The Sex Pistols - Pretty Vacant

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  • Опубликовано: 27 мар 2025
  • Live at the Brixton Academy

Комментарии • 277

  • @biaora
    @biaora 2 года назад +75

    What a great song, and that fabulous roaring sound. The attitude - the originality - wish I was there in the 70s

    • @troywhitaker333
      @troywhitaker333 2 года назад +2

      Wish we could've had a go pro.😎

    • @leetatam8701
      @leetatam8701 Год назад +4

      I was mate and it was fantastic.

    • @matthewlacey5307
      @matthewlacey5307 11 месяцев назад +1

      Noise like a 747 taking off and just as iconic and brilliant

    • @brentramsey
      @brentramsey 8 месяцев назад

      Steve Jones
      Enough said
      Just think about it

    • @jamesward9570
      @jamesward9570 6 месяцев назад

      It was brilliant

  • @laurih.t.8723
    @laurih.t.8723 Год назад +62

    John Lydon is the epitome of the Rebel in all of us and yet he's a gentlemen and saint in his own right... He was devoted to his wife and took care of her solely till she passed. I love that bastard! ❤❤❤❤❤

    • @markaldrich2314
      @markaldrich2314 7 месяцев назад +4

      His breaking down in tears to Philip Scholfield and Holly Willoughby when talking about this was heartbreaking

    • @melaniewilliams3468
      @melaniewilliams3468 3 месяца назад

      @@laurih.t.8723 and he had the balls to speak out about Jimmy savile but noone listened to him.

  • @klaws32
    @klaws32 2 года назад +97

    These guys are the real deal. Punk in its purest, best form

    • @biaora
      @biaora 2 года назад +6

      Absolutely. Well said.

    • @martinhawkrsworth9676
      @martinhawkrsworth9676 2 года назад +4

      Well said my friend thank you for your time and have a great day today buddy

    • @kiryuchan860
      @kiryuchan860 2 года назад +1

      lol

    • @vv247
      @vv247 2 года назад +4

      Agree. But in 2023 ? not so much. The young are silent.

    • @dalebrooks304
      @dalebrooks304 Год назад +3

      Well of course they are the real deal they are one of the original Punk bands

  • @gordonmckenzie4527
    @gordonmckenzie4527 Месяц назад +13

    The greatest intro in the history of rock by a country mile... Steve Jones guitaring is so tight, and that Les Paul tone 👌 👏

  • @richardfowell5687
    @richardfowell5687 2 года назад +68

    Johnny's voice is still awesome to this day 👍

    • @bluepez57
      @bluepez57 5 месяцев назад +1

      Yeah. I think he was around 50 - 51 here

    • @JoM-f7q
      @JoM-f7q Месяц назад

      ​@@bluepez57Cool.

    • @JoM-f7q
      @JoM-f7q Месяц назад

      Steve was on a FM station out of LA. Lots of memories and interviews so much fun to hear.

  • @manskullman6509
    @manskullman6509 3 месяца назад +34

    Well I’m 69 years old and I still love this song! ❤ Great Band and Great Singer ! JohnCoolman

    • @AngeloWalterFurtado
      @AngeloWalterFurtado 3 месяца назад

      @@manskullman6509 You got that right, brother! As Johnny Rotten in S.P or John Lydon in P.I.L, Johnny's a legendary artist 🎤🎵🎸

    • @manskullman6509
      @manskullman6509 3 месяца назад +1

      @ Thanx ! Remember how great singer John Lydon really is and how good person he is! John

    • @chunksis2
      @chunksis2 Месяц назад

      70 and still love its rawness

    • @MrDanboyd3
      @MrDanboyd3 Месяц назад

      68 me

    • @MrDanboyd3
      @MrDanboyd3 Месяц назад

      @@manskullman6509he’s a Trumper Sadly 😢

  • @MGBranco
    @MGBranco Год назад +31

    This was memorable! A gig for the ages! Sex Pistols Forever!!

  • @simoncloake8051
    @simoncloake8051 4 месяца назад +32

    I was at this gig, f***ing awesome..still one of the best gigs I've ever been to. I'm now the wrong side of 60 and this still makes me wanna get up and 'go for it'

    • @danlunt2933
      @danlunt2933 4 месяца назад

      Maybe you're on the right side age wise! I'm 49 and would have loved to see this!

