![]() Now on the other hand we have John Lydon, Esq. Unfortunately, nearly every time he presses button A, up pops reaction B. Jimmy has also got a lot of bottle, a lot of heart and he’s absolutely sincere in his determination to carry on the punk ethic, which he sees as basic, spontaneous rock ‘n’ roll by “the kids”, for “the kids”. But then, as another gent recently observed, it’s better to be mugs than smug. That’s because he’s honest and, like most of us, he’s no genius and he’s naive about a lot of things. Jimmy’s got a lot of mouth (the few quotes here are just a tiny part of a non-stop, two hour rap) and, by his own admission, nearly every time he opens it he makes an idiot of himself. On the one hand we have Jimmy Pursey, Esq. Now let’s stop and consider for a minute. Now what is ‘e trying to cause? Eh? Is he trying to set one lot of kids against another? He’s all full of shit.” “But if you listen to that shit (Lydon), he’ll say he’s a punk rocker one day, then next thing he’s saying it’s a load of shit, rock ‘n’ roll’s dead, disco music is best. “Let’s bring the disco kids with the Zeppelin kids with the skinheads with the Hell’s Angels. “Punk is about cutting down barriers, not threatening people. Why should I be a threat? We’ve all got too many people threatening us every day of the week already. Punk is a positive force, not a threat? I don’t want to be a threat to anybody. ![]() I came across with what punk was supposed to be about and they didn’t. “You know why they’re mouthing off about me, doncha? he grinned. Jimmy had already answered that particular remark before it was ever made. The week before I interviewed Jimmy Pursey, John and his new cronies had publicly sneered at him in an interview in NME, then of course in last issue’s Smash Hits interview he had another go, saying, “Groups like Sham 69 are so well liked because they just fulfil their ‘rebel’ role. There are several people around who will tell you that Jimmy Pursey has never been sane in his life and is still running around in circles going diddle-o, among them, it would seem, the aforementioned John Lydon. That’s the most important thing.” Jimmy Pursey I want to walk out with a few bob in me pocket, sane, and still a human being. “Most people walk out of rock ‘n’ roll either skint, pilled up to the eyeballs or nutty as a fruitcake. That’s why I’ve tried to step back and be a bit calmer. “But anyway, that was another aggravation on top of all the berks who don’t listen to a word you’re saying. But the kids don’t see that side of you, they just see a cardboard cut-out, not a human being. “I’ve got a load of ulcers in there and I still get terrible pains sometimes. “Me whatsit burst and blew me guts apart,” he continued. I’ve been cut up,” he explained, baring a scarred belly for inspection. I’ve never actually spoken about this before but my insides ain’t all that good. “Also, what a lot of people don’t understand, I was having a bad time in myself. I was so close to death that time, I said to myself, never, ever again will I go through that. “That time I took all those drugs, I was chasing myself, running round in circles thinking WHY WON’T PEOPLE LISTEN!!! I was going diddle-o. Because you think you can change something and the odds are you can’t. “The more you believe in something,” Pursey says, “the more chance there is of you either going nuts or killing yourself. It’s that kind of moronic stupidity that starts Jim’s head reeling. The only thing a certain section of Sham fans seem to want to unite is their boot with somebody else’s head. Like, for instance, why is it that two of the most prominent characters to emerge out of the punk movement can’t seem to agree about anything and invariably attack one another in print?Īnd why it is that Jimmy ‘If The Kids Are United’ Sham has his most loyal following amongst lunkhead lurchers who hate, as in HATE, nearly everybody except themselves. So let’s all unite for once in our diddle-o-ness and try to sort something out. And although he didn’t admit it in his interview with Danny Baker in last issue’s Smash Hits, it seems obvious to me that John Lydon is as diddle-o as any of us. ![]() If you ever stop to think about anything at all seriously then you’re almost bound to go diddle-o from time to time. Instead, the good book will probably come up with something like, “Confused: thrown into disorder, mixed up.” That’s diddle-o. Actually he’s got a great many words to say about everything, most of them unprintable, but the particular word I mean is “Diddle-o”. Jimmy Pusey Jimmy Pursey talks to Smash Hits
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |