That being said, you gotta admire Pope’s chutzpah, as well as his willingness to give Pop the most screen time he had prior to his starring role in this year’s Blood Orange. The gambit didn’t work and neither does this movie.’City of Angels is an uneven sequel to an equally uneven original. In an interview he gave just prior to this film’s release, Iggy super fan and veteran music video Director Tim Pope stated that he agreed to direct the film primarily in the hope that he could finally make the Stooges 1969 proto-punk anthem “I Wanna Be Your Dog” a Top 40 single. In large part, because Sid (Queen lead singer Freddy Mercury once mockingly called Vicious “Simon Ferocious” ) Vicious killed his groupie girlfriend and overdosed decades before all his lucrative mystique could dry up and blow away in the arid, overfamiliar environs of Reddit and Twitter.įor that reason, it’s fitting that in one of Pop’s greatest film cameos, he spends about a whole second-and-a-half on a stairway landing, just wordlessly smirking upward at Gary Oldman’s dope sick Vicious while the world’s favorite “punk rocker” looks for a legendary bohemian toilet to puke in. McClaren ripped the cover off said book, scribbled out Pop’s name, wrote his own name in its place, made it a best seller, and at the end of the whole sorry mess, a glorified mannequin who was promoted to bass player only after the ‘Pistols only studio album was already recorded becomes the most famous punk rocker in history. Which demonstrates in a backhanded way that whether Lydon appreciates it or not, he is very aware of how important McClaren was to his recording career.īut what’s Lydon bitching about, really? Pop wrote the punk book that nobody read the first go ’round. The ‘Pistol’s lead singer Johnny Lydon (or Rotten if you’re bent that way) talks shit about McClaren from the front to back covers of his 1996 autobiography, No Blacks, Dogs, Irish.
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The punk rock puppet ‘Sex Pistols finally managed to figure out how to make a comfortable living off of punk rock, or at least their “Stromboli” puppet master/manager, Malcolm McClaren figured out how to make a living off of the ‘Pistol’s. Nazi defying 1936 Olympic hero Jesse Owens once quipped “You can’t eat gold medals.” Iggy could likely confirm that it’s also tough buying peanut butter to smear across your lithe stomach when cashing “Godfather of Punk” checks down at the corner liquor store.
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