    • @simoncloake8051
      @simoncloake8051 4 месяца назад

      @danlunt2933 I love the fact that the Sex Pistols music is still being loved by all ages. I guess I grew up in the right era for music

    • @alansmith795
      @alansmith795 3 месяца назад

      Where was it Ivanhoe's Huddersfield or knickers in Keighley

    • @desmondberry4823
      @desmondberry4823 3 месяца назад +1

      Dont let age stop you do your best im 65 and still drumming to the sex pistols

    • @barneybarnfield6211
      @barneybarnfield6211 Месяц назад

      Never the wrong side bud❤

  • @davidwaterhouse2552
    @davidwaterhouse2552 2 года назад +20

    When he sings 'Fackin Cant' on the second chorus cracks me up every time! It must be 'the schoolboy ' in me ( I am 57) ! dx

    • @j700jam4
      @j700jam4 5 месяцев назад +2

      He always sing pretty va-c_nt. I’m 61 and was 14 in 77, right in the thick of it. It was amazing

  • @stuartwhitmore4223
    @stuartwhitmore4223 Месяц назад +9

    64 years old , Johnny Rotten is still a hero.

  • @javierpekin9338
    @javierpekin9338 5 месяцев назад +121

    57 years old and still listening this for ever.!!

    • @mariamendez-kozaric1588
      @mariamendez-kozaric1588 5 месяцев назад +4

      Same !!!!! 59 years !!!

    • @schorschi1567
      @schorschi1567 5 месяцев назад +5

      Same here, mate! We are all the same age and we are still there! :)

    • @daverobson1604
      @daverobson1604 5 месяцев назад +7

      65 now and still listening to them. Will never stop

    • @porkybriddon4285
      @porkybriddon4285 5 месяцев назад +5

      69 and still a punk fan😊

    • @ex-oriente-lux
      @ex-oriente-lux 5 месяцев назад +5

      I am 57 too !
      Greatings from Germoney 😎

  • @Eduardo-ob8je
    @Eduardo-ob8je Месяц назад +11

    My favorite Pistol's song, for ever and ever!.

  • @jaredsalvador9379
    @jaredsalvador9379 2 года назад +8

    2:57 when you got a Pistols concert at 9 but get off work at 8

  • @JamesArmstrong-g6j
    @JamesArmstrong-g6j Месяц назад +5

    67 years today. Feb 10/58. Love these tunes!!!!!!

  • @melaniewilliams3468
    @melaniewilliams3468 5 месяцев назад +14

    I'm 60 years old but I remember my punk days like yesterday. I actually wore a black bin bag on one night out. When you're a teenager you look great in anything. Black nail varnish and all the rest. Fun days.

    • @GlennPowell-ls3lg
      @GlennPowell-ls3lg 3 месяца назад

      To this day I still look at a woman and think 'she would look just as good wearing a bin liner' Thats the acid test to this day.

    • @QED_
      @QED_ 3 месяца назад

      I hear you -- props. At the same time, yours is definitely a woman's take on punk. Men rarely think of it as "fun" . . .

  • @colettelavoie7259
    @colettelavoie7259 3 года назад +29

    yes this was a great performance .it blew my fucking mind! I want first row if they ever tour again

  • @AlbertoLence-ni3zp
    @AlbertoLence-ni3zp 4 месяца назад +5

    La mejor banda de punk de todos los tiempos, con 69 años muchas noches antes de dormir escucho alguno de sus temas.

  • @aturogs1954
    @aturogs1954 5 месяцев назад +7

    There oughta be a movie about this band. They stuck to their ideals and had their own story to tell.

  • @southerncross86
    @southerncross86 3 года назад +16

    One of my preferred songs

  • @TheTaytay4455
    @TheTaytay4455 3 месяца назад +4

    Was at this gig. One of two at Brixton Academy.
    Best band on the planet

  • @carpscan
    @carpscan Месяц назад +5

    The most influential band since the beatles

  • @harveysmith100
    @harveysmith100 6 месяцев назад +7

    Lovely to see Glen back with them, people never realised what a great bass player he was. Blonde knew though

    • @skylarkman2000
      @skylarkman2000 6 месяцев назад

      Truly amazing musician .

