Sex Pistols – The Great Rock ‘n’ Roll Swindle
(Virgin Records 1979 VD2510)
Matrix No’s: A4/B3/C4/D3 – UK Pressing
Gatefold Sleeve in Excellent/Very Good+ condition
– sellotape marking on 3 of the edges – small split in top edge – inner has tear along bottom edge on right
hype sticker still present on front and back
Tracklisting Insert in Nr MINT condition
Double Vinyl in Nr MINT condition
(there are some surface marks visible on the vinyl when held up to the light but they don’t affect the sound quality)
The Sex Pistols were an English punk rock band that formed in London in 1975. They were responsible for initiating the punk movement in the United Kingdom and inspiring many later punk and alternative rock musicians. Although their initial career lasted just two-and-a-half years and produced only four singles and one studio album, Never Mind the Bollocks, Here’s the Sex Pistols, they are regarded as one of the most influential acts in the history of popular music.
The Great Rock ‘n’ Roll Swindle is the soundtrack album of the film of the same name. Although released under Sex Pistols’ name, it includes performances by other artists.
Track listing
| Version A | ||||||||||
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| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Vocals | Length | ||||||
| 1. | “God Save the Queen” (orchestral rendition with spoken word over the music about how punk rock and the Sex Pistols were “invented” (alternate title: God Save The Queen (Symphony)”) | Johnny Rotten, Steve Jones, Glen Matlock, Paul Cook | Malcolm McLaren | 3:23 | ||||||
| 2. | “Johnny B Goode“ | Chuck Berry | Johnny Rotten | 2:36 | ||||||
| 3. | “Roadrunner” | Jonathan Richman | Johnny Rotten | 3:47 | ||||||
| 4. | “Black Arabs” (disco medley, includes “Anarchy in the UK“, “God Save the Queen“, “Pretty Vacant” and “No One is Innocent“) | Rotten, Jones, Matlock, Cook, Ronnie Biggs | performed by a group called Black Arabs | 4:51 | ||||||
| 5. | “Anarchy in the UK” (Mike Thorne remix (beef-ed up drums) of previously unreleased session from October 1976) | Rotten, Jones, Matlock, Cook | Johnny Rotten | 4:00 | ||||||
| 6. | “Substitute” | Pete Townshend | Johnny Rotten | 3:10 | ||||||
| 7. | “Don’t Give Me No Lip, Child” (cover of Dave Berry, 1964) | Barry Richards, Jean Thomas, Don Thomas | Johnny Rotten | 3:27 | ||||||
| 8. | “(I’m Not Your) Steppin’ Stone” | Tommy Boyce, Bobby Hart | Johnny Rotten | 3:06 | ||||||
| 9. | “L’Anarchie Pour Le UK” (performed by a trio of French street musicians with accordion and fiddle. (alternate title: “Anarchie Pour Le UK”)) | Rotten, Jones, Matlock, Cook | Louis Brennon | 3:28 | ||||||
| 10. | “Belsen Was a Gas” (alternate title: “Einmal war Belsen Vortrefflich”) | Rotten, Jones, Sid Vicious, Cook | Johnny Rotten | 2:12 | ||||||
| 11. | “Belsen Vos a Gassa” (alternate title: “Einmal war Belsen wirklich Vortrefflich”) | Rotten, Jones, Vicious, Cook | Ronnie Biggs | 2:17 | ||||||
| 12. | “Silly Thing” | Jones, Cook | Paul Cook | 2:51 | ||||||
| 13. | “My Way“ | Paul Anka, Claude François, Jacques Revaux | Sid Vicious | 4:06 | ||||||
| 14. | “I Wanna Be Me” | Matlock, Cook, Jones, Rotten | Johnny Rotten | 3:03 | ||||||
| 15. | “Something Else“ | Eddie Cochran, Sharon Sheeley | Sid Vicious | 2:14 | ||||||
| 16. | “Rock Around the Clock” | Max C. Freedman, James E. Myers | Edward Tudor-Pole | 2:04 | ||||||
| 17. | “Lonely Boy” | Jones, Cook | Steve Jones | 3:07 | ||||||
| 18. | “No One Is Innocent” | Jones, Cook, Biggs | Ronnie Biggs | 3:04 | ||||||
| 19. | “C’mon Everybody” | Eddie Cochran, Jerry Capehart | Sid Vicious | 1:56 | ||||||
| 20. | “EMI” (orchestral rendition with Steve Jones speaking the lyrics (alternate title: “EMI (Orch)”)) | Rotten, Jones, Matlock, Cook | Steve Jones | 3:44 | ||||||
| 21. | “The Great Rock ‘n’ Roll Swindle” | Jones, Cook, Julien Temple | Edward Tudor-Pole, Steve Jones, Paul Cook & others | 4:21 | ||||||
| 22. | “Friggin’ in the Riggin’“ | Traditional; arranged by Jones | Steve Jones | 3:37 | ||||||
| 23. | “You Need Hands” | Max Bygraves | Malcolm McLaren | 2:54 | ||||||
| 24. | “Who Killed Bambi?” | Edward Tudor-Pole/Vivienne Westwood | Edward Tudor-Pole | 3:07 | ||||||
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