Brilliant! I was working in London and staying at a B&B (lyncroft Gardens) in Ealing the night that the original interview went out live; my work mate shouted me from our room to the telly room with, "come and look at these herberts" and I took to them immediately! Next morning I bought the newspaper "The Filth and the Fury" which I kept until very recently!
Yes they did, fantastically. I've watched this for the 1st time, although I've seen the interview a few times since it happened, I'm old enough to have seen it live when it happened. 👀 watching 👀 this brings all the "Fucking" joy of the sex pistols back to me, I still love them at my age of nearly 60. Perhaps i can start rebelling all over again, after I've watched and really loved watching this several more times. Thank F**k they helped times change. Margaret Thatcher was a pain 😫 then - but that's another story.
This has to be the best portrayal of Johnny Rotten I've ever seen! Kudos to the actor. And that Freddie backstory fanfic is a gem! Brilliance all around...never been done better, never will be.
That's Kevin Eldon. It's from his TV show. He's worked with all the best alternative TV satirists of the past--holy shit--nearly thirty years. Check out his work with Stewart Lee--Fist Of Fun, This Morning With Richard Not Judy and not to mention the many appearances with Chris Morris/Armando Ianucci over the years.
The guy who plays johnny rotten in this done such a good job.. I've watched every pistols movie and documentary but always thought no one can play rotten.. this dude has been the best version of rotten by a thousand miles..
Dude playing Rotten looks like dude who plays Glen Matlock in the Pistol series on Disney Plus. In fact... pretty sure it IS him! Anyway... the guy who plays Rotten IN THAT is incredible! You should check it. 😉
@@derin111 I agree, Friend... (In 'Sid and Nancy' Lydon was played by Andrew Schofield (a bloody good actor) and he TOTALLY DIDN'T GET IT!!! He played Johnny Rotten as a CHARICATURE. Lydon was actually rather shy, quite charming and not at all as much a rebel as McLaren made him out to be. Frankie Fox captures him perfectly!) Thanks for your response, Mate. xx SF
@@stevesandford1437 I remember seeing that interview live as a 13 year old in 1976. By 1977, as a 14 year old, I was going to Punk gigs in London myself! Hahaha!
“Has it ever struck you that life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quick you hardly catch it going?”― Tennessee Williams
After binge watching the new series on Hulu all night and having my expectations more than blown away by it, I will honestly say it’s a hard tie between this cast and the cast of Pistol everyone did their jobs perfectly!
@@lonlevinholler74 I have to agree with this shout. In this the trio seem far more like their real life characters (I even thought it was a younger McLaren playing himself for a second on his entrance). In Pistol, whilst it is good and these three central performances are excellent they seem more like characters in a play.
This is fucking great, Danny Boyle should take notes. The portrayals of John, Steve, Glenn, and Malcolm are amazing, where the hell did they find these actors?
The guy playing John should play him in a movie. What an accurate portrayal! Not sure about the depiction of Jones as a mindlessly violent thug though.
@@tonystraightedgexvx6214 I don't have big expectations for that film. Boyle probably isn't that big a fan so it'll probably be full of the half truths and misconceptions that have been peddled since the 70's that make real fans cringe. Hopefully not though. Hopefully he'll just draw heavily from Jones's book and leave all the punk cliches at the door.
@@draxlerchronicles5851 I read somewhere that Jones is heavily involved so should be good, also "i slept with joey ramone" book is being turned into movie written by joeys brother mickey
This is brilliant. Superb casting particularly for Grundy, Rotten and Maclaren. This is fun. Not strictly accurate but that was never the point. The thing with Freddie was pure invention. But it is good stuff.
It is true that Queen cancelled because of toothache - he'd managed to ghet an emergency appointment that clashed with the interview. I think it's safe to say the portrayal here is not how it happened though.