    • @manskullman6509
      @manskullman6509 Месяц назад

      @@harveysmith100 How could anyone like Sid ? He was an idiot who could not play the bass!! Could Sid sing ? Not at all!! He was sic...! Jon Fisher

  • @НаидаСутаева-х4в
    @НаидаСутаева-х4в 2 года назад +13

    Fantastic energy!

  • @carlpentney290
    @carlpentney290 2 месяца назад +2

    If ever you want a song to define a period in time this is it. Oh and probably the best band name ever.

  • @grahamwhittle1971
    @grahamwhittle1971 5 месяцев назад +5

    This is why this band are the best PUNK band in history this right here

  • @stevejardine3914
    @stevejardine3914 5 месяцев назад +3

    Great night,so glad to be taken as a guest of a very good friend. Many thanks to Michael.

  • @marclayne9261
    @marclayne9261 2 месяца назад +5

    69 years old, and still listening....

  • @jameskendall9168
    @jameskendall9168 8 лет назад +8

    I was looking up some old records and saw someone had given Johnny Rotten
    faint praise. It's a free country and they can say that but for me this a nice diet of
    noise. We like it, it's what we wanna do. So goddamn Vacant!!!

  • @debra1363
    @debra1363 2 года назад +11

    Johnny went from looking like an angry elf to Bart Simpson!Don't know how to even describe him in 2022 but I still love him and all 5he Pistols

  • @carpscan
    @carpscan 4 дня назад

    No one els could turn 2 chords into a masterpiece except Lydon

  • @jacquelinemarypiper
    @jacquelinemarypiper 3 месяца назад +2

    I've still got this on 7" vinyl from my school days - love it!

  • @Andrew-cl7kg
    @Andrew-cl7kg 2 года назад +20

    the most important band in the history of music bar none .

    • @sergeylazarev4569
      @sergeylazarev4569 2 года назад +3

      Not really

    • @kiryuchan860
      @kiryuchan860 2 года назад +4

      You're out of your mind.

    • @Jimmy_Cooper
      @Jimmy_Cooper 5 месяцев назад +1

      @@sergeylazarev4569its subjective

    • @PhucShu
      @PhucShu 3 месяца назад +1

      In punk, yeah, but no more than that ,

  • @scottalexander-v7g
    @scottalexander-v7g 4 месяца назад +4

    60 and still rocking with the sex pistols. from california ❤

  • @markfroggatt591
    @markfroggatt591 6 месяцев назад +5

    I can't tell you how much I loved this band in the 80s. Saw them twice st bradford st George's hall i adored this band. I wish them all the very best.

  • @Mod-rw9cw
    @Mod-rw9cw 6 лет назад +18

    Wish I'd been at this gig

    • @ianbain8838
      @ianbain8838 2 года назад +5

      yeah , you and 40 , 000 others .

  • @jcz136
    @jcz136 2 года назад +9

    Pure brilliance

  • @rayryeridge3313
    @rayryeridge3313 Месяц назад +3

    Raw,explosive and honest! Rock the way it was meant to be.

  • @gataas
    @gataas Месяц назад +4

    Still unable to comprehend what happened to make this country change so much so quickly

  • @LynnWetsch
    @LynnWetsch 2 месяца назад +2

    Was at the sanfrancisco winterland show in 1977...wild times. !!!😂

  • @marksykes1191
    @marksykes1191 Месяц назад +2

    If there is a better track than this then I haven’t heard it !

  • @Didda3
    @Didda3 Месяц назад +5

    Raw British fucking legends.

  • @ianfinlay3373
    @ianfinlay3373 Месяц назад +4

    Superb

  • @marcosandrade5213
    @marcosandrade5213 2 года назад +9

    Não importa quanto tempo, será sempre foda!

  • @lucypotato8793
    @lucypotato8793 Год назад +9

    I am 62 now, just the best fun!

  • @brentramsey
    @brentramsey 9 месяцев назад +6

    I really hate I never saw them live
    This is so epic to be there
    Steve Jones bringing it

    • @QED_
      @QED_ 3 месяца назад +1

      Not every gig was as good as this one. I saw them in Chicago at the Avalon . . .

    • @brentramsey
      @brentramsey 3 месяца назад +1

      @ I grew up in Sycamore IL.

  • @GlennPowell-ls3lg
    @GlennPowell-ls3lg 3 месяца назад +2

    Rumours have it that these old bad boys are supporting Taylor Swift soon.

  • @ianwhyley3335
    @ianwhyley3335 5 месяцев назад +2

    It's actually really good Rob, question, question !!

  • @GarethSheehan-sb4to
    @GarethSheehan-sb4to 12 дней назад

    My life my art and MY GENERATION. THANK YOU BOYS😇😇😇

  • @karakoima
    @karakoima Месяц назад +2

    This has aged well!

  • @StephenMoran-w3v
    @StephenMoran-w3v 2 месяца назад +2

    Oh yes never forget the pistols the start of my journey

  • @patthorpe9559
    @patthorpe9559 3 месяца назад +2

    I wrote ‘ anarchy for the U.K. on my school blazer pocket and was expelled

  • @oneforthebristolcity
    @oneforthebristolcity 5 месяцев назад +2

    Greatest intro ever 🎸

  • @martinhawkrsworth9676
    @martinhawkrsworth9676 2 года назад +5

    Absolute bloody good well done 👍 lads

  • @jeremy4232
    @jeremy4232 3 месяца назад +1

    Absolutely brilliant!!

  • @elisabethmilk6413
    @elisabethmilk6413 2 месяца назад +2

    Um mito pra mim que amo rock 🎸 salve a música inglesa i😊

  • @thomascrooker4703
    @thomascrooker4703 Год назад +4

    110% punk. No one else can match.

  • @didisound5516
    @didisound5516 3 месяца назад +1

    FANTASTICI, SEMPRE ATTUALI, MITICA BAND, LI ADORO!!!!

  • @skylarkman2000
    @skylarkman2000 6 месяцев назад +1

    Amazing band, amazing music.

  • @xtraspecial4677
    @xtraspecial4677 6 месяцев назад +3

    The sex pistols had self destruction tattooed on their hearts ,unfortunately, the relibelious nature that gave them succes eventually destroyed them

  • @heitorj.gartner737
    @heitorj.gartner737 4 года назад +9

    3:06 vicious right there

  • @roddya2559
    @roddya2559 2 месяца назад +1

    Best band ever

  • @LouisDesantis-g2w
    @LouisDesantis-g2w Год назад +3

    Where have all the good times gone❤

  • @armando181000
    @armando181000 2 года назад +7

    Legends ❤️❤️❤️🙏

  • @samcasino1535
    @samcasino1535 День назад

    Absolute National Treasure ❤❤❤

  • @rodpeake3409
    @rodpeake3409 4 месяца назад +15

    I'm 61 and playing it right now 8.11.24

  • @nektekket852
    @nektekket852 2 года назад +11

    Fucking majestic.

  • @skipwaldent8465
    @skipwaldent8465 3 месяца назад +1

    The Rock is right here. Always

  • @hawklord100
    @hawklord100 2 года назад +5

    I'm telling my grandchildren that this is dads rock... they went very quiet

    • @QED_
      @QED_ 3 месяца назад

      Right. Pulling rank . . . is an under-appreciated satisfaction of old age.

  • @richardpowell7724
    @richardpowell7724 Месяц назад +3

    3:06 I see Syd in audience.

  • @TomasLjung-jj5dp
    @TomasLjung-jj5dp 2 месяца назад +1

    a live performance audiense shouting and they are rocking and rolling on stage will you like to sing along ? must say bravo bravo Bravissimo ☆☆☆☆☆☆

  • @sovaine
    @sovaine 3 месяца назад

    Even though there is no trademark solo, you can instantly tell its Mr Eddie Van Halen at the helm....unique tone and technique, Hendrix was the pioneer and set the bar, but in my opinion EVH at the very least equalled it.

