Sex Pistols Group Members

Paul Cook was born July 20 1956, London, England. He was/is a drummer and founding member of the Sex Pistols. After the demise of the Pistols, Cook and guitarist Steve Jones, initially worked on the soundtrack to the Pistols film The Great Rock N' Roll Swindle. Becoming disillusioned with Malcolm McLaren's antics, the pair started a new band, the Greedy Bastards, linking up with several members of Thin Lizzy including Phil Lynott. The band released only one single under the name The Greedies, entitled "A Merry Jingle". They performed several live shows but the band split within a year.

Cook and Jones later teamed up with a number of acts as freelance musicians, playing on Joan Jett's debut album. A proposed partnership with Jimmy Pursey and Dave Treganna of Sham 69 failed to materialise, so the pair formed their own band. The Professionals were formed with Andy Allen, who was replaced soon after by Paul Myers of Subway Sect together with Ray McVeigh. The group released two albums, but following a car accident in the U.S. the band split in 1982.

Cook then went on to appear with the group "The Chiefs of Relief" after a period out of the music industry, played with Edwyn Collins in the 1990s and reunited with the Pistols in 1996 for the "Filthy Lucre" world tour.

Steve Jones:

Birth name: Stephen Philip Jones

Date of Birth: September 3, 1955

Place of Birth: London, England

Height: 6' (1.83 m)

Best Known As: Guitarist for Sex Pistols.

Sometimes Credited As: Stephen Phillip Jones, Stephen Jones, Sex Pistols, The Sex Pistols

Steve Jones Biography:

Steve Phillip Jones is a British rock & roll guitarist and singer, best known as a guitarist for the seminal punk rock band the Sex Pistols.

Jones was born on September 3, 1955 in West London, England, grew up in the Shepherd's Bush neighborhood, as did the other members of the band. He admitted he took his style of guitar-playing from Johnny Thunders of the New York Dolls.

His real father, an amateur boxer, named Don Jarvis left Steve and his mother when he was just two years old. Sometime later his Step-father arrived on the scene, for a time, Steve lived in a house with his parents and grandparents, and at the age of 12 moved to a one-bedroomed basement flat with his mother and step-father, in Shepherds Bush. He didn't have a happy childhood and felt that his mother hated him. He didn't want to get a job and at the age of 16, his step-father threw him out of the family home, for that very reason. By this time, Jones already had a criminal record dating back to 1968 and had spent a year and a half in a reform school. This did little to thwart his criminal intentions. By the age of 18, he was not far off ending up in jail. Realising that music was his only way out of the life he hated, he started up a band. In 1972 Q.T. Jones and the Sex Pistols were formed, Just a few years later, with a line-up change, a switch to guitar from vocals for Jones and the name cut in half, Jones would be part of what were once one of the most notorious bands in the UK at that time.

After the Sex Pistols broke up, Jones and drummer Paul Cook started the hard rock outfit The Professionals. They recorded two albums but disbanded after a serious car accident while on tour in the US in 1981. Jones also played with Thin Lizzy, Joan Jett, Iggy Pop, Andy Taylor, the Neurotic Outsiders and had a solo career in the 1980s and early 1990s. He participated in the Sex Pistols reunions and currently resides in Los Angeles, California.

By the age of 18, he was not far off ending up in jail. Realising that music was his only way out of the life he hated, he started up a band. In 1972 Q.T. Jones and the Sex Pistols were formed, Just a few years later, with a line-up change, a switch to guitar from vocals for Jones and the name cut in half, Jones would be part of what were once one of the most notorious bands in the UK at that time. The break-up of the Pistols led to drug problems for Jones, most notably an addiction to Heroin, which would last until 1987, until Jones got himself clean and started work on his very first solo album. 1989 gave us a second and Jones continued his work within the music scene until 1996 when not only did he have the Neurotic Outsiders, but also the Sex Pistols re-united for a world tour.

Glen Matlock:

Glen Matlock (born August 27, 1956) was the original bass player of punk rock band the Sex Pistols. He left that band in late February 1977, the legend being that he was 'thrown out' because he "liked The Beatles" (although in a television interview in 2002, Pistols guitarist Steve Jones stated that the real reason was that Matlock was "always washing his feet"). However, in his autobiography I Was a Teenage Sex Pistol, Matlock himself has stated that he left the band of his own volition as he was "sick of all the bullshit". Matlock was replaced by Sid Vicious (who did not play bass very well but was offered lessons by Matlock), and went on to form The Rich Kids, a new wave/power pop band, with Midge Ure, Steve New and Rusty Egan. However, in John Lydon's autobiography Rotten: No Blacks, No Dogs, No Irish, he claims that Matlock worked on later Sex Pistols material (including their album Never Mind The Bollocks, Here's The Sex Pistols) as a paid session musician.

A former art school student, Matlock had originally joined up with Jones and Cook in 1972; even though he left the group in 1977 before their debut album was completed, he was still rehired to complete the majority of the album's bass tracks. Upon his exit, Matlock formed a punk-pop unit called the Rich Kids, which also featured future Ultravox singer Midge Ure; they released one album in 1978, Ghosts of Princes in Towers (which produced an overlooked classic in the title track), before breaking up. Matlock played with Sid Vicious and joined Iggy Pop's band shortly thereafter, touring with Pop in 1979 and appearing on the following year's Soldier album. Over the next few years, Matlock played with a variety of bands, including the Spectres (with Danny Kustow, ex-Tom Robinson Band), the London Cowboys (appearing on their 1984 album Tall in the Saddle), and Johnny Thunders (from about 1985-1987). In 1990, Matlock published his autobiography, I Was a Teenage Sex Pistol, and subsequently worked in the Role Models with ex-members of Public Image Ltd. In 1995, he played with a Faces-style rock & roll band called the Philistines, which also featured singer Gerry Foster, guitarist Paul O'Brien, and drummer Paul Simon (and had initially included ex-PiL guitarist Keith Levene); that year they released an album, called Hard Work, on Peppermint Records. In 1996, Matlock's first solo album, Who Does He Think He Is When He's at Home, was released on Creation, featuring ex-Rich Kids guitarist Steve New.

Matlock rejoined the surviving Sex Pistols members for reunion tours in 1996, 2002 and 2003.

Johnny Rotten (John Lydon):

Real Name / Full Name / Birth Name: John Joseph Lydon

Profession: Musician, singer, songwriter

Date of Birth: 1/31/1956

Birthplace: Finsbury Park, London

John Joseph Lydon was born on January 31 1956), was the iconoclastic lead singer of the Sex Pistols and Public Image Ltd (PiL) and an Irish individualist anarchist. With his leering, swaggering and sarcastic manner he laid down a new template for rebellious youth and band frontmen that continues to be imitated today.

Lydon was chosen by Malcolm McLaren to front the Sex Pistols on the basis of his image. Lydon was hanging around McLaren's clothes shop Sex (co-owned with designer Vivienne Westwood) in 1975 after McLaren had returned from a stint of travelling with the outrageous proto-punk band The New York Dolls and was hatching plans for world domination. Lydon was apparently wearing a Pink Floyd T-Shirt with the words 'I Hate' scrawled in felt-tip pen above their name when offered the job. He was always an unlikely candidate to be involved in someone else's media scam though, being at all times un-cooperative, touchy and supremely self-confident.

His interest in dub music and his post-Sex Pistols work with PiL and artists such as Afrika Bambaataa and Leftfield showed him to be far more musically sophisticated than his Pistols persona suggested. Indeed, Malcolm McLaren was said to have been quite upset when Lydon revealed during a radio interview that his influences included Can, Captain Beefheart and Van Der Graaf Generator. Such acts were not in keeping with the 'punk' image McLaren wished to see projected.

Today Lydon is a freelance counter-culture journalist in Los Angeles and has reported from events such as the Seattle Riots.

In January 2004, Lydon appeared on British reality television programme I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here!, which took place in Australia. He proved he still had the capability to shock by calling the show's viewers "fucking cunts" during a live broadcast. The television regulator and ITV, the channel broadcasting the show, between them received 91 complaints about Lydon's use of bad language.

In an interview previous to the show's first episode, he had described it as "moronic", and throughout the show's run he had displayed an indifferent attitude to staying and threatened to walk out on numerous occasions. 30 hours following ex football star Neil Ruddock's departure, Lydon left the show for unclear reasons. British newspapers claimed that Lydon had won a £100 bet with Ruddock over who would stay in the longest. Lydon, however, stated on air that he felt he would win outright and that it would be unfair to the other celebrities for him to win. He also loudly proclaimed dislike for a fellow competitor, British glamour model Jordan, though it is unclear whether this was any more than pure theatre or contributed to his leaving the show.