The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle (album)
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This article is about Sex Pistols album. For movie about Sex Pistols, see The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle.
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| Soundtrack by Sex Pistols | |||||
| Released | 2 March 1979 | ||||
| Recorded | 1978 | ||||
| Genre | Punk rock | ||||
| Length | 77:06 | ||||
| Label | Virgin Records | ||||
| Producer | Dave Goodman | ||||
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The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle is the soundtrack album of the movie of the same name. Although released under Sex Pistols' name, it includes performances by several other artists.
[edit] Production
The band was defunct by the time the soundtrack was being prepared, and John Lydon refused to participate in the project. So the "proper" Sex Pistols tracks were done by taking Lydon's vocals from the October 1976 demo session recordings and rerecording their instrumental tracks (done by Paul Cook and Steve Jones).[1]
The album features a significant number of tracks that omit Lydon entirely; most of them written and recorded after the band broke up. These include Sid Vicious singing cover songs, two new original songs ("Silly Thing", sung by Cook and "Lonely Boy", sung by Jones), tracks Cook and Jones recorded with Ronnie Biggs, the title track and "Who Killed Bambi?" sung by Edward Tudor-Pole, and numerous novelty tracks including French street musicians playing Anarchy in the UK and a medley of several Sex Pistols songs covered by a disco band.
People who sang on The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle include:
- Paul Cook – lead vocals on "Silly Thing" (1978)
- Steve Jones – lead vocals on "Lonely Boy", "The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle", "Friggin' In The Riggin" and the single release of "Silly Thing" (1978)
- Ronnie Biggs – lead vocals on "No One Is Innocent", "Belsen Was a Gas" (1978)
- Malcolm McLaren – lead vocals on "You Need Hands" (1979)
- Edward Tudor-Pole – lead vocals on "Rock Around the Clock" , "Who Killed Bambi" (1979)
- Sid Vicious – lead vocals on "My Way", "C'mon Everybody", "Something Else" (1978)
[edit] Song List
- "God Save the Queen" (Johnny Rotten, Steve Jones, Glen Matlock, Paul Cook) – 3:23
- orchestral rendition with Malcolm McLaren speaking over the music about how he "invented" punk rock and the Sex Pistols (alternate Title on later Reissues: God Save The Queen (Symphony)"
- "Rock Around the Clock" (Max C. Freedman, James E. Myers) – 2:04
- vocals by Edward Tudor-Pole
- "Johnny B Goode" (Chuck Berry) – 2:36
- "Roadrunner" (Jonathan Richman) – 3:47
- "Black Arabs" (AKA "Disco Medley") – 4:51
- "Anarchy in the UK"/"God Save the Queen"/"Pretty Vacant"/"No One is Innocent" (Rotten, Jones, Matlock, Cook, Ronnie Biggs)
- disco adaptation performed by a group called Black Arabs
- "Substitute" (Pete Townshend) – 3:10
- "Anarchy in the UK" (Rotten, Jones, Matlock, Cook) – 3:35
- Mike Thorne remix (beef-ed up drums) of previously unreleased session from October 1976
- "Don't Give Me No Lip, Child" (Thomas/Richards) – 3:27
- "(I'm Not Your) Steppin' Stone" (Tommy Boyce, Bobby Hart) – 3:06
- "L'Anarchie Pour Le UK" (Rotten, Jones, Matlock, Cook) – 3:28
- by a trio of French street musicians led by singer Louis Brennon, with accordion and fiddle. (alternate Title on later Reissues: "Anarchie Pour Le UK")
- "Belsen Was A Gas" (Rotten, Jones, Sid Vicious, Cook) – 2:12
- performed live by Sex Pistols at the last concert in early 1978 in San Francisco (alternate Title on later Reissues: "Einmal War Belsen Bortrefflich")
- "Belsen Vos A Gassa" (Rotten, Jones, Vicious, Cook) – 2:17
- vocals by Ronald Biggs (alternate Title on later Reissues: "Einmal War Belsen Wirflich Bortrefflich")
- "Silly Thing" (Jones, Cook) – 2:51
- vocals by Paul Cook
- "My Way" (Paul Anka, Claude François, Jacques Revaux) – 4:06
- vocals by Sid Vicious
- "Whatcha Gonna Do About It" (Ian Samwell, Steve Marriott, Ronnie Lane) – 1:55
- "Something Else" (Eddie Cochran, Sharon Sheeley) – 2:14
- vocals by Sid Vicious
- "Lonely Boy" (Jones, Cook) – 3:07
- vocals by Steve Jones
- "No One Is Innocent" 3:04 (Jones, Cook, Biggs) – 3:04
- vocals by Ronald Biggs
- "C'mon Everybody" (Eddie Cochran, Jerry Capehart) – 1:56
- vocals by Sid Vicious
- "EMI" (Rotten, Jones, Matlock, Cook) – 3:44
- orchestral rendition with Steve Jones speaking the lyrics (alternate Title on later Reissues: "Emi (Orch)")
- "The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle" (Jones, Cook, Julien Temple) – 4:21
- vocals by Edward Tudor-Pole, Steve Jones, Paul Cook & others
- "You Need Hands" (Max Bygraves) – 2:54
- vocals by Malcolm McLaren
- "Friggin' in the Riggin'" (Traditional; arranged by Jones) – 3:37
- vocals by Steve Jones
- "Who Killed Bambi?" (Edward Tudor-Pole/Vivienne Westwood) – 3:07
- vocals by Edward Tudor-Pole, with an orchestra
Tracks 3, 4, 6, 7, 8 and 13 originally recorded by Sex Pistols in October 1976, but with instrumental tracks rerecorded in 1978 by Jones & Cook and Johnny Rotten's vocals intact.
The CD Version from 1983 has a different tracklist.
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