“There are two Glen Matlocks,” one of them notes at the end of this self-explanatory memoir. “There’s a former Sex Pistol who answers a thousand questions every day over the same three-year period, and there’s a second Glen who wants to be seen as living in the present. I’m a supporter of the second Glen. He is the reason I get up in the morning.”
As he knows all too well, no matter what he does, Matlock will always be an ex-pistol first and foremost, but now, having a drinking problem and being comfortable in his own skin, he has survived, unlike the other two pistol men. . Guitarist Wally Nightingale, fired before the rise even began, suffered a fatal overdose at the age of 40. The day before, Matlock suggests, a long-awaited, life-changing songwriting check had landed on his rug. Meanwhile, Matlock’s surrogate mother and drinking buddy Sid Vicious died of an overdose at the age of 21 while awaiting trial on murder charges.
Lucky escape aside, Matlock left the band nearly half a century ago after writing the music for their biggest hits, but remains forever cursed as manager Malcolm McLaren claims in a press release that the bassist was fired because he was “too much of a delighted.” work.” long. about Paul McCartney. “Absolute nonsense,” Matlock snaps.
Triggers This is not so much an attempt to rewrite history as an attempt to engage with it. Matlock recalls the past with less anger than in his first, often self-pitying, 1996 memoir. I was a teenage sex pistol “The lack of sacrifice here, combined with the wisdom of the cheerful and capricious age of a 67-year-old man, makes the book far superior.” Matlock sees the Pistols as part – albeit an important part – of his CV, noting: “In my school year half a dozen kids got into Oxbridge, but I was the only one who went on to become a Sex Pistol.”
Except he outraged the nation by swearing on television. Today (they later replaced Queen after Freddie Mercury got a toothache), being a Sex Pistol seems like a daunting task. As well as the canceled gigs, there was another gig in Plymouth that no one turned up to, and a gig at an unknown Conservative club in the north that was canceled because the patrons couldn’t hear the bingo numbers.
And Matlock attended the lucrative but heartbreaking, animosity-filled meetings where his old animosity toward singer John Lydon resurfaced; where Lydon refused to record new material that might have given them new life, and where, fortunately, Matlock’s idea for a Vicious musical came to fruition Sydney was rejected. “We missed the mark here,” he chuckles.
After the Pistols, Matlock really missed the trick with his band the Rich Kids – whose energetic, beautifully crafted pop-punk deserved more than a fleeting flirtation with the charts – his last chance at stardom before launching a solo career that rarely threatens the mainstream. . He was also Iggy Pop’s sidekick in the early ’80s and was part of the Faces’ 2010 reunion. The boy who was once kissed on the cheek by Debbie Harry is now approaching his 70th birthday and is with Blondie, with whom he played at Glastonbury this year. A survivor indeed.
As the subtitle promises, Matlock is cautious when it comes to his non-musical life, but the West London boy still lives there and seems united with his musician sons Sam and Louis. In any case, if he is dissatisfied with his lot in life, he doesn’t admit it here, in his memoir, which is both frank and insightful, but still a celebration of satisfaction. It’s worth reading.
With unlikely guest appearances from Billy Connolly, Frankie Vaughan, Kevin Rowland and David Bowie (“ever the regular guy”), and a belated confrontation with the failures of Brexit (“a huge step backwards for all of us”), as the rest of its life, Triggers makes the most of what Glen Matlock has given.
Source: I News
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