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Add to My Profile | More Videos...................................................... ........................................................God Save The Queen, The Sex Pistols. How the song and the band had an effect on me as a kid and later in life as a middle aged dad. It all started in 1977 on the Queen's Silver Jubilee I was 12 years old living on a council housing estate in Seaham in Co/Durham. My first memory of that day was the bunting strung across the street and the long table stretched out across the road it seemed to go on for ever. I remember it been coverd with cups of orange juice sandwiches and cakes. Everyone wearing union jack hats and having a good time and games played by parents as well as the kids. The music playing from someones old record player droned on and on spitting out the same old 70s crap like the Baycity Rollers and Shawaddywaddy. I'd heard of the Sex Pistols mainly from others talking about them and had seen older boys dressed in punk style clothes, spiky hair chains wrapped around their necks, safety pins keeping clothes together and stuck into their shoes. I remember thinking that I would like to look like that. It was a long day the party continued well into the evening when I remember going into the house and the news being on the T.V. showing The Sex Pistols on a boat going up the River Thames singing God Save The Queen. My thoughts were WOW I had never seen anything like this before, the hairs on my arms stood up i felt sheer excitement at what I was seeing and hearing, the blistering sounds of Steve Jones guitar and Johnny Rotten's voice screeching out . That was it I was hooked I was going to be a Punk, I went directly to my mams sewing box and took out every safety pin in there I grabbed my baseball boots and pinned every single one to them. Just then I remember very clearly my mam walking through the door looking horrifed, I proudly told my mam I was now a punk much to her dismay. It was shorly after this day that I discovered that John Peel was playing punk on his radio 1 show I remember it being late as my mam would be shouting at me to turn it off as I should be asleep.The more I heard the more excited I became I was desperate to have my own record but money was tight . It was months, probably nearly a year later after doing lots of saving I had managed to save enough money to buy my first LP Never Mind The Bollocks Heres The Sex Pistols. Major arguments would break out in the house with both mam and Dad threatening to take it fom me unless I turned it down, but I took little or no notice and played it as loud as I could. I played it constantly for about 4 years, only stopping really because it was so worn out and Punk had fizzled out. My mam finally thinking thank God he's grown out of it!!! Little did she know that nearly thirty years later at the age of 42, a truck driver, and my ring tone is God SaveThe Queen, I have a tattoo on my right arm of Jamie Reid's art work which was the cover of the record showing the Queen's head with the words God save the Queen and The Sex Pistols writen across her face. Could that be all! well no, I am the singer of a Sex Pistols cover band. The initial effects of hearing that song 30 years ago still has the same effect on me today I think at times that I am back to were it all started, I've gone full circle.God save the Queen (as read on The Jeremy Vine Show on B.B.C. Radio 2, may 25th 2007........................................................ ............................................................ ............................................................ ............................................................ ............................................................ .......................................We are from Seaham in County Durham, England. we cover all John Lydon ere Sex Pistols songs and one or two other singers the Sex Pistols had. We dont call ourselves a tribute band, as we could never get the look, not at our age !!!! We just like to go out and do the songs the best we can. We would like to thank Mike Jinx from Durham F.M. for playing our demo cd on his show. You can catch Mike's show every Sunday night at 7.00PM (U.K. Time) at 102.8 F.M. & 106.8 F.M. or goto www.durhamfm.net and listen to him there from anywhere in the world !!!! Please have a listen to our songs and let us know what you think ! All comments welcome.Check out our gig list, we could be playing near you !Thank you for looking/listening and please come back again....Next Pistols.
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