0:00:02 > 0:00:05This programme contains strong language.
0:00:07 > 0:00:08Oh, where am I?
0:00:08 > 0:00:11Oh, Auntie, it's so nice to be back.
0:00:11 > 0:00:13I think I must have fallen asleep -
0:00:13 > 0:00:16and you'll never guess where I went in my dream.
0:00:16 > 0:00:18This is BBC One.
0:00:18 > 0:00:22# A ray of hope
0:00:22 > 0:00:27# Flickers in the sky
0:00:27 > 0:00:30# A tiny star
0:00:30 > 0:00:35# Lights up way up high
0:00:35 > 0:00:42# All across the land dawns a brand-new morn
0:00:42 > 0:00:46# This comes to pass
0:00:46 > 0:00:50# When a child is born
0:00:50 > 0:00:58# A silent wish sails the seven seas
0:00:58 > 0:01:02# The winds of change
0:01:02 > 0:01:06# Whisper in the trees
0:01:06 > 0:01:13# And the walls of doubt crumble tossed and torn
0:01:13 > 0:01:20# This comes to pass when a child is born... #
0:01:23 > 0:01:27Once upon a time, many, many Christmases ago,
0:01:27 > 0:01:30in a small industrial town in Yorkshire,
0:01:30 > 0:01:35during another winter of discontent, a kind of miracle took place.
0:01:35 > 0:01:37The stars shone down on a frosty night
0:01:37 > 0:01:41and the snow lay deep and even.
0:01:41 > 0:01:45Summat strange happened that night that's still worth celebrating,
0:01:45 > 0:01:48which sheds a lurid light on the Great British Christmas
0:01:48 > 0:01:51as we still know it today.
0:01:51 > 0:01:53Summat took place in Huddersfield,
0:01:53 > 0:01:58summat that might still tickle your fancy on the Yuletide sofa,
0:01:58 > 0:01:59this many, many years later.
0:01:59 > 0:02:03Let's all now share a collective eruption,
0:02:03 > 0:02:05and let the story commence.
0:02:05 > 0:02:09Very happy Christmas, and it's nice to be all together once again.
0:02:09 > 0:02:10Bootiful.
0:02:10 > 0:02:14They're bootiful, really bootiful.
0:02:20 > 0:02:24Welcome to Christmas Day festivities at Ivanhoe's in West Yorkshire,
0:02:24 > 0:02:25and it's going to be a goody today,
0:02:25 > 0:02:28my word, oh, yeah, it IS going to be a goody.
0:02:28 > 0:02:30Sex Pistols is the name of the game,
0:02:30 > 0:02:33they're the guys who are putting on this free party for you today.
0:02:33 > 0:02:37We've got some terrific prizes for you, we've got some albums,
0:02:37 > 0:02:41singles, skateboards to give away - fantastico.
0:02:41 > 0:02:46# She's crazy like a fool
0:02:46 > 0:02:49# What about it Daddy Cool
0:02:49 > 0:02:52# I'm crazy like a fool
0:02:53 > 0:02:57# What about it Daddy Cool
0:02:57 > 0:03:01# Daddy Daddy Cool
0:03:01 > 0:03:04# Daddy Daddy Cool
0:03:04 > 0:03:08# Daddy Daddy Cool
0:03:08 > 0:03:12# Daddy Daddy Cool... #
0:03:12 > 0:03:16"Daddy Cool, Daddy..." I hated that fucking song.
0:03:17 > 0:03:19That was a shithouse song.
0:03:19 > 0:03:21Horrible.
0:03:21 > 0:03:23# Daddy Daddy Cool... #
0:03:23 > 0:03:24I loved Daddy Cool.
0:03:26 > 0:03:28Yes, loved Boney M.
0:03:29 > 0:03:32# Daddy Cool, Daddy... # It's fucking horrible.
0:03:32 > 0:03:33Give us another one.
0:03:33 > 0:03:36# And all the bells on earth shall ring
0:03:36 > 0:03:38# On Christmas Day, on Christmas Day
0:03:38 > 0:03:40# All the bells on earth shall ring
0:03:40 > 0:03:42# On Christmas Day in the morning. #
0:03:42 > 0:03:43Hello! Hello, hello!
0:03:43 > 0:03:45And a very, very merry Christmas to you.
0:03:45 > 0:03:47Welcome to the Christmas edition of Top Of The Pops,
0:03:47 > 0:03:50we hope that you got the pressies you wanted, and the pudding
0:03:50 > 0:03:52isn't lying too heavy, because, er, bit of dancing to do.
0:03:52 > 0:03:54# Oh, yes, sir, I can boogie... #
0:03:54 > 0:03:56They always had the traditional Top Of The Pops countdown
0:03:56 > 0:03:59on Christmas Day, and they all had their silly hats on,
0:03:59 > 0:04:02and tinsel everywhere, and, you know,
0:04:02 > 0:04:04Dave Lee Travis with his big old beard,
0:04:04 > 0:04:07and a bit of tinsel round his head, and it's like, "Ugh."
0:04:07 > 0:04:11I hope you're enjoying the Boxing Day spirit, like we are.
0:04:11 > 0:04:14That would be the highlight, actually, of the Christmas Day.
0:04:19 > 0:04:25Hello, and welcome to my little series on Christmas know-how.
0:04:27 > 0:04:29There you are, gentlemen.
0:04:29 > 0:04:32This is how we country kids warm our drop of scrumpy up.
0:04:32 > 0:04:34So you can drink more and more and more.
0:04:37 > 0:04:39Ahh.
0:04:39 > 0:04:42Christmas, to me, is not just one room. If you walk into a forest,
0:04:42 > 0:04:44you've got trees everywhere.
0:04:44 > 0:04:48I'd like anybody who walks through that front door to see - tree.
0:04:48 > 0:04:50As they walk in, they see a tree.
0:04:50 > 0:04:52They go through that door, they see another tree.
0:04:52 > 0:04:54When they come in this room, they see four trees.
0:04:54 > 0:04:57I want Christmas everywhere in the house.
0:04:57 > 0:04:59No Christmas must be commercialised, in my opinion.
0:04:59 > 0:05:02# ..we bring pa ra pa pum pum
0:05:02 > 0:05:04# Ra pa pum pum
0:05:04 > 0:05:05# Ra pa pum pum... #
0:05:05 > 0:05:07We're supposed to be saving power at the moment,
0:05:07 > 0:05:10but somebody coming into this room might think you're trying
0:05:10 > 0:05:11to use as much as possible.
0:05:11 > 0:05:13Well, shall I put it this way?
0:05:13 > 0:05:15I love Christmas,
0:05:15 > 0:05:19and I couldn't care less for any government at the present moment.
0:05:19 > 0:05:22Let's have a look and see what it is.
0:05:22 > 0:05:25Look at that! My word, she's going to do well, isn't she?
0:05:25 > 0:05:29Over a hundred patients at Dudley Road Hospital in Birmingham
0:05:29 > 0:05:32were led to safety tonight as troops fought a fire in the basement.
0:05:32 > 0:05:35It took them just over an hour to put out the blaze.
0:05:35 > 0:05:38Four hours' general training and 20-year-old equipment
0:05:38 > 0:05:41isn't much use in tackling a fire where there's dense chemical smoke.
0:05:41 > 0:05:43Two soldiers were overcome.
0:05:43 > 0:05:44A writing competition,
0:05:44 > 0:05:48now, what you have to do is write down what you would have most liked
0:05:48 > 0:05:52for Christmas that you didn't get.
0:05:52 > 0:05:55Did you have a nice Wombling Christmas?
0:05:55 > 0:05:57- ALL: Yeah!- Great!
0:05:57 > 0:06:01MUSIC: Wombling Merry Christmas by The Wombles
0:06:01 > 0:06:03# Open your eyes
0:06:03 > 0:06:07# Look to the skies when you're lonely
0:06:07 > 0:06:14# There will be stars shining for you... #
0:06:16 > 0:06:18Ah, the Wombles of Wimbledon.
0:06:18 > 0:06:20Oh, wasn't that fun, huh?
0:06:20 > 0:06:23Blokes in furry kits with schnozzles.
0:06:23 > 0:06:25I would have thought been a hell of a lot more scary
0:06:25 > 0:06:28than Johnny Rotten and Sid Vicious. But, you know.
0:06:29 > 0:06:32# All day long
0:06:32 > 0:06:37# We will be Wombling in the snow
0:06:37 > 0:06:43# We wish you a Wombling Merry Christmas... #
0:06:45 > 0:06:48We grew up having traditional Christmases, I guess,
0:06:48 > 0:06:49at home, the family.
0:06:49 > 0:06:52It's just like another Sunday lunch for us, really, Christmas.
0:06:52 > 0:06:54With a few presents thrown in.
0:06:54 > 0:06:57We start with the most important of all, the turkey,
0:06:57 > 0:07:00which is, after all, the British national bird.
0:07:00 > 0:07:03Now, this curious pinching movement that I'm doing here
0:07:03 > 0:07:06isn't just silly, but to loosen the skin
0:07:06 > 0:07:10so that afterwards I can put my hand underneath
0:07:10 > 0:07:14and begin the process of lubricating the dry bird.