The infamous Bill Grundy - Sex Pistols interview was one of my favourite TV interviews of rock stars (along with the tense Hans Keller interview of Syd Barrett and Roger Waters around 10 years earlier.
@@thebadloser no I haven't so thanks for the recommendation. Another great interview is the one right after Bob Dylan went electric and was wearing dark shades, smoking non-stop, and being purposely enigmatic.
Well done to the kid who played Johnny, fucking spectacular performance They should be all playing the pistols in the new Danny Boyle show especially the kid as Johnny
especially the guy playing lydon this is the john i remember....cynical...not angry and this glenn matlock actually looks and acts like glenn unlike the guy in the series who acts like a bubble headed tosser
The version of this story from my folks was my uncle's and aunties couldn't stop laughing while my great granny and Grandparents gave the we are not amused look but since I wasn't born yet it sounds priceless.
Im a big fan and collector met glen and John in real life this was put together fairly well his career did fall apart after this interview some of this was not quite real after the interview it was susi and steve who answered the calls.malcolm told them they were idiots and they had blow it when the car arrived the police turned up and the pistols were giveing v signs as they drove.also bill grundy ironically turned up at a sex pistols convention 1980s and loved it .he did some tv afterwards but on low 🔑.
@@kingjellybeans7823 hi there yes my mate a big collector as well,said bill was friendly with everyone and was a great time.but I feel after watching the interview at the end he swears off screen saying oh shit watch after he says his goodnight how ironic that swore back at the pistols in away kind regards
This is the best!! I love that all the calls that were overflowing went to the green room and the band were picking up the calls.. you can only imagine what they were saying to people, i’m sure it’s even worse than this! This was all true! I read on Google that the truth of the incident was actually way crazier than fiction!
Sid played only on 2 demos belsen was a gas live he was okayish on some of the bootlegs I've got but glen was class on bass really good steve and paul were both great john was articulate and witty and had an unique voice. 26 months and they did more than most bands do in a lifetime don't get me wrong I like many genres sex pistols fave with adan and the ants and adam comeing a close second
This is the real deal as far as dramatizing The Sex Pistols. The actors even look and sound like them. All Urban Myths needed to do was produce four more chapters (Getting together - Anarchy Tour/bans - Record Companies/God Save The Queen/Record Bans/God Save The Queen Reaches Number One during Jubilee denied number one listing on the charts/Album Cover Court case - Last UK show/U.S Tour. Enough real drama happened than what will be shown in Disney's Pistol. Too bad. It could have been a great movie produced by Urban Myths that didn't need a big name producer to sell it. Jus sayin.
Ive 250 itens in my sex pistols collection, met glen and john see them on comback tours, ive lots of live recordings,ive got the proper bill grundy on my bootleg album so funny, this is very well put together.
And when they split virgin saw the profit of release a further 4 top ten hits and an album the swindle and a few more.glen played bass with sid on vocals and steve new guitar and rat scabies drums one night as the vicious white kids they were superb
They failed to put across that stuffy mainstream media types wouldn't have been fully aware at the time what a "punk group" was. This drama gave the impression at the beginning when Queen postponed that this "punk group" represented something they, even Grundy was familiar with when quite clearly in 1976 the Pistols would have been their first experience of this latest youth phenomenon.
This is Pemberton at his best , I love these urban myths,ESP the Midge Ure Vs Geldoff rant , it's funny as fxxxx,, wait too Freddie giving Bono a head massage Highly recommended LIVE AID URBAN MYTHS
What A " Brilliant Re Creation " Of The Events leading Up To The Grundy Interview!! Bill Grundy Was Very Definitely " Hoisted By His Own Petard " !! With His Arrogance " Drunk Or Otherwise " Shattered Into Small Pieces " !!! From Adrian Browne 1965
This was a an AWESOME accidental find on UA-cam. Thank you for recreating an epic moment in rockNroll history.
@UNLVED1 And British TV's most requested clip of all time
I don't think it was THAT bad. Not great but not that bad.
