I was a teenage Sex Pistol Paperback – June 1, 1998

Enjoyable memoir from the REAL bassist of the Sexpistols.No offence to SidViceous.He would have made a good frontman.with this book you get a point of view from somebody you never hear about,but who was extremely important to the story,both musically and personally.Make sure you get the later addition with the bonus chapter.

Great book from a man who was in the epicenter of what was the Sex Pistols. Informative yet entertaining, does not hold back. Eye-opening on who the other band members were and the relationship they had. Cleared the air on little Maclaren really had to with anything. Buy it!

Love the cockney rhyming slang. Easy to read and a lot of great anecdotes about the early formation and strategy behind the sex pistols.

Do not try to use this as a good play for detailed information. It only has about two dates in it.

I had for years been meaning to grab this book and give it a read. After all, the original bassist for the Sex Pistols must have some good "behind the scenes" insight to the Pistols, including the 1996 reunion (which I am proud to say I attended when they came to NYC). I was not disappointed. For all of the crap that has been thrown at Glen Matlock over the years (mostly by Johnny Rotten) it's good to see that he really doesn't come across with an axe to grind against Johnny, or anybody else including Sid Vicious. What you do get is a revealing insight of not only the band but also of himself and where he fits into the whole legend of the band. Glen was in the band from the very beginning, so of course a good amount of the book is devoted to what was happening to him and the band up until the day he left. Also very interesting is that Glen reveals that he offered to teach Sid how to play the Pistols music on bass, but Sid never showed up (which the band would find out later, especially the disaster that the American 1978 tour turned out to be). One comment I heard that Glen made was that he quit the Pistols because they were becoming too much like The Monkees (meaning McLaren was pulling all the strings and the band were his puppets)...which he does mention in this book. He also talks about the "Vicious White Kids" project which included *drum roll please* Sid Vicious on vocals.Simply put, if you're a fan you will enjoy this book, and maybe even have a little more respect for the guy who wrote most of the music for the band. Interesting note about that by the way, on the DVD about how the "Bollocks" album was made, Steve Jones (guitarist) said that if the band had not sacked Glenn, and hadn't done the Bill Grundy Show (which to this day still lives in infamy...if you don't know why then look it up on YouTube) then the band probably had at least another 2, perhaps even 3 records in them. What else can I say besides I really enjoyed reading this one, and I think you will too.T

This book is by far the most honest and candid telling of the Sex Pistol's story. Other books (England's Dreaming) and films (The Filth and The Fury) tell it in a dramatic fashion set against the socio-political backdrop of 1970 Britain, but this one is "just the facts" told by a guy who was there for all of it (well, the parts that mattered anyway).Recommended for those who want to know the story without any of McLaren's "boy band" revisionism.

This book was a lot shorter than I thought it would be, but it was still a great read. I was surprised how little mud Glen threw at the other Pistols considering the amount of abuse they have given him over the years. If you like British punk , and you want an easy read on its origins, and what it was like to be in a punk band, this is the book for you

The book was as advertised, many thx

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