The inspiration? Seeing adverts around Stuttgart for Sting performing orchestral versions of Police hits, as well as songs from his even more regrettable solo career. It's like a live rendition of Swindle, sans the irony.
Joel
On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 12:39 AM, Angelus Novus
<fuerdenkommunismus at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> John Gulick:
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>> For the longest time Lydon's leading charm has been his willful hypocrisy
>
> What hypocrisy? Lydon has never pretended to be any kind of leftist. In fact
> he has proclaimed his hostility to socialism on numerous occasions.
>
> The Situationist posturing of the Sex Pistols was 100% McLaren's influence;
> whatever one's feelings about McLaren's relationship to the band, I think Jon
> Savage's book England's Dreaming makes a rather convincing case that the most
> interesting aspects of the Sex Pistols were entirely due to McLaren: the image
> he created for them, the discursive context he placed them in, the influences he
> claimed for them, etc.
>
> The Sex Pistols were rather dire guitar-driven sludge rock. John Lydon's only
> interesting *musical* output are the first two PiL albums (and that's not a
> slight; Metal Box would make my top ten list of rock/pop albums ever).
>
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