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The Sex Pistols play at a "Valentine's Ball" in the studio of sculptor and performance artist Andrew Logan, Butler's Wharf, London, England, UK, Europe.Full article:
Andrew Logan : Malcolm phoned up and asked if I knew of anywhere down by the river, because he said he had these boys - he called them ‘the boys’ - he wanted to launch somewhere, and he wanted to launch them somewhere interesting. And an Andrew Logan party was interesting. It was the thing to do then. I said, ‘Fine, come along then’, and they finally played at my Valentine’s Day party. They weren’t the main attraction, they were just a group that played.
Jordan : The Sex Pistols started up, and they didn’t know what hit them. Andrew was freaking out, actually, because it was like anarchy had been transported into his little paradise. And he hadn’t realised what was going on there.
Someone from New Musical Express arrived and Malcolm came rushing up to me and said, ‘Jords … the enemy is here! They’ve actually turned up. We’ve got to do something that will create a scuffle, a story.’ And I said, ‘Well, what?’ And he said, ‘Well, why don’t you go up there and take your clothes off?’ I said, ‘Oh, come on, Malcolm.’ And he said, ‘No, I’m serious.’
He was so excited, desperate to get some scam going, but I was determined, and I told him no, I wouldn’t do it. And he bugged me again, so I finally told him that if John pulls me on-stage, if John takes my clothes off, I’ll do it.
But John wasn’t very, uh, brave. John liked things to be set up for him, wasn’t great at instigating it, so Malcolm had a word with him - hand signals and stuff - and in the middle of Iggy Pop’s No Fun, John broke all the zips on my leotard, which was a real piss-off. I was so fed up about that, I just took the back off it and went zoom.
Mick Jones (London S.S., The Clash) : You knew straight away that was it, and this was what it was going to be like from now on. It was a new scene, new values - so different from what had happened before. A bit dangerous.
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Jordan : The Sex Pistols started up, and they didn’t know what hit them. Andrew was freaking out, actually, because it was like anarchy had been transported into his little paradise. And he hadn’t realised what was going on there.
Someone from New Musical Express arrived and Malcolm came rushing up to me and said, ‘Jords … the enemy is here! They’ve actually turned up. We’ve got to do something that will create a scuffle, a story.’ And I said, ‘Well, what?’ And he said, ‘Well, why don’t you go up there and take your clothes off?’ I said, ‘Oh, come on, Malcolm.’ And he said, ‘No, I’m serious.’
He was so excited, desperate to get some scam going, but I was determined, and I told him no, I wouldn’t do it. And he bugged me again, so I finally told him that if John pulls me on-stage, if John takes my clothes off, I’ll do it.
But John wasn’t very, uh, brave. John liked things to be set up for him, wasn’t great at instigating it, so Malcolm had a word with him - hand signals and stuff - and in the middle of Iggy Pop’s No Fun, John broke all the zips on my leotard, which was a real piss-off. I was so fed up about that, I just took the back off it and went zoom.
Mick Jones (London S.S., The Clash) : You knew straight away that was it, and this was what it was going to be like from now on. It was a new scene, new values - so different from what had happened before. A bit dangerous.