0:07:14 > 0:07:18Because it doesn't do much for the bird's figure, let's face it.
0:07:18 > 0:07:19Nothing massive, like they are now.
0:07:19 > 0:07:23Everyone goes way over the top, you know? Ridiculous.
0:07:23 > 0:07:27Starts in early November and it just goes on and on and on,
0:07:27 > 0:07:30with all the songs, the adverts, the gifts, and it's awful.
0:07:30 > 0:07:31It's so over-commercialised,
0:07:31 > 0:07:35and people just spend so much money, just seem to get themselves in debt.
0:07:41 > 0:07:4245 seconds, starting from now.
0:07:44 > 0:07:48On the conveyor belt tonight we have a food hamper.
0:07:48 > 0:07:51Everything you remember you will take home with you tonight.
0:07:51 > 0:07:53BRASS BAND PLAYS
0:07:55 > 0:07:58Oxford Street is a thoroughfare of opportunity
0:07:58 > 0:08:00for the dedicated shoplifter,
0:08:00 > 0:08:03mingling with the crowds of Christmas shoppers.
0:08:03 > 0:08:06Most stores have had to take on extra security men
0:08:06 > 0:08:08to counter the shoplifting gangs.
0:08:12 > 0:08:15By and large, toys are far too expensive,
0:08:15 > 0:08:19and with today's salary standstill, one has to make do.
0:08:19 > 0:08:22And, in fact, we make a good deal of the toys for the children.
0:08:22 > 0:08:24I'm making them a fort at the moment,
0:08:24 > 0:08:26my wife is making them a clown's outfit.
0:08:26 > 0:08:28We were very poor.
0:08:28 > 0:08:31Nothing in our house was traditional in the way.
0:08:31 > 0:08:33- CHILDREN SHOUT:- Don't cut back on the beans, Mum!
0:08:33 > 0:08:36Xmas Meanz Beanz!
0:08:36 > 0:08:38# We wish you a merry Christmas
0:08:38 > 0:08:40# We wish you a merry Christmas... #
0:08:40 > 0:08:43But then again, it really wasn't anywhere - I've never seen,
0:08:43 > 0:08:47like, the advertisements you see on TV of the family all
0:08:47 > 0:08:49gathered around the dead, baked bird.
0:08:49 > 0:08:56So, now, I fill it into a nylon icing bag with no pipe affixed,
0:08:56 > 0:09:02and then all I've got to do is just squeeze until the bird's full.
0:09:02 > 0:09:05We had that, but not around a big table.
0:09:05 > 0:09:09It'd be everyone to your own chair, and you eat off your lap.
0:09:09 > 0:09:12I think Christmas time is actually my worst time of the year.
0:09:12 > 0:09:19I still am not a fan of Christmas. It's my least favourite holiday.
0:09:19 > 0:09:22Maybe it's to do with, like, when families get together,
0:09:22 > 0:09:24and I had a shit family.
0:09:30 > 0:09:33I got some shit toy.
0:09:33 > 0:09:36My mum and dad went down the pub and left me by myself,
0:09:36 > 0:09:39from a young age till I left home, basically.
0:09:39 > 0:09:41So - not good.
0:09:42 > 0:09:46Steve used to come round to us for Christmas.
0:09:46 > 0:09:47So, it was a bit tricky for him.
0:09:47 > 0:09:51Well, it's always that image of the grass is greener somewhere else.
0:09:51 > 0:09:53But I think a lot of people,
0:09:53 > 0:09:57if they're honest with themself, are not fans of Christmas.
0:10:00 > 0:10:05I'd love the packaging of the toys more than the toys themselves.
0:10:05 > 0:10:09I can play with a cardboard box, even to this day, and I love that.
0:10:09 > 0:10:13I love the unwrapping of the gift more than the gift itself.
0:10:13 > 0:10:18I can remember a train set - oh, I loved it. Hornby train set.
0:10:18 > 0:10:21I had one from before, you know, an old steam engine,
0:10:21 > 0:10:23but I knew those were old-fashioned.
0:10:23 > 0:10:27I wanted a modern British Rail kit, and I got it!
0:10:27 > 0:10:30WOMAN SINGS: This is the age...
0:10:30 > 0:10:33..of the train. And it was fantastic.
0:10:33 > 0:10:37I was just watching that thing turn round and round and round,
0:10:37 > 0:10:41and then after, say, two hours you're back to playing with the box.
0:10:41 > 0:10:44Cos you could build things out of the box,
0:10:44 > 0:10:46you could build little houses,
0:10:46 > 0:10:49and make little pretend stations for the train to stop at.
0:10:49 > 0:10:50Much more fun.
0:10:50 > 0:10:55# I'm dreaming
0:10:55 > 0:11:01# Of a white Christmas
0:11:01 > 0:11:06# Just like the ones
0:11:06 > 0:11:10# I used to know... #
0:11:10 > 0:11:14Oh, I'm dreaming of a white Christmas.
0:11:14 > 0:11:19Well, the snow was always a problem, because in the very early years
0:11:19 > 0:11:23we used to live in a place called Benwell Mansions.
0:11:23 > 0:11:27That was two rooms, with an outside toilet.
0:11:27 > 0:11:29When the snows were heavy, it meant that you couldn't go
0:11:29 > 0:11:31and use the loo.
0:11:31 > 0:11:35And if you did, you know, certain parts of you could freeze up,
0:11:35 > 0:11:37quite seriously.
0:11:40 > 0:11:44Tanks were set up in the street, but even they froze up,
0:11:44 > 0:11:46and you needed hot water to thaw out the tap
0:11:46 > 0:11:48before you could get cold water to make hot water with.
0:11:48 > 0:11:51CHURCH BELLS RING
0:12:00 > 0:12:03The church thing would be kind of all right at Christmas,
0:12:03 > 0:12:07because I liked the old organs blaring away.
0:12:08 > 0:12:11The hairs on the back of my head would stand up,
0:12:11 > 0:12:13some of the tones and notes,
0:12:13 > 0:12:18which actually led really beautifully into Public Image,
0:12:18 > 0:12:19years later.
0:12:19 > 0:12:23You know, trying to achieve those same horrific,
0:12:23 > 0:12:25yet at the same time joyous tones
0:12:25 > 0:12:29that would frighten you somewhat as a young kid,
0:12:29 > 0:12:35but you never forgot the awe and the power of that as a musical force.
0:12:35 > 0:12:38Were you ever in a nativity play, John?
0:12:38 > 0:12:42There was one I did - and I really liked the outfit.
0:12:42 > 0:12:47It was royal blue satin pants down to the knee with grey socks
0:12:47 > 0:12:50and sandals, of course, working class stylee,
0:12:50 > 0:12:54and a really nice orange jacket that the nuns made,
0:12:54 > 0:12:57and I felt really good in that outfit.
0:12:57 > 0:13:00I wasn't the camel or the donkey. I don't know what part I...
0:13:00 > 0:13:02Maybe one of the three kings.
0:13:02 > 0:13:06But when I came offstage, the nuns are going, "What happened to you?
0:13:06 > 0:13:08"You were terrible!"
0:13:10 > 0:13:13Kind of, you know, could have ruined my acting career.
0:13:13 > 0:13:18# Oops a daisy
0:13:18 > 0:13:22# Ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba... #
0:13:22 > 0:13:25- Steven, how old are you?- Eight.
0:13:25 > 0:13:27- Eight. Are you married?- No.
0:13:27 > 0:13:29- Have you got a girlfriend?- No.
0:13:29 > 0:13:31- Do you think girls are soppy?- Yeah.
0:13:31 > 0:13:33They are, aren't they, really?
0:13:33 > 0:13:35- And how old are you, Sally?- 13.
0:13:35 > 0:13:37- Have you got a boyfriend?- No.
0:13:37 > 0:13:39No. Right.
0:13:39 > 0:13:41# Hands, hands, hands Knees, knees, knees
0:13:41 > 0:13:42# Bump, bumps-a-daisy... #
0:13:42 > 0:13:45I've got one young lady who wants Dad back at work,
0:13:45 > 0:13:48which I think is a very good idea indeed.
0:13:48 > 0:13:49Don't we all, ducky?
0:13:49 > 0:13:50# Woo!
0:13:50 > 0:13:52# Black is black
0:13:52 > 0:13:56# I want my baby back
0:13:56 > 0:13:59# It's grey, it's grey,
0:14:00 > 0:14:04# Since he went away, oh oh
0:14:04 > 0:14:07# What can I do?
0:14:07 > 0:14:09# Cos I...
0:14:09 > 0:14:13# I'm feeling blue
0:14:13 > 0:14:15# Woo!
0:14:15 > 0:14:18# If I had my way
0:14:18 > 0:14:22# He'd be back today
0:14:22 > 0:14:25# But he'd go in time... #
0:14:25 > 0:14:27Our industrial correspondent says it's unlikely
0:14:27 > 0:14:30Mr Callaghan will have anything new to offer the firemen,
0:14:30 > 0:14:31but he will be prepared to listen.
0:14:31 > 0:14:35The strike is still solid. There's no doubt it.