Fun fact: This is why we have Ofcom nowadays.
Brilliant! I was working in London and staying at a B&B (lyncroft Gardens) in Ealing the night that the original interview went out live; my work mate shouted me from our room to the telly room with, "come and look at these herberts" and I took to them immediately! Next morning I bought the newspaper "The Filth and the Fury" which I kept until very recently!
Did you sell the newspaper copy for a hefty amount?
Amazing re-enactment of the actual interview!
They got the words and mannerisms of the original 76 interview perfect.
I think there more menacing than the original.
@@paulfrost8895 Agreed.
Yes they did, fantastically. I've watched this for the 1st time, although I've seen the interview a few times since it happened, I'm old enough to have seen it live when it happened. 👀 watching 👀 this brings all the "Fucking" joy of the sex pistols back to me, I still love them at my age of nearly 60. Perhaps i can start rebelling all over again, after I've watched and really loved watching this several more times. Thank F**k they helped times change. Margaret Thatcher was a pain 😫 then - but that's another story.
@@chrisboyslimuk5186 Agreed mate.
I bet it's better than Pistol is gonna be on FX.
This has to be the best portrayal of Johnny Rotten I've ever seen! Kudos to the actor.
And that Freddie backstory fanfic is a gem!
Brilliance all around...never been done better, never will be.
Really?
Really? I thought it was awful
The six-part TV series Pistol based on Steve Jones autobiography is epic too.
@@mjh5437 I’ve seen that one it was brilliant
Whoever plays Lydon has smashed it. Sounds exactly like him and looks pretty similar.
Jamie Oliver did a smashing job playing Steve Jones, too
Yeah he smashed it with John,also geezer playing mclaren was cool.
@@glenmiles6279 Yeah he was pretty good too
Came down to say exactly the same thing. Lydon and Mclaren were spot on...
That's Kevin Eldon. It's from his TV show. He's worked with all the best alternative TV satirists of the past--holy shit--nearly thirty years. Check out his work with Stewart Lee--Fist Of Fun, This Morning With Richard Not Judy and not to mention the many appearances with Chris Morris/Armando Ianucci over the years.
Damn this is good, more of this please. Btw the guy who played Rotten should get an Oscar for best actor.
I honestly can't get over how incredible the casting is in these shows. Not to mention the superb acting and writing.
The acting is terrible. Completely overacted.
I doubt if half those extra scenes happend for real.
These are in some respect a alternative to legendary "The comic strip presents "
Really? It was not that bad.
The guy who plays johnny rotten in this done such a good job.. I've watched every pistols movie and documentary but always thought no one can play rotten.. this dude has been the best version of rotten by a thousand miles..
Dude playing Rotten looks like dude who plays Glen Matlock in the Pistol series on Disney Plus. In fact... pretty sure it IS him!
Anyway... the guy who plays Rotten IN THAT is incredible! You should check it. 😉
I thought he was terrible aha, spoke a bit like him and thats about it.
My mate Frankie plays jonny rotten, what a legend.
He was really good, a lot better than others who've played Lydon. The bloke playing Malcolm was spot-on too... xx SF
Can Frankie gain 15 stone for the sequel?
He was brilliant as Lydon.
@@derin111 I agree, Friend... (In 'Sid and Nancy' Lydon was played by Andrew Schofield (a bloody good actor) and he TOTALLY DIDN'T GET IT!!! He played Johnny Rotten as a CHARICATURE. Lydon was actually rather shy, quite charming and not at all as much a rebel as McLaren made him out to be. Frankie Fox captures him perfectly!) Thanks for your response, Mate. xx SF
@@stevesandford1437 I remember seeing that interview live as a 13 year old in 1976. By 1977, as a 14 year old, I was going to Punk gigs in London myself! Hahaha!