  • @elisabethmilk6413
    @elisabethmilk6413 2 месяца назад +1

    Não tinha internet só a vontade da criatividade contra os padrões da época sou desse tempo 😊gritar em final de semana, hoje vejo gente sem ideologia e tente entender mas não 😂sou original 🎸💕

  • @marc3d
    @marc3d 11 дней назад

    one album in and for 100years ;)

  • @onofrealbertos456
    @onofrealbertos456 Год назад +1

    Genial los mejores ❤

  • @franko69
    @franko69 2 года назад +4

    There's a guy in the audience wearing a suit and tie, and another guy who is a dead ringer for Sid Vicious.

    • @tonymills4971
      @tonymills4971 Год назад

      I was at this gig and and remember a Sid look alike walking pass me who looked so similar to Sid that I thought I was seeing things, I believe he was the bass player for The Sex Pistols Experience covers band

  • @kimryan8574
    @kimryan8574 Месяц назад +4

    🎙 johnny love ya guts ,,♤♡◇♧

  • @libertard6101
    @libertard6101 6 месяцев назад +1

    Love John!!!!

  • @LuisRomero-uq1zw
    @LuisRomero-uq1zw Год назад +4

    Rock and roll

  • @peterelletson4167
    @peterelletson4167 Месяц назад +1

    awesome

  • @riccardomissiroli7265
    @riccardomissiroli7265 2 года назад +6

    Fenomenali

  • @sparklinglumens
    @sparklinglumens Месяц назад +1

    JL is a funny guy hahaha this is great 😅

  • @giulianomasetto8219
    @giulianomasetto8219 6 месяцев назад +2

    My favorite S.P. song 🍻

    • @QED_
      @QED_ 3 месяца назад

      Me too . . . until I hear the next one: Holidays, Anarchy, Queen . . . even "No One is Innocent".

  • @franciscoavila1097
    @franciscoavila1097 2 года назад +7

    Esto es musica

  • @RawskoFPS
    @RawskoFPS 9 дней назад

    this video and song is fucking legendary live

  • @Chris-vg2vs
    @Chris-vg2vs Месяц назад +3

    Wonderful!

  • @1HARTSON
    @1HARTSON 27 дней назад +1

    COOL

  • @petersmithson4644
    @petersmithson4644 27 дней назад

    Let’s be honest there was some great music back in those days.We all liked people like Gary Glitter and Jimmy Savile because we didn’t know any different.

  • @vv247
    @vv247 2 года назад +8

    The youth today are pretty vacant thats for sure.

  • @AndysGreatestHaunts
    @AndysGreatestHaunts Месяц назад +3

  • @nikolaivangelov7176
    @nikolaivangelov7176 4 месяца назад +1

    Greath Pil

  • @AngelaLace
    @AngelaLace Год назад +2

    I was there 🎉

  • @DeekLaidlaw
    @DeekLaidlaw 3 месяца назад

    Pure class and am 54 n gotta gid band to listen to better than the band's the day❤😊😊

  • @jackbridge9544
    @jackbridge9544 3 месяца назад +2

    Question: Why the flag of the California Republic? Thanks in advanced for your response.

    • @QED_
      @QED_ 3 месяца назад

      Lydon and Jones both live in LA . . .

  • @samuelmercer1529
    @samuelmercer1529 2 года назад +2

    is that keith flint at 2.48

  • @Andersonian1995
    @Andersonian1995 3 месяца назад

    3:06 are we sure Sid didn’t have a son?? Good lord this kid is a clone of him.

  • @markaldrich2314
    @markaldrich2314 7 месяцев назад +2

    Was this 2007? Just think in 3 years it will be 50 years since Never Mind The Bollocks

    • @QED_
      @QED_ 3 месяца назад

      I hear you . . but I already think about more than is healthy for me.

  • @davidglover2588
    @davidglover2588 Месяц назад +1

    Used to be best place on gods earth not anymore people 😡😡😡

  • @fisherrich100
    @fisherrich100 3 месяца назад +2

    Those first few chords ❤ ❤ ❤ from Steve Jones, fucking hell …….

  • @robjay9524
    @robjay9524 3 месяца назад +1

    I'm out to lunch.

  • @timothyclaffey9138
    @timothyclaffey9138 2 года назад +5

    For anyone who was there I'm curious. With only one album to their credit, and assuming they played every song, how long was the show? Did they do any other material?