Sid Vicious recorded "My Way" in 1978 for The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle, the film closely associated with Sex Pistols manager Malcolm McLaren. Rather than imitating Frank Sinatra's elegant interpretation, Vicious transformed the classic into a deliberately chaotic and confrontational performance. His sarcastic delivery and the song's explosive finale perfectly embodied the rebellious and self-destructive image that made him one of punk's most notorious figures.
Released in 1978 as part of The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle soundtrack, "My Way" was originally adapted into English by Paul Anka from the 1967 French song Comme d'habitude and was famously recorded by Frank Sinatra in 1969. Although Sid Vicious's version was never a major chart hit, it became one of the most iconic reinterpretations in punk history, thanks to its provocative music video and its enduring status as a symbol of the punk movement's irreverent spirit.
Behold, one of my favouritist ever parodys of a British TV programme. It is, of course, The Great British P*ss Up, as seen originally on The Keith Lemon Show over a decade ago and featuring Leigh Francis, John Thomson and the marvellous Tom Davis.
Good day.
On this day in 1979, #TheClash performed the first of two shows at The Palladium in NYC. At the end of the second show, Paul Simonon smashed his bass guitar on stage.
The iconic photo taken by Pennie Smith was later used for the album cover of “London Calling."
Anybody remember this? Still one of the funniest clips.
“Who are you?”
Not just Jeremy Corbyn here, look who’s sat right next to him…. it’s his left hand man Andy Burnham.
Let’s be honest, they look exactly as expected, the only surprise is that they have moved up the evolutionary scale from a shit caravan with chrome on the sides to a council house.
RN introduces 'Round Again Coxswain' project to repair & reuse or recycle huge backlog of spares and assets in storage.
Warehouse in Portsmouth alone houses approx 84,000 items deemed repairable – with a collective value of c£200m.
A £50 Lesson...
I recently asked my friend's little girl what she wanted to be when she grows up. She said she wanted to be Prime Minister of Great Britain someday.
Both of her parents, woke wankered Labourites, were standing there, so I asked her, 'If you were Prime Minister, what would be the first thing you would do?'
She replied, 'I'd give food and houses to all the homeless people.'
Her parents beamed with pride.
'Wow, what a worthy goal.' I told her. 'But you don't have to wait until you're Prime Minister to do that. You can come over to my house and mow the lawn, pull weeds, and sweep my driveway, and I'll pay you £50. Then I'll take you over to the supermarket where the homeless guy hangs out, and you can give him the £50 to use toward food and a new house.'
She thought that over for a few seconds, then she looked me straight in the eye and asked, 'Why doesn't the homeless guy come over and do the work, and you can just pay him the £50?'
I said, 'Welcome to @RestoreBritain'.
Her parents still aren't speaking to me.
A home theater installer has calibrated over 3,000 TVs in 12 years from $400 budget sets to $15,000 flagship OLEDs in custom media rooms.
He walks into people's homes, looks at their TV for 5 seconds, and can tell them exactly what's wrong.
He told me: "Almost every TV I see is running in the same mode Best Buy uses under fluorescent showroom lights. The motion smoothing is on. The sharpness is cranked. The eco dimmer is cutting brightness by 30–40%. And the TV is taking a screenshot of the screen every few seconds and selling the viewing data to advertisers. People are watching a $1,500 panel the same way it looked on the store shelf and that's the worst possible way to watch it."
He said a properly calibrated TV doesn't look "better." It looks like a completely different television.
He changed 9 settings on my TV in 15 minutes.
The soap opera effect disappeared. The colors became natural. Skin tones stopped looking plastic.
Dark scenes became visible. The TV stopped spying on me. And a movie finally looked like a movie instead of a daytime talk show.
"TV manufacturers ship every set optimized for a showroom, not a living room. Then they bury the settings that fix it inside 6 menus nobody opens."
Here are the 9 things he changed: