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Jones’ talk at the Grammy is the latest in a busy series of public programs that has included about 500 events since the museum opened in 2008. I don’t know, it was just star quality,” he said. “I liked the way John looked when I first saw him. He could have been a big star Sid, if he could have turned it all around,” Jones said.Īnd when he first met Rotten, Jones was impressed with his style. He was one of them guys who stood out, you were drawn to him. “I thought he was a star when I first saw him. The Sex Pistols included lead singer Johnny Rotten and later bassist Sid Vicious, who became a punk icon for his uncontrollably wild and ultimately destructive lifestyle that lead to his arrest for the alleged murder of his girlfriend and eventually his death in 1979 at the age of 21. To be part of something that made a shift in music, that was kind of revolutionary. When you’re young you just dive in and there’s no idea that we would still be talking about this 40 years later,” he said.
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“We didn’t know what we were doing, I guess that was the beauty of it. They were only together for three years, but in that time the band’s chaotic career in many ways reinvigorated and changed the way people thought about rock ‘n’ roll, although back then that wasn’t immediately obvious to Jones. The band eventually became the Sex Pistols in 1975. Jones, whose voice can still be heard daily on the radio as the host of Jonesy’s Jukebox on KLOS-FM (95.5), co-founded QT Jones and the Sex Pistols with drummer Paul Cook. “Obviously we’re the Grammy Museum so we’re going to focus on his musical work but it’s interesting to talk to an artist and get into their back story a little bit and connect the dots in terms of who they are as a person to who they are as musicians.” “We’ll talk about the book because the book covers a lot about his life, including the music,” Goldman said. The book release and Grammy talk will coincide with the 40th anniversary of the band’s platinum debut album, “Never Mind the Bollocks,” released in 1977. “I’m a lot happier where I am now then when I was 20 years old,” Jones added during a recent interview. It would be a pretty twisted kind of God who would say ‘Let’s abuse that child so he can go off the rails and form a band.’ But looking back, I do feel like someone or something - God, destiny, whatever you want to call it - definitely threw me a lifeline in giving me music to hang onto,” Jones writes in the book. “When it comes to what defines me as a person, a lot of the best things in my life have come about because of the worst things, which is a weird one when you try and think about divine intervention and all that bollocks. The 320-page memoir is filled with brutally honest accounts of his life. It will be moderated by Grammy Foundation Vice President Scott Goldman and it happens on the same day of the release of Jones’ autobiography “Lonely Boy: Tales of a Sex Pistol,” on Da Capo Press. Jones’ appearance at the museum is part of the Grammy’s busy lineup of public programs that features conversations with artists at the 200-seat Clive Davis Theater.