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Nils came over and said, there’s a big, black limousine outside, waiting for you, a Daimler. We were just sitting around waiting to go on for our set run through.
I was very innocent about hard drugs in those days. But I still didn’t think any more about it. He looked right at me as if I had the brain of a tablecloth and said in that big, booming American voice of his, he-ro-in, boy. Oh yeah, he said, I really like that one myself – pleased he was, but cocky like he is. I really enjoyed the band, I said, I really liked that one called ‘Chinese Rocks’. Jerry Nolan, the drummer, sat down next to me. When they’d finished playing we went over and introduced ourselves. These days he works on Wall Street and makes a fortune – or so Thunders would have it.Īlthough Malcolm used to manage The Dolls we’d never met any of them. And those glasses always made him look a bit spazzy. Walter Lure – The heartbreakers’ other singer and guitarist and a perfect foil to Johnny Thunders – has a brain tumour and only has weeks to live. There’s a really weird rumour going round, he said. But The Heartbreakers were really cocksure and confident, most likely because of all the gigs they’d done between them. We’d seen all these new English punk bands who sounded so weak. They sounded really good and, like most American bands, could really play. Hell had since departed and it was now down to a four-piece featuring Thunders, Walter Lure, Jerry Nolan – also from The Dolls – on drums and Billy Rath on bass. This was the band formed by Malcolm’s old mates from New York, Johnny Thunders – who was in the The New York Dolls – and Richard Hell, who I’ve already mentioned. We turned up at Harlesden about halfway through The Heartbreakers’ set. we didn’t have to pick up the tab for their traveling expenses. Well maybe also the fact that they paid their own way – i.e. They meant more bums on seats, nothing more.
So Malcolm got them on the tour, despite the fact that he couldn’t stand their manager, Jake Riviera. He says they were on it because Malcolm had realised that they’d already played loads of shows around the country and had proved to be good crowd pullers. Rat Scabies will always say that the main reason they were on the tour was nothing to do with punk solidarity or any ideas of the Larry Parnes-style package tour. But the consensus was that they shouldn’t be second on the bill – which is how they were advertised – but bottom. Apart from us, by far the best-known band of the other three were the Damned. It was a package tour – us, The Clash, The Heartbreakers and The Damned – and we had to practice equipment changeovers and time each band’s set.
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We were using this cinema for full stage rehearsals. By the time I’d waited for two buses and got back to the cinema he’d gone home for the day and I’d missed half the film. I had to go home and fetch my birth certificate and come back. I tried to pay but the bloke on the door said you’re underage, I’m not letting you in. When you’re old enough that’s the thrill of being grown up. I’d seen them before, of course, but that’s not the same thing.
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I went there to see an X movie – I Am Curious, Yellow – the very first day I was old enough to see one legitimately. This particular dump was in Harlesden, right around the corner from where I grew up. It was December 1 and we were rehearsing for the ‘Anarchy’ tour in the usual kind of dump you use to rehearse in.
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If there’s one thing that everyone – even if they’ve never listened to a rock ‘n’ roll record in their life – knows about The Sex Pistols, it’s that we appeared on the Bill Grundy show, we swore and some bloke got so annoyed by us he kicked in his TV set. “I was a Teenage Sex Pistol” available on and wherever books are sold.