Glen Matlock
Find Glen Matlock bio, music, credits, awards, & streaming links on AllMusic - Original Sex Pistols bassist who wrote several. It might not be expected that a punk rock legend like Glen Matlock might take a venture towards a mainstream entertainment outlet like NYC’s Broadway theater, but. Ferry Maat Soul Show Special Edition on this page.
DISCOGRAPHY ANARCHY IN THE UK / I WANNA BE ME 1976 NEVER MIND THE BOLLOCKS 1977 RICH KIDS / EMPTY WORDS (p/s) EMI 2738 (1/78) UK chart position No.24 (Limited edition red vinyl in red card sleeve) RICH KIDS / EMPTY WORDS (p/s) EMI 2738 (1/78) (Reissue on black vinyl and in an ordinary paper sleeve) MARCHING MEN / HERE COMES THE NICE (LIVE) (p/s) EMI 2803 (5/78) GHOSTS OF PRINCES IN TOWERS / ONLY ARSENIC EMI 2848 (8/78) LP GHOSTS OF PRINCES IN TOWERS EMI 3263 (8/78) UK chart position No. 51 CDs GHOSTS OF PRINCES IN TOWERS DOJO CD 151 (9/93) WINTERS OF DISCONTENT STRANGE FRUIT SFR CD 204 (?/91 (Compilation CD, features RICH KIDS from John Peel Session 7/11/77) AFTER THE ANARCHY Connoisseur Collection VSOP CD 188 (?/93) (Compilation CD of post Sex Pistols solo work). PUNK DIARY 1970-1979 (Interview CD included free with American copies of George Gimarc’s ‘Punk Diary’ book.
How much was your first record advance and what did you buy with it? When we signed with EMI in 1976 we got £40,000 [about £300,000 in today’s money] between us in the band, plus wages of £25 a week and the rent on a flat paid for. Out of my share I got a Rickenbacker 4001 bass guitar that had been making eyes at me from a shop in Denmark Street. It was about £400.
I used it on the Anarchy in the UK record and tour. I’ve still got it now. Has there been a time in your life when you didn’t know how you were going to pay the bills?
Oh yeah, lots of times. Is Bluetooth Or Wifi Direct Faster. Before we got our record deal we were absolutely skint.
We used to live in our rehearsal place in Denmark Street, and we were starving... Until we found out that the milk float didn’t only deliver milk at five o’clock in the morning, it also used to deliver bread and cheese. So that came in handy. So did you steal food from milk floats back then? We put it to better use. It was an investment in punk rock. You famously quit the Sex Pistols in 1977.