He had talent but unfortunately the drugs came into play. Regardless that he could barely play a note I do believe he could've been a star. He was the one who got hooked on heroin and died young (Vicious overdosed in Manhattan in 1979 at age 21). You recorded most of the bass tracks on “Never Mind the Bollocks.” Now Sid is immortalized as a punk icon and T-shirts bearing his image can be found at department stores. Sid Vicious could hardly play a note on the bass and was a heroin addict. We weren't a band we were always all over the place. Although it was fun at the time it was probably the worst thing that could’ve happened because all the attention was on the antics and not the music. Then everything became so chaotic after the appearance with Bill Grundy (the band became instantly infamous after Jones and Rotten cursed a blue streak at the host of the popular English television show “Today”). Did you think the Sex Pistols would last or did you have a feeling that the band was destined to make just one album? If I had left that out the book wouldn’t have been complete. At the end of the day it's part of the story. I definitely thought about it before I let everyone in the world know about it. Was it difficult addressing that subject? You write in the beginning of your book about being sexually abused by your stepfather. Jones, who has released several solo albums and hosts the radio show “Jonesy’s Jukebox” in Los Angeles, recently spoke by phone from his L.A. The band also included singer Johnny Rotten, drummer Paul Cook and bassist Glen Matlock, who was later replaced by sneering punk icon Sid Vicious. Jones’ slashing chords were integral to the Sex Pistols sound. The band flamed out following the album’s release amid a storm of personality clashes and a disastrous American tour. While American punk progenitors the Ramones sang about falling in love and going to the beach, the Sex Pistols championed “Anarchy in the U.K.,” skewered the political class on “God Save the Queen” and sang about having “No Feelings” on their sole album, “Never Mind the Bollocks Here’s the Sex Pistols” (1977). He will sign copies of his new book, “Lonely Boy: Tales from a Sex Pistol,” on Jan. with their furious, nihilistic outbursts railing against societal and political norms. The band is credited with creating punk rock in the U.K. Jones would co-found infamous punk pioneers the Sex Pistols in 1975. There was no way I was going to do regular work.” “It just seemed like music was the obvious choice for me from an early age.
“You could be a football player or be in a band or win the lottery,” Jones said. Steve Jones figured he had three options to escape a mundane working class existence in 1970s England.