SEX PISTOLS Great Rock n Roll Swindle 2 x Vinyl LP 1979 Gatefold Punk Rock Album

	£		20
	$		27

SEX PISTOLS Great Rock n Roll Swindle 2 x Vinyl LP 1979 Gatefold Punk Rock Album.
Some damage to the spine (see photo). I haven’t played the album in years but will check it before sending it out.
The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle is the soundtrack album of the film of the same name by the Sex Pistols.

Production

By the time the soundtrack was being prepared, Johnny Rotten (Lydon) had left the band and refused to participate in the project. Manager Malcolm McClaren was left with a major problem - how to sell a double LP soundtrack with no songs featuring the Sex Pistol's dynamic, original vocalist. Desperate for a "workaround", McClaren discovered an October 1976 rehearsal session by the original lineup. In an effort to keep up their "chops", the band would rehearse during downtime at Wessex Studios while attempting to record the 'Anarchy In The UK' 7" single for EMIwith producer Dave Goodman in October 1976. Goodman secretly caught the rehearsal on tape. The band ran through some cover songs, many of which were staples at early Sex Pistols shows, along with a few more obscure tracks. Unfortunately, the recording was raw and being a simple four-track recording, it was not suitable for commercial release. McClaren then decided to take John Lydon's vocal track along with Glen Matlock's (also long gone from the band) original bass track and combine them with newly re-recorded guitar and drum tracks performed by Steve Jones and Paul Cook . McClaren suddenly had "new" Sex Pistols material suitable for release and performed exclusively by the original lineup. Better still, fans of the band had never heard these recordings. This tactic also gave the impression that the original band was still together. McClaren used this confusion and the "new" material to market and promote not only the movie soundtrack, but the film itself. The original rehearsal recording (without the newly recorded, overdubbed tracks) eventually appeared, in its entirety, on the Sex Pistols Box Set released by Virgin Records in 2002.[1]

The double album features a significant number of tracks that omit Lydon entirely, most of them written and recorded after he had left the band. 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.

Two further tracks were recorded along with "Lonely Boy" and "Silly Thing" between May and July 1978; "Black Leather" and "Here We Go Again". While the two songs did not end up on either the film or the soundtrack, both were later released on a 7" single as part of the Sex Pistols "Pistols Pack" 6 single plastic wallet collection (released as a box set in Greece), as well as on the Japanese "The Very Best Of Sex Pistols" LP.[1]

Along with Rotten, people who sang on The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle include:

• Paul Cook – lead vocals on "Silly Thing" (1978), backing vocals on "The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle" (1979)
• Steve Jones – lead vocals on "Lonely Boy", backing vocals on "The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle", lead vocals on "Friggin' in the Riggin" and lead vocals on the single release of "Silly Thing" (1978)
• Ronnie Biggs – lead vocals on "No One Is Innocent", "Belsen Vos a Gassa" (1978)
• Malcolm McLaren – lead vocals on "You Need Hands" (1979)
• Edward Tudor-Pole – lead vocals on "Rock Around the Clock", "Who Killed Bambi", "The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle", (1979)
• Sid Vicious – lead vocals on "My Way", "C'mon Everybody", "Something Else" (1978)

No. Title Writer(s) Vocals Length 1. "God Save the Queen (Symphony)" (orchestral rendition with spoken word over the music about how punk rock and the Sex Pistols were "invented") Johnny Rotten, Steve Jones, Glen Matlock, Paul Cook Malcolm McLaren 3:23 2. "Rock Around the Clock" Max C. Freedman, James E. Myers Edward Tudor-Pole 2:04 3. "Johnny B Goode" Chuck Berry Johnny Rotten 2:36 4. "Roadrunner" Jonathan Richman Johnny Rotten 3:47 5. "Black Arabs" (disco medley, includes "Anarchy in the UK", "God Save the Queen", "Pretty Vacant" and "No One is Innocent") Rotten, Jones, Matlock, Cook, Ronnie Biggs Black Arabs 4:51 6. "Anarchy in the UK" Rotten, Jones, Matlock, Cook Johnny Rotten 3:32 7. "Watcha Gonna Do About It?" Ian Samwell, Steve Marriott, Ronnie Lane Johnny Rotten 1:55 8. "Who Killed Bambi?" Edward Tudor-Pole/Vivienne Westwood Edward Tudor-Pole 3:07 9. "Silly Thing" Jones, Cook Paul Cook 2:51 10. "Substitute" Pete Townshend Johnny Rotten 3:10 11. "Don't Give Me No Lip, Child" Barry Richards, Jean Thomas, Don Thomas Johnny Rotten 3:27 12. "(I'm Not Your) Steppin' Stone" Tommy Boyce, Bobby Hart Johnny Rotten 3:06 13. "Lonely Boy" Jones, Cook Steve Jones 3:07 14. "Something Else" Eddie Cochran, Sharon Sheeley Sid Vicious 2:14 15. "L'Anarchie pour le UK" (performed by a trio of French street musicians with accordion and fiddle, lyrics translated by Louis Brennon. (alternate title: "Anarchie pour le UK")) Rotten, Jones, Matlock, Cook Jerzimy 3:28 16. "Einmal war Belsen Vortrefflich" Rotten, Jones, Sid Vicious, Cook Johnny Rotten 2:12 17. "Einmal war Belsen wirklich Vortrefflich" Rotten, Jones, Vicious, Cook Ronnie Biggs 2:17 18. "No One Is Innocent" Jones, Cook, Biggs Ronnie Biggs 3:04 19. "My Way" Paul Anka, Claude François, Jacques Revaux Sid Vicious 4:06 20. "C'mon Everybody" Eddie Cochran, Jerry Capehart Sid Vicious 1:56 21. "EMI (Orch)" (orchestral rendition with Steve Jones speaking the lyrics) Rotten, Jones, Matlock, Cook Steve Jones 3:44 22. "The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle" Jones, Cook, Julien Temple Edward Tudor-Pole, Steve Jones, Paul Cook & others 4:21 23. "You Need Hands" Max Bygraves Malcolm McLaren 2:54 24. "Friggin' in the Riggin'" Traditional; arranged by Jones Steve Jones 3:37

On 15-Jun-22 at 08:53:23 BST, seller added the following information:

I have now played all four sides and there are two skips. One on c’mon everybody and one on No One is Innocent.