“Thank you for having us”
“Has it ever struck you that life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quick you hardly catch it going?”― Tennessee Williams
I'm here because I heard Kayvan Novak plays Freddie Mercury. Was not disappointed!
Brains from Thunderbirds are go.
After binge watching the new series on Hulu all night and having my expectations more than blown away by it, I will honestly say it’s a hard tie between this cast and the cast of Pistol everyone did their jobs perfectly!
The Johnny, Steve & Malcolm on this were way better
@@lonlevinholler74 I have to agree with this shout. In this the trio seem far more like their real life characters (I even thought it was a younger McLaren playing himself for a second on his entrance). In Pistol, whilst it is good and these three central performances are excellent they seem more like characters in a play.
The moment when Malcolm realises how good it was for them
This is fucking great, Danny Boyle should take notes. The portrayals of John, Steve, Glenn, and Malcolm are amazing, where the hell did they find these actors?
And what about Paul?
@@liamn.watson4867 Not bad, just hard to tell since he hardly says a word.
But really, the dude who plays Malcolm deserves whatever the British television version of an Oscar is
The guy who played mclaren did not get him down at all ,piss poor generally
Danny boyles film will be just as dumb & Embarrassing as sid & Nancy was i suspect.
The guy playing John should play him in a movie. What an accurate portrayal!
Not sure about the depiction of Jones as a mindlessly violent thug though.
agreed, Danny Boyle take note, Jonesys character was way off, Matlock and McClaren ok i guess
Or Matlock! Was he ever that bad I thought it was basically Sid who acted like that!
@@tonystraightedgexvx6214 I don't have big expectations for that film. Boyle probably isn't that big a fan so it'll probably be full of the half truths and misconceptions that have been peddled since the 70's that make real fans cringe.
Hopefully not though. Hopefully he'll just draw heavily from Jones's book and leave all the punk cliches at the door.
@@draxlerchronicles5851 I read somewhere that Jones is heavily involved so should be good, also "i slept with joey ramone" book is being turned into movie written by joeys brother mickey
@@draxlerchronicles5851 I'm guessing it'll be an embarrassing mess on par with the "unwatchable & truly awful Sid & nancy".
Great job uploading this. I really like this episode. Thanks.
I've never seen this. Thanks for uploading!
This is cool! The actor playing Johnny is incredible.
Thank you so much for the upload.. seen this on TV and thought it was terrific..
Jones was clearly listening to "DEREK & CLIVE" (Peter Cook & Dudley Moore) the album had just been released late that year and Jones was reciting it 😀
'wot a rotter'
The guy playing Lydon is excellent. Great take of Lydon's Mannerisms. Brilliant documentary. Really Good
Excellent I never knew this existed! Great acting
The best thing I've seen for ages. I saw it on sky arts a few weeks ago and I've watched this loadsa times on UA-cam
This is brilliant. Superb casting particularly for Grundy, Rotten and Maclaren.
This is fun. Not strictly accurate but that was never the point. The thing with Freddie was pure invention. But it is good stuff.
It is true that Queen cancelled because of toothache - he'd managed to ghet an emergency appointment that clashed with the interview. I think it's safe to say the portrayal here is not how it happened though.
This has been saved straight to my favourites 😂
The guy playing Malcom is great!
Hilarious and brilliantly done.
The infamous Bill Grundy - Sex Pistols interview was one of my favourite TV interviews of rock stars (along with the tense Hans Keller interview of Syd Barrett and Roger Waters around 10 years earlier.
Have you seen the Lou Reed Australian press conference from 1973? It's on UA-cam and absolutely priceless!
@@thebadloser no I haven't so thanks for the recommendation. Another great interview is the one right after Bob Dylan went electric and was wearing dark shades, smoking non-stop, and being purposely enigmatic.
