God Save the Wii: Reloaded Sex Pistols Bring 'Anarchy' to Guitar Hero III
Not to invoke the oft-repeated joke about lesbians, but maybe this time the clue really was in the shoes. Earlier this season, bus shelter advertisements emblazoned with the phrase, “God Save Queens,” cleverly emerged in gayborhoods, among other places, to promote that enduring American footwear icon, these days manufactured in China, the Chuck Taylor All Star. In retrospect, the ads, inspired by the classic Sex Pistols song, seem to have toe tapped – sorry, Senator - into a larger punk rock revival now sweeping the Transatlantic.
Brace for the Antichirst, because the living members of that legendary punk rock band, the Sex Pistols, recently announced a series of upcoming reunion shows to celebrate the 30th anniversary of their immeasurably influential album, Never Mind the Bollocks … Here’s The Sex Pistols. The group, which split in 1978, before the untimely death of bassist Sid Viscious, also said it would release a special vinyl edition of the album on October 29.
In addition, those who cannot mosh across the pond to see Johnny Rotten snarl in person can still catch the Sex Pistols in Activisions’s upcoming release, Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock. The edgy pentagenarians revealed that they entered the studio to re-record “Anarchy in the U.K.,” and possibly other tunes, for the video game due on October 26. Supposedly, the songs had to be re-recorded because the masters of the original recordings went missing.
Is that the sound of O.J. practicing his chords?
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