0:14:35 > 0:14:38# I'm feeling blue... #
0:14:46 > 0:14:49The strike had been going on for nine long weeks,
0:14:49 > 0:14:51and many firemen had relied on hand-outs
0:14:51 > 0:14:53to get them through Christmas.
0:14:53 > 0:14:55Firemen's rates of pay are a longstanding grievance.
0:14:55 > 0:14:59£170 a month. What's that? Nothing.
0:14:59 > 0:15:01The firemen began their strike
0:15:01 > 0:15:06expecting a rapid erosion of public support as fires got out of hand.
0:15:06 > 0:15:09But the men on picket duty claim they've been inundated with
0:15:09 > 0:15:11street corner donations and gifts of food.
0:15:15 > 0:15:17This fish shop owner, for instance,
0:15:17 > 0:15:20is offering the firemen four free meals a day.
0:15:20 > 0:15:22# Woo!
0:15:22 > 0:15:24# Black is black
0:15:24 > 0:15:26# Ooh... #
0:15:26 > 0:15:28I was the first punk in the school.
0:15:28 > 0:15:30A friend of mine, his dad was a fireman.
0:15:30 > 0:15:31With Christmas coming up,
0:15:31 > 0:15:34he was saying things were really difficult for them, they weren't
0:15:34 > 0:15:36going to be getting the presents they'd hoped for,
0:15:36 > 0:15:39that they normally got every year. It was really awkward for him,
0:15:39 > 0:15:41he didn't like to talk about it too much.
0:15:54 > 0:15:58At that time, up and down the country, were riots, strikes.
0:15:59 > 0:16:00Striking miners...
0:16:00 > 0:16:04Anybody who was striking, really, which in them days was everybody.
0:16:07 > 0:16:09They were serious times.
0:16:09 > 0:16:13Serious change in the way the British culture was viewing itself.
0:16:16 > 0:16:18# Leave me in peace
0:16:18 > 0:16:22# If he would come back to me then I can't go wrong. #
0:16:30 > 0:16:31Over the last 12 months,
0:16:31 > 0:16:35punk rock has become almost a battle cry in British society.
0:16:35 > 0:16:38For many people, it's a bigger threat to our way of life
0:16:38 > 0:16:40than Russian communism or hyperinflation.
0:16:42 > 0:16:44Before the Huddersfield show,
0:16:44 > 0:16:47we were still banned in many places round the UK.
0:16:47 > 0:16:50We'd come off the back of the Spots tour.
0:16:50 > 0:16:52Sex Pistols on tour, secretly.
0:16:52 > 0:16:56I thought it was dreadful that we had to not be ourselves,
0:16:56 > 0:16:58and go under secret monikers.
0:17:00 > 0:17:05Places like Cromer, and little towns along the way. Newport, I think.
0:17:05 > 0:17:06So, we was working our way up.
0:17:06 > 0:17:08# I was born
0:17:08 > 0:17:14# Under a wandering star... #
0:17:14 > 0:17:17There was an alleged tour that was going to happen,
0:17:17 > 0:17:20and I think all 27 gigs got cancelled.
0:17:23 > 0:17:28Every town we'd roll into, up would be the local MP or whatever.
0:17:28 > 0:17:33Imagine that, now. Where anyone would listen to a local MP!
0:17:33 > 0:17:38So, there's improvement on the domestic front.
0:17:38 > 0:17:40Can you get me a rope?
0:17:40 > 0:17:41LAUGHTER
0:17:41 > 0:17:43Get me a rope, OK?
0:17:43 > 0:17:45MUSIC: Did You No Wrong by Sex Pistols
0:17:45 > 0:17:49The bannings and the local council wars against us
0:17:49 > 0:17:52was pretty damn outrageous, really, and stupid.
0:17:52 > 0:17:55We have had punk rock in Birmingham, unfortunately.
0:17:55 > 0:17:59And now they're bringing out the freak punk rock groups.
0:17:59 > 0:18:02I've been, I know what I'm talking about. They do so much damage.
0:18:04 > 0:18:07# Hey, I did you no wrong. #
0:18:07 > 0:18:10The average adult can protest with his feet.
0:18:10 > 0:18:13The average adult can go and see a strip show or a blue film,
0:18:13 > 0:18:16but after the TV performance of the Sex Pistols,
0:18:16 > 0:18:18when foul language was used,
0:18:18 > 0:18:21the decision made when we discovered it was mere children
0:18:21 > 0:18:24that would be watching the performance.
0:18:25 > 0:18:29Well, Scotland was the most ridiculous banning of the lot,
0:18:29 > 0:18:32with the Lord Provost of Scotland declaring
0:18:32 > 0:18:36that they had enough hooligans in Scotland without importing them
0:18:36 > 0:18:37from south of the border.
0:18:39 > 0:18:42"I refuse to tell you what's under ma kilt,
0:18:42 > 0:18:47"but as a special New Year's treat, I'll tell you what's in ma sporran.
0:18:47 > 0:18:48"Ma underpants."
0:18:50 > 0:18:54I feel that this is the pay-off of a punk society.
0:18:54 > 0:18:55I feel that we have punk parents,
0:18:55 > 0:18:57we have punk politicians,
0:18:57 > 0:18:59we have punk clergymen,
0:18:59 > 0:19:01and we have punk sportsmen.
0:19:01 > 0:19:03I feel the situation is punk,
0:19:03 > 0:19:05but I feel that it's not their fault.
0:19:06 > 0:19:09Well, we're going to have a look at some of the great, great sounds
0:19:09 > 0:19:12that we've been treated to over the last year,
0:19:12 > 0:19:13and right now here's a fabulous one.
0:19:13 > 0:19:15From Rod Stewart, The First Cut Is The Deepest.
0:19:15 > 0:19:17It was number one in the summer, May and June,
0:19:17 > 0:19:19for five consecutive weeks.
0:19:19 > 0:19:24What can I tell you about being banned by the BBC?
0:19:24 > 0:19:27Along with the Rupert Murdoch empire
0:19:27 > 0:19:31proclaiming that we were the moral fault.
0:19:33 > 0:19:36You talk about Rupert Murdoch now -
0:19:36 > 0:19:39that was the beginnings of his nonsense,
0:19:39 > 0:19:43and that man and his approach to the truth
0:19:43 > 0:19:47was really damn difficult to skirt around.
0:19:47 > 0:19:49# ..tell me why tell me why
0:19:49 > 0:19:51# Why d'you have to lie? #
0:19:51 > 0:19:55We know ultimately that what we did, it would be transferred into a lie,
0:19:55 > 0:19:57and ridiculed and rubbished.
0:19:57 > 0:20:01Rupert Murdoch and his clones were making it worse and worse and worse,
0:20:01 > 0:20:05and they carried on, and nobody did nothing about them.
0:20:05 > 0:20:08Just wanted to smear us.
0:20:08 > 0:20:10It's sad that we had to go through that,
0:20:10 > 0:20:14and suffer the way we did, for what is basically an honest message.
0:20:14 > 0:20:17Truth. You can't beat the truth, Vicar.
0:20:18 > 0:20:21- The truth shall make you free.- Mm.
0:20:21 > 0:20:22- Eh?- Mm.
0:20:22 > 0:20:24Poor vicar, every time he comes in
0:20:24 > 0:20:26- he gets into trouble, don't you? - I do, yes.
0:20:26 > 0:20:27We were just travelling.
0:20:27 > 0:20:29There was nothing to do,
0:20:29 > 0:20:33we were really kind of desperate to just do gigs as the Sex Pistols.
0:20:34 > 0:20:36Barred from Little Chefs
0:20:36 > 0:20:39and Happy Eaters at each service station along the road,
0:20:39 > 0:20:42turned away from every Holiday Inn across the land,
0:20:42 > 0:20:46the four Pistols wandered the motorways of the North
0:20:46 > 0:20:47in search of a gig.
0:20:47 > 0:20:50Then, lo and behold,
0:20:50 > 0:20:53a call came in from the striking firemen of Huddersfield.
0:20:56 > 0:20:57Where is this place?
0:20:57 > 0:20:59It is called Huddersfield.
0:20:59 > 0:21:03Do you realise what this means, gentlemen?
0:21:03 > 0:21:05What does it mean?
0:21:05 > 0:21:08It means that there is intelligent life on Earth.
0:21:08 > 0:21:10The firemen were on strike for a long time,
0:21:10 > 0:21:13and I think it was put in at the last minute.
0:21:13 > 0:21:16"Let's do a benefit for the firemen and their kids."
0:21:16 > 0:21:19It just seemed like a great idea to play on Christmas Day,
0:21:19 > 0:21:21in the afternoon for the kids
0:21:21 > 0:21:25and then in the evening for the regular punters.
0:21:25 > 0:21:27Whose idea was this gig?
0:21:27 > 0:21:28Oh, it must have been mine.
0:21:28 > 0:21:33I had a vision in a dream that we should play Huddersfield for kids.
0:21:33 > 0:21:35Particularly the children of the striking firemen,
0:21:35 > 0:21:39cos they were all just really broke, and nobody giving a damn about them.