Well done to the kid who played Johnny, fucking spectacular performance
They should be all playing the pistols in the new Danny Boyle show especially the kid as Johnny
After watching Pistol I totally agree with you
@@lonlevinholler74 🙏🏻🔥🙏🏻🔥🙏🏻🔥
11:33 I laughed harder than I should have 🤣🤣🤣 I must say for a short film this is an almost spotless recreation In my view.
Very good. I remember actually seeing it when transmitted. I have never laughed so much in my life. I was 9 years old.
I'm so glad I found this, just came to see Maisie Adam but enjoyed the whole of it enormously
Woah!! Im glad i found this, i watched this happen on that very night, brilliant and epic moment in British rock and roll history, thank you
I've watched every "Urban Myths" show I could find, but this is still the best by a long shot.
THAT was hilarious and brilliant!.....hahaha...pity it wasn't longer!
Found this by accident and it is absolutely STUNNING. Haven’t laughed so much in years!!
This is brilliant!!! Why have I only just found the this? Great acting all round👍🇬🇧
Roy Orbison joke-anecdote!!! This is amazeballs!
They should've gotten everyone in this to play the parts on FX Pistol
especially the guy playing lydon
this is the john i remember....cynical...not angry
and this glenn matlock actually looks and acts like glenn
unlike the guy in the series who acts like a bubble headed tosser
The version of this story from my folks was my uncle's and aunties couldn't stop laughing while my great granny and Grandparents gave the we are not amused look but since I wasn't born yet it sounds priceless.
"I don't do adverts"
Haha, I see what you did there you gits.
what did they do?
@@mtvso8000 In the 2010s, Lydon became the face of Countrylife butter.
Only did the ads to get pil back on the road
"I don't do adverts!" Fast forward thirty years...
Im a big fan and collector met glen and John in real life this was put together fairly well his career did fall apart after this interview some of this was not quite real after the interview it was susi and steve who answered the calls.malcolm told them they were idiots and they had blow it when the car arrived the police turned up and the pistols were giveing v signs as they drove.also bill grundy ironically turned up at a sex pistols convention 1980s and loved it .he did some tv afterwards but on low 🔑.
That's great knowing that grundy turned up at a Sex Pistols Convention. Mad stuff
@@kingjellybeans7823 hi there yes my mate a big collector as well,said bill was friendly with everyone and was a great time.but I feel after watching the interview at the end he swears off screen saying oh shit watch after he says his goodnight how ironic that swore back at the pistols in away kind regards
This is the best!! I love that all the calls that were overflowing went to the green room and the band were picking up the calls.. you can only imagine what they were saying to people, i’m sure it’s even worse than this! This was all true! I read on Google that the truth of the incident was actually way crazier than fiction!
Hits the spot! Cannot help but titter at the production company name, Spelthorne Television (West Staines Massive - RESPECT).
Dude playing Rotten looks like dude who plays Glen Matlock in the Pistol series on Disney Plus. In fact... pretty sure it IS him!
The phone calls in the green room...🤣 ROTFLMFAO!
"They all merge after a while ."🤣
Don’t talk to the mad one....
Hahaha!
That bit was a gem
The attention to detail is very good.
Great!
That was so funny. Great acting by actor being Johnny R. Spot on.
The guy playing Johnny is spot on, can't believe it.
No acne though....
Far better than pistol disney channel, ok its not bad, but this is very good short and sweet.
Sid played only on 2 demos belsen was a gas live he was okayish on some of the bootlegs I've got but glen was class on bass really good steve and paul were both great john was articulate and witty and had an unique voice. 26 months and they did more than most bands do in a lifetime don't get me wrong I like many genres sex pistols fave with adan and the ants and adam comeing a close second
I love this
This is the best thing to ever exist!
is this exerpts from what show or film or is this the entire show and or film please?
