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UNCOVERED: 3 - The Untold Story

"Open the dance floor, you’ll never get to do it again." Forget John Lydon's bitter and boring "karaoke" jibes, with Frank Carter up front, the Sex Pistols sound like the world's greatest punk band once more

The rejuvenated Sex Pistols - or Frank Carter, Steve Jones, Glen Matlock and Paul Cook if we must legally refrain from using that name - deliver a joyous start to this year's Teenage Cancer Trust at the Royal Albert Hall gig week

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Sex Pistols at the Royal Albert Hall review: 'excitement threatening to explode'

4/5 The Teenage Cancer Trust gigs kick off with Sex Pistols storming the venerable Hall with Frank Carter replacing John Lydon up top

Evening Standard

Sex Pistols delight fans at Royal Albert Hall gig for Teenage Cancer Trust

It came as the first in a series of gigs raising money for the cancer charity

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"How many of you were here the first time around?": The Sex Pistols are back at the 100 Club after nearly 50 years

Band play the Royal Albert Hall tonight

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Sex Pistols tear through classics with Frank Carter on secret 100 Club return

They performed as Spots (Sex Pistols On Tour Secretly) as they had done during the late 1970s to book shows when they were being shut down.

Evening Standard

Sex Pistols recall Vietnam vets with cattle prods hired to keep them in line on tour

The infamously fraught American tour concluded with John Lydon announcing the band’s break-up

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“The audience was throwing everything from bottles to rats to pig’s ears at the stage." The Sex Pistols look back on their wild, dangerously out-of-control and ultimately doomed first US tour

"We were thrown into the lion’s den and it was a pretty dark time."

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“I've got no hard feelings towards John”: Sex PIstol Steve Jones is open to a truce with John Lydon

But Lydon is certainly not up for new Sex Pistols output: "Never Mind the Bollocks Part 2'? "F*** off, you idiot'"

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John Lydon doesn't understand why anyone would 'expect' a second Sex Pistols album

John Lydon doesn't understand why anyone would "still expect" a follow-up to the sole Sex Pistols album because his taste in music was so eclectic to begin with.

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Sex Pistols guitarist Steve Jones wants to make peace with Johnny Rotten

Steve Jones has revealed that he is keen to make peace with his former Sex Pistols bandmate Johnny Rotten, even though the pair haven't spoken since 2008.

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Lars von Trier is exciting and enraging – his Parkinson’s diagnosis spells doom for cinema

INSIDE FILM: As the controversial director behind ‘Antichrist’ is admitted to a care centre for Parkinson’s weeks after the death of David Lynch, Xan Brooks wonders whether this may be the endgame for a certain strain of uncompromising left-field cinema

The Independent UK

“It wasn’t even worth asking John about the reunion tour”: Sex Pistols guitarist Steve Jones hasn’t spoken with John Lydon since 2008

Lydon recently hit out at Sex Pistols’ comeback with Frank Carter on vocals, calling it “karaoke”

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John Lydon feels ‘half’ the man he was since death of his wife

In an emotional interview about the devastating impact of her passing on his life, John Lydon has admitted he feels like “half” the man he was since the death of his wife.

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John Lydon struggling with 'deep pain' after losing wife

John Lydon has lost "about 50 per cent" of himself following the 2023 death of his wife Nora Forster.

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“They’re absolutely going to kill all that was good with the Pistols by eliminating the point and the purpose of it all”: John Lydon writes off Sex Pistols tour as "karaoke"

As the band prepare to head out on tour without their original frontman, Lydon has a few things to say about it

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John Lydon processing grief through new PiL music

John Lydon has found working on Public Image Ltd's new album helpful in working through his grief for late wife Nora Forster.

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“There was a full moon and the curtains were open. Every time I looked up for ideas, I looked at the moon”: How teen prodigy Kate Bush created her timeless classic Wuthering Heights

“Those shrieks and warbles are beauty beyond belief,”said John Lydon

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How The Face magazine turned style into an art form

4/5 This pulsating show at the National Portrait Gallery explores the photographs that defined what was cool in Britain from 1980 to the present

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John Lydon is "pissed off" about the Sex Pistols replacing him with Frank Carter: "they’re trying to trivialise the whole show to get away with karaoke"

Former Pistol John Lydon says he's annoyed that the punk icons reunited without him

The Independent UK

John Lydon slams new Sex Pistols revival which doesn’t feature him as ‘karaoke’

‘They’re trying to trivialise the whole show to get away with karaoke,’ former band member said

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Sex Pistols planning a US tour

Steve Jones has revealed the Sex Pistols are planning their first US tour since 2003.

Louder

"I hadn’t heard of him, to be honest": Steve Jones on the return of the Sex Pistols and how new frontman Frank Carter joined the fun

When the Sex Pistols re-formed with three original members plus singer Frank Carter, they hadn’t sounded so vital in years. And there’s more to come

Evening Standard

Signed Beatles photo and Sex Pistols lyrics sell for more than £130,000

RR Auction’s Marvels of Modern Music sale achieved a total of 1,132,981 dollars (£904,178) with several notable items.

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"I was done after that, no more." Sex Pistols guitarist Steve Jones hasn't spoken to Johnny Rotten since 2008

Any chance of Johnny Rotten fronting the Sex Pistols again seems slim as bandmate Steve Jones says 2008 tour was "too much"

The Independent UK

Sex Pistols member says he has not spoken to Johnny Rotten for years

They last played together in 2008

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