0:21:39 > 0:21:46# Well, I wish it could be Christmas every day... #
0:21:46 > 0:21:48My friend, Dean, with his dad being out,
0:21:48 > 0:21:51he rang me up and told me he was going to it,
0:21:51 > 0:21:54and I was absolutely beside myself with jealousy.
0:21:54 > 0:21:56A couple of days later he rang me again and said,
0:21:56 > 0:21:59did I want to pretend to be his brother? Did I?!
0:21:59 > 0:22:00I had to talk to my parents about it.
0:22:00 > 0:22:04They weren't very keen - it was Christmas Day.
0:22:04 > 0:22:08I had to plead and beg. I worked on my mum, and in the end it worked.
0:22:09 > 0:22:11So, what would you have been doing otherwise, at Christmas?
0:22:11 > 0:22:15Oh, I would have been buried in beaver, somewhere.
0:22:15 > 0:22:18- What would you have been doing, John?- Sod all.
0:22:18 > 0:22:20You know, travelling up and down the M1.
0:22:20 > 0:22:22You know, looking for something to do.
0:22:22 > 0:22:26# 2-4-6-8 never too late... #
0:22:26 > 0:22:30I remember it being just really grey and dark.
0:22:30 > 0:22:32There was no sun around at the time.
0:22:32 > 0:22:35Frost will be widespread tonight, and there will be thick fog,
0:22:35 > 0:22:38particularly in Northern England, all day tomorrow.
0:22:38 > 0:22:39Julien, as you well know,
0:22:39 > 0:22:42at the time, we didn't actually even have a bloody hotel
0:22:42 > 0:22:45on Christmas Day, did we?
0:22:45 > 0:22:47I remember getting to Huddersfield.
0:22:47 > 0:22:49It just seemed such a desolate place.
0:22:49 > 0:22:52When it's dark and grey, it just magnifies it even more.
0:22:52 > 0:22:55Grim. Very grim.
0:22:59 > 0:23:01# Hallelujah
0:23:01 > 0:23:03# Hallelujah hallelujah
0:23:03 > 0:23:05# Hallelujah
0:23:05 > 0:23:07# Hallelujah... #
0:23:07 > 0:23:12Cradle of the Industrial Revolution, birthplace of rugby league,
0:23:12 > 0:23:15and famous from the Cadbury's Smash ads of the time.
0:23:15 > 0:23:21# For the Lord God omnipotent reigneth... #
0:23:21 > 0:23:23Huddersfield Town in West Yorkshire
0:23:23 > 0:23:25was the first English football team
0:23:25 > 0:23:28to win the league three times in succession.
0:23:28 > 0:23:31# Hallelujah... #
0:23:31 > 0:23:33- TO ANARCHY IN THE UK: - # I am a Yorkshireman
0:23:33 > 0:23:36# I am a Yorkshireman
0:23:36 > 0:23:39# I know what I want and I know where to get it
0:23:39 > 0:23:42- # I wanna destroy... - Bradford and Leeds
0:23:42 > 0:23:46- # Cos I... - ..wanna be...
0:23:46 > 0:23:49# HTFC. #
0:23:49 > 0:23:52There might be a copyright infringement!
0:23:52 > 0:23:54Amongst its famous sons,
0:23:54 > 0:23:59Huddersfield can proudly lay claim to James Mason,
0:23:59 > 0:24:01Harold Wilson,
0:24:01 > 0:24:04and Patrick Stewart, OBE.
0:24:04 > 0:24:08# Hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah
0:24:08 > 0:24:10# Hallelujah. #
0:24:10 > 0:24:12Our place at Huddersfield was pure hell.
0:24:12 > 0:24:15If you were working class, you just felt doomed and trapped
0:24:15 > 0:24:17and disenfranchised.
0:24:17 > 0:24:19And those were all the emotions that were running through me
0:24:19 > 0:24:21in my own culture, from London.
0:24:21 > 0:24:24Having to endure an absolutely arsehole government
0:24:24 > 0:24:28in an arsehole country in an arsehole situation.
0:24:28 > 0:24:31It was grim down south, let alone grim up north.
0:24:31 > 0:24:33Just thought, "Oh, gawd," you know?
0:24:33 > 0:24:36There was a lot of warmth there when we got there, from everyone.
0:24:36 > 0:24:37The firemen were there waiting for us,
0:24:37 > 0:24:39everyone was really pleased to see us.
0:24:39 > 0:24:41Which made a change.
0:24:43 > 0:24:45It was like, "Oh, thank God," you know?
0:24:45 > 0:24:47"Someone wants us to play, at last."
0:24:47 > 0:24:49# Baby love
0:24:49 > 0:24:51# My baby love I need you... #
0:24:51 > 0:24:55We spent a lot of time in the club in the daytime.
0:24:55 > 0:24:57Everyone was in such a great mood.
0:24:57 > 0:24:59Sid was there with Nancy, so he was happy.
0:24:59 > 0:25:02John was great around the kids, as he always is.
0:25:03 > 0:25:05I didn't really know rock stars,
0:25:05 > 0:25:08but I thought they might turn up and disappear.
0:25:08 > 0:25:09But it was stunning.
0:25:09 > 0:25:12John came out with his hat on, his hat was passed around.
0:25:12 > 0:25:14This lovely sort of straw hat.
0:25:14 > 0:25:17Sid was outstanding, he came up to me and asked me a couple of questions.
0:25:17 > 0:25:19One of the things, he wanted a handkerchief -
0:25:19 > 0:25:22there were these handkerchiefs that were being dished out.
0:25:22 > 0:25:23Anarchy hankies, I've still got mine.
0:25:23 > 0:25:26I had a couple, and he said, "Can I have one of these hankies?
0:25:26 > 0:25:29"Do you know where I can get one? Cos they won't give me one."
0:25:29 > 0:25:31So I gave him a handkerchief.
0:25:31 > 0:25:33They were all talking to people,
0:25:33 > 0:25:35and really getting involved in the whole thing.
0:25:35 > 0:25:39You could tell they really loved being around the kids.
0:25:39 > 0:25:43There was a lot of food laid out for all the kids.
0:25:43 > 0:25:44There was a lot of stuff there, and flags,
0:25:44 > 0:25:48and Pistols memorabilia, and T-shits.
0:25:48 > 0:25:51Presents, because obviously they were struggling, the firemen,
0:25:51 > 0:25:53and their kids, at the time.
0:25:55 > 0:25:58No Christmas, nothing, so we put all of that on.
0:25:58 > 0:26:00Flooded the place with cake.
0:26:00 > 0:26:02Oh, cake!
0:26:02 > 0:26:06The cake was something I'll never forget. It was massive.
0:26:06 > 0:26:09John came out and cut it, and was dishing out plates to people.
0:26:09 > 0:26:11# Ooh, ooh
0:26:11 > 0:26:13# Need to hold you
0:26:13 > 0:26:15# Once again, my love
0:26:15 > 0:26:19# Feel your warm embrace, my love
0:26:19 > 0:26:23# Don't throw our love away... #
0:26:23 > 0:26:27After he'd dished out, and the kids were wandering around,
0:26:27 > 0:26:30I was standing there with a fork just eating bits off the side of the cake.
0:26:30 > 0:26:33And I turned around and there was a chap with a camera,
0:26:33 > 0:26:35filming straight at me.
0:26:35 > 0:26:36It was you!
0:26:39 > 0:26:42Who was it who wanted a skateboard for Christmas?
0:26:42 > 0:26:45Hang on, did anyone get a skateboard this Christmas?
0:26:45 > 0:26:48We will give you an album, as well, to go with the skateboard,
0:26:48 > 0:26:50cos it's all giveaway today.
0:26:50 > 0:26:51I was just buzzing.
0:26:51 > 0:26:54I had all this stuff, everything from badges to a skateboard.
0:26:54 > 0:26:57How I got a skateboard at a Sex Pistols gig I will never know,
0:26:57 > 0:26:58but I came back with a skateboard!
0:26:58 > 0:27:02# So here it is Merry Christmas
0:27:02 > 0:27:06# Everybody's having fun
0:27:06 > 0:27:10# Look to the future now
0:27:10 > 0:27:17# It's only just begun... #
0:27:17 > 0:27:19- And what would you like? - A skateboard.- A skateboard?
0:27:19 > 0:27:22That's the most popular thing of all.
0:27:24 > 0:27:32# Are you sure you got the room to spare inside?
0:27:32 > 0:27:34# Does your granny always tell you...? #
0:27:34 > 0:27:39If you deny any child the right to believe in Santa Claus,
0:27:39 > 0:27:45then you're one nasty, evil, spiteful, twisted adult.
0:27:47 > 0:27:49I don't exist!
0:27:49 > 0:27:51# ..merry Christmas
0:27:51 > 0:27:54# Everybody's having fun
0:27:54 > 0:27:57# Look to the future now
0:27:57 > 0:28:00# It's only just... #
0:28:00 > 0:28:02The ultimate Christmas song is Slade.
0:28:02 > 0:28:03Every year it's the same old songs,
0:28:03 > 0:28:06so you've got to listen to them all again every year, you know?
0:28:06 > 0:28:09I'm glad we didn't do one.
0:28:09 > 0:28:13MUSIC: Happy Xmas (War Is Over) by John Lennon and Yoko Ono
0:28:23 > 0:28:26I don't even know how it fucking goes. Fucking horrible.
0:28:26 > 0:28:29I've been asked, from the day I joined the Pistols onwards,
0:28:29 > 0:28:31to write a Christmas song.
0:28:31 > 0:28:34And every year somebody comes up with, like,
0:28:34 > 0:28:37"I've got a good idea, why don't you?"
0:28:37 > 0:28:38Never.
0:28:38 > 0:28:41MUSIC: Submission by Sex Pistols
0:28:43 > 0:28:46We started to get fired up, and we were down the front, dancing around.
0:28:46 > 0:28:47There was a big build-up.
0:28:47 > 0:28:49You could sense it was getting towards the time
0:28:49 > 0:28:51the band was going to play.
0:28:51 > 0:28:54There we were, the alleged most toughest band
0:28:54 > 0:28:58in the world at that point, and we'd have to play to seven-year-olds.
0:29:00 > 0:29:02There's an awful lot you have to leave at the door.
0:29:04 > 0:29:08OK, gang, this party is given to you absolutely free,
0:29:08 > 0:29:10and at the expense of the Sex Pistols,
0:29:10 > 0:29:13so let's have a big cheer for the Sex Pistols, come on, let's hear it.
0:29:13 > 0:29:15Cos they are giving you your Christmas party.
0:29:15 > 0:29:17CHILDREN CHEER
0:29:17 > 0:29:21Those dirty, horrible people you keep hearing about
0:29:21 > 0:29:25would like to do a couple of their songs.
0:29:25 > 0:29:27One, two, three, four...
0:29:27 > 0:29:30MUSIC: God Save The Queen by Sex Pistols
0:29:44 > 0:29:47# God save the Queen
0:29:48 > 0:29:51# The fascist regime
0:29:51 > 0:29:54# They made you a moron
0:29:54 > 0:29:58# Potential H-bomb
0:29:58 > 0:30:01# God save the Queen
0:30:01 > 0:30:03# She ain't no human being
0:30:04 > 0:30:07# There is no future
0:30:07 > 0:30:11# In England's dreaming
0:30:11 > 0:30:14# Don't be told what you want
0:30:14 > 0:30:17# Don't be told what you need
0:30:17 > 0:30:20# There's no future, no future
0:30:20 > 0:30:25# No future for you... #
0:30:25 > 0:30:27It's so weird playing to all these young kids,
0:30:27 > 0:30:30with their scarves and flags waving about.
0:30:30 > 0:30:32It was such a great feeling.
0:30:32 > 0:30:34When we started the gig, I thought, "This is a bit risky.
0:30:34 > 0:30:37"How on earth am I going to be jumping up and down
0:30:37 > 0:30:40"screaming anarchy, here, with any sense of realism?"
0:30:40 > 0:30:44Well, kids totally knock you into place with that.
0:30:46 > 0:30:48You could see it on their faces,
0:30:48 > 0:30:51they just thought this was the best fun they'd ever had.
0:30:51 > 0:30:54And there you go, there's our audience going, "Well done, John.
0:30:54 > 0:30:56"You're one of us. A big stupid kid."
0:30:58 > 0:31:00I mean, there were no parents going,
0:31:00 > 0:31:04"Oh, I can't have my children seeing this beastly thing."
0:31:04 > 0:31:05There was none of that at all,
0:31:05 > 0:31:08it was like, "Thank God somebody cares about us."
0:31:08 > 0:31:11All through the whole day you could hear the parents saying,
0:31:11 > 0:31:14"What a wonderful idea it is," and, "Well, we never really liked
0:31:14 > 0:31:16"this punk rock thing, but what these people are doing for us
0:31:16 > 0:31:18"is fantastic." And how it changed their view,
0:31:18 > 0:31:20what they read about, what they heard about,
0:31:20 > 0:31:23was these dreadful people who were going to wreck the country
0:31:23 > 0:31:27and destroy our children, but they were really impressed.
0:31:27 > 0:31:30If you're playing front of kids, you're not going to be out of order.
0:31:30 > 0:31:33You're not going to start kicking 'em in the head, are you?
0:31:33 > 0:31:35And gobbing at 'em.
0:31:37 > 0:31:42# God save the Queen... #
0:31:42 > 0:31:46There's some geezer on stage with a big green thing on his head.
0:31:46 > 0:31:49That's John.
0:31:49 > 0:31:50Oh.
0:31:50 > 0:31:56# No future, no future
0:31:56 > 0:32:01# No future for you
0:32:03 > 0:32:09# No future, no future
0:32:09 > 0:32:15# No future for me
0:32:15 > 0:32:21# No future, no future for you. #
0:32:21 > 0:32:23CHILDREN CHEER
0:32:23 > 0:32:26Turn these fucking lights down a bit.
0:32:27 > 0:32:30Sid found this such a challenge.
0:32:30 > 0:32:33He really had to have a serious talking to beforehand.
0:32:33 > 0:32:37He wanted to be the hardcore, tough rocker bloke,
0:32:37 > 0:32:38and it's kind of like,
0:32:38 > 0:32:43"No, that ain't the right way to get the message across, Sidney."
0:32:44 > 0:32:48That's the problem with music in the past, people posturing.
0:32:48 > 0:32:50OK, ready to rock.
0:32:50 > 0:32:53A child will know when you're faking it,
0:32:53 > 0:32:56so you can't go on and be your worst Johnny Rotten.
0:32:56 > 0:32:59You're actually going to have to be your best Johnny Rotten.
0:32:59 > 0:33:02# They're staring all day
0:33:02 > 0:33:05# I had no reason to be here at all
0:33:05 > 0:33:09# But now I gotta reason it's no real reason
0:33:09 > 0:33:13# And I'm waiting at the Berlin Wall
0:33:13 > 0:33:16# I'm waiting... #
0:33:18 > 0:33:20- What's your name?- Kelly!
0:33:20 > 0:33:23John was passing the mic around to all the kids,
0:33:23 > 0:33:26and all the kids were shouting their names out, which was lovely.
0:33:26 > 0:33:29# Claustrophobia there's too much paranoia
0:33:29 > 0:33:32# There's too many closets so when will we fall
0:33:32 > 0:33:34# And now I gotta reason
0:33:34 > 0:33:36# It's no real reason to be waiting... #
0:33:36 > 0:33:40It is quite great how kids pick up the words very, very quickly,
0:33:40 > 0:33:43and then getting them to sing the song with me.
0:33:43 > 0:33:47# Now I got a reason Now I got a reason... #
0:33:47 > 0:33:51I think young kids got the Pistols more than the grown-ups, really...
0:33:55 > 0:34:00..and saw the comedy aspect of it all, vaudeville, a theatre show.
0:34:00 > 0:34:02It's just looked like pantomime.
0:34:04 > 0:34:07It was, it was Carry On Sex Pistols.
0:34:07 > 0:34:09With Steve as Sid James or something.
0:34:09 > 0:34:10HE GROWLS
0:34:10 > 0:34:12Oh, there you are.
0:34:12 > 0:34:14HE ROARS
0:34:15 > 0:34:18- And who are you, John? - I don't know.- Charles Hawtrey?
0:34:18 > 0:34:20Something really awkward, right?
0:34:20 > 0:34:23I thought you'd like to know, there's another strike on.
0:34:23 > 0:34:25- Who is it this time?- The eunuchs.
0:34:25 > 0:34:29Those films, when I was very young, they were very important to me.
0:34:29 > 0:34:30They were hilarious,
0:34:30 > 0:34:34and everybody grew up with that sense of wit and humour.
0:34:36 > 0:34:38Oh! Ooh!
0:34:38 > 0:34:42We had all bases covered, as far as the pantomime thing was concerned.
0:34:42 > 0:34:46We had Sid, the villain, John, the Dickensian character out front,
0:34:46 > 0:34:48and Steve with the comedy.
0:34:48 > 0:34:51And me sitting at the back holding it all together.
0:34:51 > 0:34:52The straight man, if you like.
0:34:52 > 0:34:56Malcolm was usually the Scrooge character in the pantomime,
0:34:56 > 0:34:58but even he changed for Christmas day.
0:34:58 > 0:35:02For me, the Sex Pistols is absolutely about the humour.
0:35:02 > 0:35:07HE WHISTLES
0:35:07 > 0:35:10I open up in pantomime in East Ham tomorrow, and that's a song
0:35:10 > 0:35:14I shall be ruining twice daily, so I hope you'll come along and see me.
0:35:14 > 0:35:17Terry Duggan is getting dressed for the job.
0:35:20 > 0:35:24He's one of the most experienced pantomime cats in the business.
0:35:24 > 0:35:28This year, Terry shall claw up his 2,000th appearance as Cat,
0:35:28 > 0:35:31with the latest in a long and distinguished line
0:35:31 > 0:35:33of Dick Whittingtons.
0:35:33 > 0:35:35- Meow!- Hello, Puss. Where did you spring from?
0:35:35 > 0:35:39Well, I think that the secret is knowing that you are playing a cat,
0:35:39 > 0:35:42and doing things that a cat would do...
