Short History of The Sex Pistols

The band that would become the Sex Pistols originally started in 1972 by three Shepherds Bush truants.Warwick “Wally”Nightingle,Steve Jones and paul Cook.Jones as singer,Cook as drummer,nightingale on guitar.The Paul Cook .The Strand,as they became known,would occasionally be joined on organ by jim Mackin,and Stephen Hayes on bass who has later replaced by Paul Cook’s brother in law Del Noones.However,the basic trio was to be jones,cook and nightingle .The had no hopes of stardom;it was just ‘laugh’ , ‘something to do’.However,it also gave them ‘something to do’with all musical equipment Steve Jones had ‘acquired’by hook or crook.Already a petty thief as a kid,without the sex pistols,Steve Jones,life would have ended up very different.The band would mess around rehearsals,playing covers by the likes of The Who and The Small Faces.Firstly,the Furniture Cave in king Rd,Then later the BBC’s Riverside Studio in Hammersmith.Keys provided for free by Wally’s dad who had a contract to refurbish the building.The strand had a great rehearsal room and the best of gear…They just couldn’t play.Cook and Jones started as they meant to go on….