pistols: Number One" and "Sex Pistols:Number Two" Why? Because of the (at least to an American) double meaning of "Number One" and "number two" (which i'm not gonna explain again).

My original query was if "number one" and "number two" had similar connotations when it comes to crass slang in the UK as it does in the US. Why? Because I was curious if the use of both in the titles was a deliberate double entendre on the director's part, or just pure Jungian coincidence (a.k.a synchronicity, which my older than dirt dictionary does not listed.) Especially if he had originally titled the first documentary "Sex Pistols:Number One."

And do you know the worst thing about this whole mess? It took me two days to get the "Carl Gustav" joke! I've gotta start posting earlier in the night when all my mental functions work.

[Dan]

Guest-Wright said:

My original query was if "number one" and "number two" had similar connotations when it comes to crass slang in the UK as it does in the US.

Yes, that slang has the same meaning in the UK, although I don't recall hearing anyone ever say it.

[Simon Wells]

I chased this up a few years ago with the various parties for a (proposed) feature I was writing.
Okay, the whole programme, including local news, weather etc, does NOT exist. There was no real reason for LWT to keep the entire programme in 1976, despite the Pistols appearence. But, despite the (then)ephemeral nature of such things, anything that was considered to be of a "possible" litigious nature, was clipped and kept- hence the fact that the Pistols sequence still exists.

For the record, they actually appeared at the beginning of the programme as well-looking well pissed.

Whether Temple has a complete "off-air" copy of the show, well, you'd have to ask him