0:35:43 > 0:35:47When you're playing with a man, you can be more boisterous, like,
0:35:47 > 0:35:50I can jump up onto him, whereas with a girl, you can't.
0:35:50 > 0:35:52You've got to be careful where you put your paws.
0:35:52 > 0:35:55So, off he goes to the Wimbledon Theatre.
0:35:55 > 0:35:57# What's new, pussycat?
0:35:57 > 0:35:59# Whoa-whoa-whoa-oh
0:35:59 > 0:36:01# What's new, pussycat?
0:36:01 > 0:36:06# Whoa-whoa-whoa-whoa-oh
0:36:06 > 0:36:09# Pussycat, Pussycat
0:36:09 > 0:36:10# I've got flowers
0:36:10 > 0:36:12# And lots of hours... #
0:36:12 > 0:36:15There's always pantomime on every Christmas,
0:36:15 > 0:36:19all the shows on TV was all pantomime based.
0:36:19 > 0:36:22Comedy, Eric and Ernie and all that stuff,
0:36:22 > 0:36:23traditional British Christmas.
0:36:23 > 0:36:25# Tradition, tradition
0:36:25 > 0:36:27# The pantomime tradition
0:36:27 > 0:36:30# To be believed it really must be seen... #
0:36:30 > 0:36:32- ALL:- We're off to see the Wizard.
0:36:32 > 0:36:34Hello, Mother!
0:36:34 > 0:36:35Clear off.
0:36:35 > 0:36:40I wonder if you lot could give us a contribution to the IMF.
0:36:40 > 0:36:41- ALL:- The IMF?
0:36:41 > 0:36:46Christmas TV, let it babble on infinitely.
0:36:46 > 0:36:48Sometimes it can be fun.
0:36:55 > 0:36:57LAUGHTER
0:36:57 > 0:37:01Listen, Christmas is fine. It's always been boring.
0:37:01 > 0:37:03You know that.
0:37:03 > 0:37:05If you rely on the TV for entertainment
0:37:05 > 0:37:08you're a fool to yourself and everybody else.
0:37:08 > 0:37:11# I got no reason and it's all too much
0:37:11 > 0:37:13# You'll always find me
0:37:14 > 0:37:18# Out to lunch... #
0:37:19 > 0:37:22We were having a great time, as well, along with the kids.
0:37:22 > 0:37:24And John smashed his head right into the cake,
0:37:24 > 0:37:26and all the kids were just throwing cake.
0:37:26 > 0:37:29# We're so pretty
0:37:29 > 0:37:31# Oh, so pretty
0:37:32 > 0:37:34# Vacant
0:37:34 > 0:37:36# We're so pretty
0:37:36 > 0:37:37# Oh, so pretty... #
0:37:37 > 0:37:42Cake started flying, and then it just went insane, mental, brilliant.
0:37:42 > 0:37:44Absolute slapstick.
0:37:44 > 0:37:46Just added to the flavour
0:37:46 > 0:37:50of a pretty near-terrifying Sex Pistols song.
0:37:50 > 0:37:52# And we don't care... #
0:37:52 > 0:37:54Showed the lighter side of it.
0:37:56 > 0:37:59John's got pie all over him.
0:37:59 > 0:38:01He's, like, happier than a pig in shit.
0:38:01 > 0:38:03# We're so pretty
0:38:03 > 0:38:05# Oh, so pretty
0:38:08 > 0:38:10# We're so pretty
0:38:10 > 0:38:14# Oh, so pretty
0:38:14 > 0:38:17# Now
0:38:17 > 0:38:21# And we don't care... #
0:38:21 > 0:38:25Kids can be such a bounce back to reality.
0:38:25 > 0:38:29Don't forget the fun, cos it all got a little bit too serious.
0:38:29 > 0:38:36# We don't care. #
0:38:36 > 0:38:39Astonishing - I'll never forget, they played Bodies,
0:38:39 > 0:38:40which was quite a surprise.
0:38:40 > 0:38:42To me - knowing the song, was a little bit shocked
0:38:42 > 0:38:44that they were playing that in front of a load if kids.
0:38:44 > 0:38:45But - fine, I loved it.
0:38:45 > 0:38:48MUSIC: Bodies by Sex Pistols
0:38:50 > 0:38:52# She was a girl from Birmingham
0:38:52 > 0:38:55# She just had an abortion
0:38:55 > 0:38:58# She was a case of insanity
0:38:58 > 0:39:00# Her name was Pauline
0:39:00 > 0:39:01# She lived in a tree
0:39:01 > 0:39:05# She was a no-one who killed her baby
0:39:05 > 0:39:07# She sent her letters from the country
0:39:07 > 0:39:10# She was an animal
0:39:10 > 0:39:13# She was a bloody disgrace
0:39:13 > 0:39:18# Body, I'm not an animal
0:39:20 > 0:39:25# Mummy, I'm not an animal
0:39:25 > 0:39:27# Animal... #
0:39:27 > 0:39:32Hold on... Shush, hold it. Hold it.
0:39:32 > 0:39:33# I'm not a body
0:39:33 > 0:39:36# I'm not an animal, an animal... #
0:39:36 > 0:39:39He's not saying "fucking", that's good.
0:39:39 > 0:39:40What do you mean?
0:39:40 > 0:39:42Well, you know on the "fuck this, fuck that" bit,
0:39:42 > 0:39:45I don't think he was doing that bit, for the kids.
0:39:45 > 0:39:47That was good, right?
0:39:47 > 0:39:49# I'm not an animal... #
0:39:49 > 0:39:52Wonderful, brilliant vibe, atmosphere. Loved it.
0:39:52 > 0:39:55And it knocked the stuffing out of Sid, I've got to say,
0:39:55 > 0:39:57too, for his - trying to be tough, you know?
0:39:57 > 0:40:00How can you be tough with a Christmas cake in your face?
0:40:03 > 0:40:07That's when he realised that he's a kid, after all.
0:40:07 > 0:40:09CHILDREN: # I'm not an animal!
0:40:09 > 0:40:14# I'm not an animal I ain't an animal... #
0:40:14 > 0:40:17# I'm not an animal! #
0:40:17 > 0:40:21What better present? I wish I was a kid in the audience watching that.
0:40:21 > 0:40:25# I'm not an animal I ain't an animal... #
0:40:37 > 0:40:40We've finally achieved our Christmas.
0:40:40 > 0:40:44It was the best cake fight I've ever been in.
0:40:44 > 0:40:45Utterly brilliant.
0:40:45 > 0:40:49I've still yet to find out who I send my dry-cleaning bill to!
0:40:51 > 0:40:55It is one of the things in my life I will never forget. It was wonderful.
0:40:55 > 0:40:56It was the talk of the school.
0:40:56 > 0:40:59I was the only one there from the school that had done it.
0:40:59 > 0:41:01Not long after that, did the classic thing, formed a band.
0:41:01 > 0:41:05And I worked in sales, I joined the police, I did that for a long time.
0:41:05 > 0:41:07But always happy to talk about seeing the Pistols.
0:41:14 > 0:41:16# Bring out the bottle
0:41:16 > 0:41:19# Bring on the cheer
0:41:19 > 0:41:24# Mr Bartender I'll have another beer
0:41:24 > 0:41:29# Tomorrow I'll be hurting when that ulcer pain begins
0:41:29 > 0:41:31# The wheels fell off the wagon
0:41:31 > 0:41:35# And I'm getting wild again. #
0:41:35 > 0:41:39I remember, like, watching the adults get completely paralytic,
0:41:39 > 0:41:41which was fun for me,
0:41:41 > 0:41:45cos that meant I could put the records on the old Dansette.
0:41:46 > 0:41:50"No-one else is capable of putting the records on? I'll take over."
0:41:50 > 0:41:52And I'm in my own universe,
0:41:52 > 0:41:56I'm looking at the labels, like, "Oh! It's the Kinks! Ha-ha!"
0:41:56 > 0:41:59MUSIC: You Really Got Me by The Kinks
0:41:59 > 0:42:00You Really Got Me.
0:42:01 > 0:42:05The concert, tonight, from The Kinks, ladies and gentlemen.
0:42:05 > 0:42:08And I've had such a love of music ever since.
0:42:08 > 0:42:09# Oh, oh, oh! #
0:42:09 > 0:42:11Christmas meant, "Yippee!"
0:42:11 > 0:42:15They'd give us a Babycham and maybe a Warninks Advocaat,
0:42:15 > 0:42:19mixed with lemonade and called a snowball.
0:42:19 > 0:42:22Girly drinks, but when you're five years old,
0:42:22 > 0:42:25ooh, that knocks your socks, you know?
0:42:25 > 0:42:28And then later, when the party's over,
0:42:28 > 0:42:31and you can creep back in and talk to you mum and dad,
0:42:31 > 0:42:33and all their friends have left,
0:42:33 > 0:42:35you can have a little tipple of Guinness.
0:42:35 > 0:42:39Ahh! That's Christmas.
0:42:39 > 0:42:42I wouldn't be drinking today if it wasn't for my parents!
0:42:44 > 0:42:48Kids need to be introduced slowly, subtly,
0:42:48 > 0:42:51but definitely into the adult world.
