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Sex Pistols Turned Down Olympics
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The Sex Pistols turned down the chance to play at the Olympics. The legendary punk band were asked to reform and perform at the huge summer sporting event in London, but singer John Lydon turned the opportunity down as it doesn't fit with his punk ideology.
"They tried to get us involved in the Olympics, and what they wanted to do was, they're going to do this thing where celebrities go around the stadium on the back of flat top lorries. So there will be Naomi Campbell in a Vivienne Westwood dress, followed by Madness doing 'Baggy Trousers,' and then the Pistols doing 'Pretty Vacant.' But without the 'vay-****,' just 'pretty' and the word 'censored.' So the answer is, 'no f***ing way.' Don't need it, don't want it," he told NME Magazine.
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