Hello.
Me name's John.
Welcome to the Museum.
When we did this, we didn't know that the Queen's image wasn't copyrighted until we started
fiddling about with it.
I own a piece of this by right.
As a tax payer, she is my property.
Not by slave unit but something akin.
I've got nothing against this lot at all.
Alright.
They're born into a guilded cage but a cage it is.
They're like poor little trapped birds, the coal miners take down to experiment on how
bad the gas is.
Well, so there they are.
They're a kind of thermometer really, how good or bad the population of Britain is.
And they're not doing well lately.
Boredom, nowhere!
Kind of, yeah.
For the pretty vacant single,
it's kind of appropriate because when we did tour America, it was on exactly one of them buses.
Don't let anyone tell you you can't do anything 'cause you can.
Just as long as you're the first and not one of them copy rats all around the rest of the
exhibition.
I wrote this song about Berlin because we wanted to go on holiday, because we just had
enough with the pressure and so as a group we went first to New Jersey.
But they banned us.
So the rest went home and me and Sid went onto Berlin.
You know.
You don't necessarily want to go out of your way to make trouble.
But the kind of person I am, it happens anyway so I might as well take credit for it.
And this was sent into us, these cartoons by a young kid and it was a great fun idea
for the cover of the single.
Lovely good work because it's very much like them saucy seaside postcards.
No, things like that are just stupid and so I won't even involve myself with it because
it's daft.
By the time the ideas fellow had left the band, that's kind of where it went.
I've been involved in all the Pistols art work up until the dodgy stuff.
So I don't swindle no one.
It's good though.
I like it, all of this.
It's a chance to see some of it and check out the art work of that time.
A lot of the bands were very, very different.
We had the same approach that our art should be a part of the music and challenge you really.
This way. Dance to the Sex Pistols.
This is terrible.
I think you've got to be honest you know.
But it's interesting to see.
I don't like it.
It's like they're trying to use our colors but they've gone off shade.
Wasn't the printer working?
They all try to make out it was some great scene that we all hung out together in.
It wasn't like that at all.
Wasn't at all and its the same old jealousies and inter band nonsenses going on.
You know, same as the old days, same as the new days.
Pity, it's just too much jealousy in music.
If you really want to get people to understand what it is you're doing, do it with sense
of comedy and vague mockery, satire, irony.
These are all really really useful tools.
Just bland hatred isn't going to work because you're alienating not only yourself, but everybody else.
There's enough of them mindless bands out there, isn't there?
I know I've said he is the Sex Pistol of politics.
I hope so.
I hope something good comes out of that because I've been well known for years to tell you,
I despise all politicians and I'll despise him even more if he becomes one.
I like anyone that will mess with the system.
Yes, it's healthy.
I'm sorry medicine doesn't taste nice sometimes but it does the body good.
But lets put it this way.
I've just become an American and observing your problems that you've made for yourselves
many many decades ago.
If I could be of any assistance, I surely will.
My best part of the entire exhibition is this blank wall here.
Because it gives me the opportunity to introduce myself.
I'm a man of certain means.