0:42:51 > 0:42:54Don't deny that these things go on, and don't say,
0:42:54 > 0:42:57"That's not for you," because when you do that to a young kid,
0:42:57 > 0:43:00that young kid is going to make damn well sure it's for him...
0:43:00 > 0:43:02her, or them.
0:43:23 > 0:43:27As darkness fell that Christmas day, young punks and Luddites
0:43:27 > 0:43:30from Wakefield, Bradford and Leeds
0:43:30 > 0:43:33began the long march across the moors of West Yorkshire.
0:43:33 > 0:43:35Get off my land!
0:43:35 > 0:43:37That's where you go.
0:43:37 > 0:43:39And you, you get on that road, there!
0:43:39 > 0:43:41- I'm going here... - Over my dead body, Madame.
0:43:41 > 0:43:43There's a road there.
0:43:43 > 0:43:46- Don't touch me. - Come on, get up that road!
0:43:46 > 0:43:51Down through the dark, Satanic mills of Horbury and Halifax,
0:43:51 > 0:43:56to the sanctuary of Ivanhoe's, in Huddersfield itself.
0:43:56 > 0:44:01Just another normal, boring nothing day, like every other Christmas Day.
0:44:01 > 0:44:04Then the Queen's speech came on, and we just thought,
0:44:04 > 0:44:05"Oh, no, not this again."
0:44:05 > 0:44:08Her message was no longer relevant.
0:44:08 > 0:44:11It was the Sex Pistols' message that was more important.
0:44:13 > 0:44:16So, we just set off walking to Huddersfield to see t'Sex Pistols.
0:44:16 > 0:44:19I remember it being 16 mile, but it's only nine mile now,
0:44:19 > 0:44:21but it took us three hours.
0:44:21 > 0:44:25- No trains.- Couldn't afford a taxi. - Couldn't afford a taxi.
0:44:25 > 0:44:28Nobody had any cars - we were too young.
0:44:28 > 0:44:33He was only 15, I was just turned 17, so walking was the only option.
0:44:33 > 0:44:36We broke so many laws that day,
0:44:36 > 0:44:39because it was illegal to play on Christmas.
0:44:39 > 0:44:43It was illegal to buy a beer. Can you imagine that?
0:44:43 > 0:44:47As we got to the gig, there was about five or six punks, maybe ten,
0:44:47 > 0:44:50and it were them that told us the gig had sold out.
0:44:50 > 0:44:53So we just sat on the floor, cos we were tired from walking,
0:44:53 > 0:44:56and then somebody brought some sandwiches out that were left
0:44:56 > 0:44:58over from the party in the afternoon.
0:44:58 > 0:45:00Malcolm got us in the gig, he said the Pistols wouldn't play
0:45:00 > 0:45:04unless you let these half a dozen punks in the gig.
0:45:04 > 0:45:05Do you want a drink?
0:45:05 > 0:45:08- Got ya.- We're all fucking drunk, just like you should be.
0:45:08 > 0:45:10- Let's get- BLEEP- up here.
0:45:10 > 0:45:11CROWD CHEERS
0:45:11 > 0:45:14Are we going to have a good time, or what?
0:45:14 > 0:45:15Yes!
0:45:15 > 0:45:19How else can you avoid Christmas, but throw a bottle of fucking booze?
0:45:19 > 0:45:21Can you think of a better way to spend Christmas?
0:45:21 > 0:45:23ALL: No!
0:45:23 > 0:45:26MUSIC: I Wanna Be Me by Sex Pistols
0:45:42 > 0:45:44# Turn the page and it's
0:45:44 > 0:45:45# The scoop of the century
0:45:45 > 0:45:48# Don't wanna be L7 I had enough of this
0:45:48 > 0:45:52# This is brainwash and this is a clue
0:45:52 > 0:45:54# To the stars who fooled you
0:45:54 > 0:45:58# Tell me why you can't explain
0:45:58 > 0:46:00# You're only looking for vinyl
0:46:00 > 0:46:03# Yeah
0:46:03 > 0:46:05# Didn't they fool you?
0:46:05 > 0:46:08# They wanna be you
0:46:10 > 0:46:13# Gimme World War III we can live again
0:46:13 > 0:46:16# You didn't fool me but I fooled you
0:46:16 > 0:46:18# You wanna be me, yeah
0:46:18 > 0:46:20# You wanna be me
0:46:20 > 0:46:23# You wanna be someone, yeah ruin someone
0:46:23 > 0:46:28# Yeah, didn't I fool you?
0:46:28 > 0:46:32# I ruined you, yeah
0:46:32 > 0:46:36# Didn't I fool you I sussed you out... #
0:46:44 > 0:46:46John was still in a good mood.
0:46:46 > 0:46:49Sid's focused.
0:46:49 > 0:46:50I think I'm Johnny Thunders.
0:46:54 > 0:46:55It's good footage, this.
0:46:55 > 0:46:58MUSIC: New York by Sex Pistols
0:46:58 > 0:47:01# An imitation from New York
0:47:01 > 0:47:03# You're made in Japan
0:47:03 > 0:47:04# From cheese and chalk
0:47:04 > 0:47:07# You're hippy tarts hero cos you put on a bad show
0:47:07 > 0:47:11# Oh, don't it show
0:47:11 > 0:47:17# Still out on those pills
0:47:19 > 0:47:21# Do you remember?
0:47:27 > 0:47:30# You think it's swell playing Max's Kansas
0:47:30 > 0:47:33# Looking bored and acting flash... #
0:47:33 > 0:47:37When, as the Pistols, we first went up north,
0:47:37 > 0:47:39it was unbelievable, the hatred
0:47:39 > 0:47:44for, like, "Oh, you Southern softies, you cockney bastards,"
0:47:44 > 0:47:48and it'd be just the four of us dealing with, you know, up to 300,
0:47:48 > 0:47:54like, full-on firms turning up to gigs wanting to smash our heads in.
0:47:54 > 0:47:57But, you know, we piled through that.
0:47:57 > 0:47:59# Four years on you still look the same
0:47:59 > 0:48:01# I think about time
0:48:01 > 0:48:03# You changed your brain
0:48:03 > 0:48:05# You're just a pile of shit
0:48:05 > 0:48:07# You're coming to this
0:48:07 > 0:48:10# Ya poor little faggot
0:48:10 > 0:48:13# Sealed with a kiss... #
0:48:13 > 0:48:15A lot of good things came out of the Pistols for me.
0:48:15 > 0:48:17I was going to football, and the only time
0:48:17 > 0:48:19I ever met anybody from another city
0:48:19 > 0:48:22it was just a big punch-up, you know?
0:48:22 > 0:48:24And I'd rather get on with people.
0:48:24 > 0:48:26What I loved about the old punk scene
0:48:26 > 0:48:29was it didn't matter where you'd come from.
0:48:32 > 0:48:37Punks started to merge together from different parts of the country,
0:48:37 > 0:48:38and they became "us",
0:48:38 > 0:48:41not "us and them" any more, just "us".
0:48:41 > 0:48:44Places like Huddersfield, there's an absolute proof of that.
0:48:44 > 0:48:47# Pills
0:48:47 > 0:48:48# Under my pillow... #
0:48:52 > 0:48:56I hitchhiked all over t'country watching loads of other bands,
0:48:56 > 0:49:00and whatever city I landed in, as soon as you met punks,
0:49:00 > 0:49:02they'd put you up for t'weekend.
0:49:02 > 0:49:04It just felt like there was summat special.
0:49:04 > 0:49:07The people were coming together with some kind of union going on,
0:49:07 > 0:49:09things were changing.
0:49:09 > 0:49:11We all realised we were all going through the same nonsense here.
0:49:11 > 0:49:16Why are we fighting each other? We find out who the real enemy is.
0:49:16 > 0:49:19Turned our weapons onto those who need to be turned onto.
0:49:19 > 0:49:21MUSIC: Belsen Was A Gas by Sex Pistols
0:49:21 > 0:49:23# Sergeant majors on the march
0:49:23 > 0:49:27# Wash the bodies in the starch
0:49:27 > 0:49:30# See them all die one by one
0:49:30 > 0:49:33# Guess it's dead, guess it's glad
0:49:33 > 0:49:38# So bad... #
0:49:39 > 0:49:41I think the Pistols broke a lot of taboos.
0:49:41 > 0:49:45Gender is another one that they burnt down, and racial issues.
0:49:45 > 0:49:47It was about being inclusive, not exclusive.
0:49:47 > 0:49:50It didn't matter what your sexual orientation was,
0:49:50 > 0:49:53what nationality you are, where you lived or anything.
0:49:53 > 0:49:56They were the first band that made that happen.
0:49:56 > 0:50:00All we had in mind was to view each other as equals.
0:50:00 > 0:50:04Creativity and equalness for everyone and everything.
0:50:04 > 0:50:06Bring Babylon down.
0:50:06 > 0:50:09One, two, three, four!
0:50:09 > 0:50:13MUSIC: EMI by Sex Pistols
0:50:27 > 0:50:30# There's unlimited supply
0:50:30 > 0:50:33# And there is no reason why
0:50:33 > 0:50:37# I tell you it was all a frame
0:50:37 > 0:50:40# They only did it cos of fame
0:50:40 > 0:50:41# Who?
