Nah, I’ve not got long hair, what makes you think that?Ĭos it’s Kerrang!, isn’t it? It’s all a load of metallers. Going to Europe with the jet lag and all that. It kicks my arse, actually, to be honest with you. We were based in London and did festivals in Russia and Japan and all that.
The Apollo in Hammersmith was the second-to-last show.
The last time I was there, funny enough, was when we were doing a bunch of Sex Pistols shows in 2008 in Europe. I mean, I know Holloway Road, but I’m sure it’s changed a lot. It’s been so long since I’ve been there – I’ve been out here for 35 years. What does that do to a man and his life – when you collide with culture with such force that people are still camped out at the impact site, peering down into the crater four decades on?įorty years after the uproarious, pivotal, hilarious and vital release of Never Mind the Bollocks, I called Steve Jones to try to find out. You know, that time? That time when Steve Jones played guitar and basically invented punk rock with the Sex Pistols, one of the greatest and most decisive rock ’n roll bands the world has ever produced. Yet still… after all that, it tends to be the same, one thing people wanna talk about. Steve Jones also has his own autobiography, Lonely Boy, which arrived earlier this year full of hilarious and illuminating stories but also tales of domestic sexual abuse and neglect that at times make for difficult reading. I guess when you’ve collaborated with Johnny Thunders, Thin Lizzy, Billy Idol, Bob Dylan, Iggy Pop, Andy Taylor, Duff McKagan, Lisa Marie Presley, Johnny Depp and Insane Clown Posse there’s a certain amount of creative fatigue that sets in. He’s largely left the process of creating new music behind – the stuff Steve Jones did with The Professionals was reissued in 2015, prompting a live and studio reunion, neither of which he is involved in. He’s sober – has been for 27 years, he tells me – and content now, a DJ with his own daily rock show and a working actor. But so would you be if people kept calling you up asking questions about something you did 40 years ago when you were a teenage tearaway addicted to a) booze, b) drugs and c) having sex with your bandmates’ girlfriends.īorn in Shepherd’s Bush, West London in 1955, it’s been 35 years since Steve Jones moved to Los Angeles and nine since he was last in the UK.
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