Brilliant
This is the real deal as far as dramatizing The Sex Pistols. The actors even look and sound like them. All Urban Myths needed to do was produce four more chapters (Getting together - Anarchy Tour/bans - Record Companies/God Save The Queen/Record Bans/God Save The Queen Reaches Number One during Jubilee denied number one listing on the charts/Album Cover Court case - Last UK show/U.S Tour. Enough real drama happened than what will be shown in Disney's Pistol. Too bad. It could have been a great movie produced by Urban Myths that didn't need a big name producer to sell it. Jus sayin.
I fucking love this!
This is great
The actor playing Rotten was on point.
God, I wish I could have seen them live!
"Don't talk to the mad one..."😂😂😂😂
Fun fact: the guy playing Steve Jones also played Mitchell in Bad Education
Though I recognise him
3:10 lovely drum-roll missed by actor.
This was what the pistols should have Ben.At least the cast absolutely brilliant
throughly enjoyed.
just brilliant!
cheers!
✌🏻🇦🇺
*"what's wrong with ... Hey ... Jeff?"* 😂🤣
@Practicalicalicalica *not the nice, clean Rolling Rocks*
brilliant!!
Ive 250 itens in my sex pistols collection, met glen and john see them on comback tours, ive lots of live recordings,ive got the proper bill grundy on my bootleg album so funny, this is very well put together.
Great nostalgic soundtrack
"WOOF!
That was a fire, not a dog."
The night the air turned blue......
Eric Idle as the officer
this is so much better than the disney series
"Woof!.that's a fire not a dog"
That was really neat
Wait, is this part of a bigger show or series?
An episode from a series.
"I'm an officer of the law........ So i told them to Fuck Off".
Hahaha hilarious and entertaining a true magical moment in the history of cool bands...well acted especially by the guy playing Johny Rotten.
And when they split virgin saw the profit of release a further 4 top ten hits and an album the swindle and a few more.glen played bass with sid on vocals and steve new guitar and rat scabies drums one night as the vicious white kids they were superb
They failed to put across that stuffy mainstream media types wouldn't have been fully aware at the time what a "punk group" was. This drama gave the impression at the beginning when Queen postponed that this "punk group" represented something they, even Grundy was familiar with when quite clearly in 1976 the Pistols would have been their first experience of this latest youth phenomenon.
This interview is when I learned the word rotter :)
This is Pemberton at his best , I love these urban myths,ESP the Midge Ure Vs Geldoff rant , it's funny as fxxxx,, wait too Freddie giving Bono a head massage
Highly recommended LIVE AID URBAN MYTHS
5:31 It was a night out, they were going to remember, for a very long time...
This version of pretty vacant was after glen left steve played bass on it and guitar 🎸
That was the best portrayal of John Lydon!
bravo
Steve Pemberton as grundy. 😂😂😂
What A " Brilliant Re Creation " Of The Events leading Up To The Grundy Interview!! Bill Grundy Was Very Definitely " Hoisted By His Own Petard " !! With His Arrogance " Drunk Or Otherwise " Shattered Into Small Pieces " !!! From Adrian Browne 1965
" Thanks For Your Support " re My Pistols/ Grundy Post !! " Take Care " !!! From Adrian Browne 1965
Thanks 4 Your Support re My Pistols/ Grundy Post ! Take Care From Adrian 1965
Thanks 4 Your Support re My Pistols/ Grundy Post ! " Take Care " !! From Adrian Browne 1965
The good old days when you could be suggestive to women without getting arrested and put on the sex offenders register.
When TV was worth watching. Brilliant these guys nailed it.😂
Who's here for Siouxie?
I mean.....its not a documentary?
“I don’t do adverts”... unless it’s for butter.. ☺️
that's the joke
Seeing as he did that to pay heavy medical bills I’m giving him a pass.
@@PaulWilliams66 utter bollocks, he says that now due to the backlash, hes always been a raging hypocrite who plays the drama card when called out
@@PaulWilliams66for his late wife?
Sorry meant adam and the ants spelling error
Where ?
-Freddie Mercury's got toothache...
-Well he's 80 percent teeth poor sod.