Bill Grundy Versus The Sex Pistols

This is an excerpt from a now infamous interview between Bill Grundy and The Sex Pistols on The Today programme.
I have to be honest and state that the swearing that caused such an uproar now seems quaint. I miss the days when the use of the word fuck was greeted with screams of anguish and press denunciation. Nowadays you would need to call somebody a cad or a bounder in order to raise any eyebrows.
It should be noted that although the Pistols were undoubtedly playing to the camera, they were also provoked by the snide Grundy.
I love the bit where the producer thought they would be interviewing Queen - if only he knew! That said, the life of Freddie Mercury reached levels that The Pistols could only dream of!

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[Slapbass13]

Fuck off.

[mrlee992]

SHUT UP!!!

SEX PISTOLS RULE!

[izzynone1]

What surprises me most is that there was such an outrage about the word "fuck" but none of the furore even mentioned Severin's swastika armband! In fact I'm surprised the BBC even allowed him on set with it.

The Pistols appeared on Granada TV a few months prior and Granada made such a scene about Jordan wearing the swastika armband. You'd think the BBC would be even more uptight than some tiny northern broadcaster.

[bodsnvimto]

Aaaah, happy days.

[shanksy67]

@torosalvajebcn lol nah

[torosalvajebcn]

So do you think Bill Grundy actually shagged that girl?

[angrysamoan666]

@godbluff68 No mate I seen pete hammill on celebrity out of here, he just goes on like this all swearing like a fish wife IMHO

Roolright stones

[jiggawoo]

30 seconds of abuse to listen to, from bill grundy : )

producer took the wrong side imo.

[godbluff68]

@KittyKattyYukiLvr-On the whole I agree. It is not so much that current music is bad but rather a narrow group of genres are pushed for all their worth. It is hard to imagine bands such as the Sex Pistols appearing on X-Factor. Instead we are deluged with a tidal wave of perky pop or wannabee RnB music. The music lacks aggression, passion and inventiveness. Mind you, the Sex Pistols were around at the time of Abba and Brotherhood of Man so maybe not that much has changed!

[KittyKattyYukiLvr]

@godbluff68 Well, some of it is bad music and some of it isn't to me...the problem is the way the media and our society works now allows bad music to flourish and a lot of good music to remain in the shadows. The current music scene is like Victoriana, the dynamic and interesting music is hiding, and I don't know if or when it will change.

[jhartshill]

Times change, if this was shown today it would probably still be controversial for a different reason - showing young people smoking on live TV, taboo now, normal then.

[godbluff68]

@KittyKattyYukiLvr Thanks for the comment. I was thinking about this the other day. I look around at the curent music scene at the moment and see nothing but regurgitated R&B, wannabe gangster hip hop and pap pop. I then think to myself that it was surely better in my day, but then recall what my parents and friends of parents thought about my devotion to The Specials and Joy Division (they were not impressed). Maybe it is an age thing - each to their own I suppose...