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Sex Pistols - Great Rock 'N' Roll Swindle - Vinyl LP 1979
Sold Date:
January 12, 2017
Start Date:
January 5, 2017
Final Price:
£14.50
(GBP)
Bid Count:
8
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My albums are from a private collection collected over some 40 years. All have been played and loved and well looked after. All are in a good condition unless otherwise stated
Virgin VD2510 1979
Gatefold Cover – Good
Vinyl – Excellent (Double Album)
24 tracks with paper insert (no stickers)
The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle is the soundtrack album of by the . It also includes performances by other artists.
By the time the soundtrack was being prepared, had left the band and refused to participate in the project, so the "proper" Sex Pistols tracks were done by taking Lydon's vocals from the October 1976 demo session recordings and rerecording their instrumental tracks (done by and ).
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 , the title track and "Who Killed Bambi?" sung by , 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 as Sex Pistols singles.
Along with Rotten, people who sang on The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle include:
· – lead vocals on "" (1978), backing vocals on "The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle" (1979)
· – lead vocals on "Lonely Boy", backing vocals on "The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle", lead vocals on "" and lead vocals on the single release of "Silly Thing" (1978)
· – lead vocals on "", "Belsen Vos a Gassa" (1978)
· – lead vocals on "You Need Hands" (1979)
· – lead vocals on "", "Who Killed Bambi", "The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle", (1979)
· – lead vocals on "", "", "" (1978)