0:50:41 > 0:50:44# EMI
0:50:44 > 0:50:46# EMI
0:50:46 > 0:50:49# EMI
0:50:53 > 0:50:57# Too many people had the suss... #
0:50:57 > 0:50:58We spoke to Lydon afterwards,
0:50:58 > 0:51:01and he seemed really relaxed and friendly and that.
0:51:01 > 0:51:03We spoke to him for about half an hour, I think
0:51:03 > 0:51:07he came up to Chris and he tried to tap a fag off you, didn't he?
0:51:07 > 0:51:09# Unlimited edition
0:51:09 > 0:51:12# With an unlimited supply... #
0:51:13 > 0:51:16For him to just walk up and start talking to us,
0:51:16 > 0:51:18and talking to you like you were his best mate -
0:51:18 > 0:51:20there was there was no, "I'm in a band,
0:51:20 > 0:51:22"you're a little pleb who's come to see us."
0:51:22 > 0:51:25There was like a respect for common bond, type thing.
0:51:25 > 0:51:28He said to us, "If we play any gigs in London, come along.
0:51:28 > 0:51:29"We'll try and get you in," and that.
0:51:29 > 0:51:32That struck a massive chord with me, personally.
0:51:34 > 0:51:35Who's the star?
0:51:35 > 0:51:37Me or you?
0:51:41 > 0:51:43How many Maggie Thatchers are there?
0:51:43 > 0:51:46Anarchy!
0:51:47 > 0:51:51MUSIC: No Feelings by Sex Pistols
0:51:56 > 0:51:57# I've seen you in the mirror
0:51:57 > 0:51:59# When the story began
0:51:59 > 0:52:00# And I fell in love with you
0:52:00 > 0:52:01# I love your mortal sin... #
0:52:01 > 0:52:03I know I don't remember a lot,
0:52:03 > 0:52:06but I was totally aware we were doing a show for the firemen
0:52:06 > 0:52:09who'd been on strike, and they were skint.
0:52:09 > 0:52:11And I was happy I was doing it,
0:52:11 > 0:52:15and it got me out of my own head for a few hours.
0:52:15 > 0:52:19Saying that, I was still...miserable.
0:52:19 > 0:52:22To be honest with you, I was kind of depressed most of the time,
0:52:22 > 0:52:25and just used to drown it with booze.
0:52:26 > 0:52:27I was just trying to escape.
0:52:27 > 0:52:29I don't know where I was trying to escape to,
0:52:29 > 0:52:32but I really didn't like being in me own skin.
0:52:32 > 0:52:35# No feelings
0:52:35 > 0:52:39# No feelings
0:52:39 > 0:52:41# No feelings
0:52:41 > 0:52:44# For anybody else
0:52:47 > 0:52:48# No feelings... #
0:52:48 > 0:52:50It doesn't matter what band you're in,
0:52:50 > 0:52:53or what you've going on the outside,
0:52:53 > 0:52:57if you're a lonely soul inside and you try to cover it with booze
0:52:57 > 0:53:01and sex and drugs, that's not a solution.
0:53:01 > 0:53:03# OK?
0:53:03 > 0:53:07# Show me the way
0:53:07 > 0:53:10# No feelings
0:53:10 > 0:53:13# No feelings
0:53:13 > 0:53:16# No feelings
0:53:16 > 0:53:18# For anybody else
0:53:21 > 0:53:25# Except for myself
0:53:25 > 0:53:28# No feelings... #
0:53:28 > 0:53:31It might have looked like I was having a good time,
0:53:31 > 0:53:33people think you're having the best time of your life,
0:53:33 > 0:53:35you're in a big band and it's all going on,
0:53:35 > 0:53:39but I'm sure when I used to watch Top Of The Pops
0:53:39 > 0:53:44and watch Sweet performing a song, I bet one of them was miserable too.
0:53:44 > 0:53:47- You're not like that now, though. - No, I'm not.
0:53:47 > 0:53:50I'm happy as a clam right now, that's why I whistle so good.
0:53:50 > 0:53:54I get glimpses of what it was like back then, and how unhappy I was
0:53:54 > 0:53:59as a 21, 22-year-old guy who had no tools on how to live,
0:53:59 > 0:54:04no education - from my parents or at school.
0:54:04 > 0:54:07# Problem
0:54:07 > 0:54:11# Problem - the problem is you
0:54:11 > 0:54:14# What you gonna do
0:54:14 > 0:54:17# Problem - the problem is you... #
0:54:18 > 0:54:22Huddersfield is the very last gig the Sex Pistols played in England.
0:54:22 > 0:54:25Then we went off to America and murdered each other.
0:54:26 > 0:54:28# Bet you thought you had it all worked out
0:54:28 > 0:54:31# Bet you thought you knew what I was about
0:54:31 > 0:54:34# Bet you thought you'd solved all your problems
0:54:34 > 0:54:38# But you are the problem
0:54:38 > 0:54:41# Problem... #
0:54:41 > 0:54:46As a band, that's the closest we've probably ever been.
0:54:46 > 0:54:48You'd never think we were going to split up, you know,
0:54:48 > 0:54:50a month later at the end of the US tour,
0:54:50 > 0:54:53if you saw us that day in Huddersfield.
0:54:53 > 0:54:56I didn't think it was going to be over in three weeks.
0:54:56 > 0:54:58# Problem
0:54:58 > 0:54:59# Problem
0:54:59 > 0:55:01# Problem
0:55:01 > 0:55:03# Problem
0:55:03 > 0:55:04# Problem
0:55:04 > 0:55:06# Problem
0:55:06 > 0:55:08# Problem. #
0:55:09 > 0:55:13The tensions was there in us, because we couldn't get the gigs,
0:55:13 > 0:55:15and then Malcolm was a false prophet,
0:55:15 > 0:55:17he was all mouth and no trousers.
0:55:17 > 0:55:20He never gave us anything to get to grips with as a group.
0:55:20 > 0:55:23So we could never really be solid with each other.
0:55:23 > 0:55:25And because of that, we began to hate each other.
0:55:25 > 0:55:28Cos there was nothing else to do but hate each other.
0:55:28 > 0:55:32I think we were resigned to it not lasting much longer,
0:55:32 > 0:55:35which is why everyone was very chilled out about it all,
0:55:35 > 0:55:38and we knew we were going to split up, in a funny sort of way, I think.
0:55:38 > 0:55:41And kind of knew this might be our last show.
0:55:41 > 0:55:45Save us going off and coming back on,
0:55:45 > 0:55:48we'll do another one, right?
0:55:48 > 0:55:51But after this one, it's all over.
0:55:52 > 0:55:56MUSIC: Anarchy In The UK by Sex Pistols
0:56:06 > 0:56:10# I am an anti-Christ
0:56:10 > 0:56:13# I am an anarchist
0:56:13 > 0:56:15# I know what I want
0:56:15 > 0:56:17# And I know how to get it
0:56:17 > 0:56:20# I wanna destroy the passer-by
0:56:20 > 0:56:26# Cos I wanna be
0:56:26 > 0:56:29# Anarchy
0:56:33 > 0:56:37# Anarchy for the UK
0:56:37 > 0:56:41# It's coming sometime and maybe
0:56:41 > 0:56:44# I give a wrong time stop a traffic line
0:56:44 > 0:56:48# Your future dream is a shopping scheme
0:56:48 > 0:56:54# Cos I wanna be
0:56:54 > 0:56:58# Anarchy
0:56:59 > 0:57:01# In the city... #
0:57:01 > 0:57:04Actually, I think the Sex Pistols finished in Huddersfield.
0:57:04 > 0:57:06America was, like, a delusion.
0:57:06 > 0:57:09Lost the vibe, couldn't get that vibe back.
0:57:09 > 0:57:13It's kind of, like, "We've had enough of this, and it's all over."
0:57:13 > 0:57:15And then, what a great way to go out, you know?
0:57:20 > 0:57:24# Is this the MPLA
0:57:24 > 0:57:27# Or is this the UDA
0:57:27 > 0:57:31# Or is this the IRA
0:57:31 > 0:57:34# I thought it was the UK
0:57:34 > 0:57:40# Or just another
0:57:40 > 0:57:44# Country
0:57:44 > 0:57:49# Another council tenancy
0:57:49 > 0:57:55# I wanna be
0:57:55 > 0:57:59# Anarchy
0:58:02 > 0:58:08# And I wanna be
0:58:08 > 0:58:12# Anarchist
0:58:12 > 0:58:15# An anarchist
0:58:15 > 0:58:18# Destroy! #
0:58:25 > 0:58:28To this day, the people of Huddersfield mean a real lot to me.
0:58:28 > 0:58:31The quiet moment when it had all ended, later,
0:58:31 > 0:58:33there were a tear in my eye.
0:58:33 > 0:58:36In all of the Sex Pistols, I've got to say, that gig left me
0:58:36 > 0:58:39feeling like I'd actually ACHIEVED something.
0:58:39 > 0:58:42I don't think there'd be a Christmas as good as that one.
0:58:42 > 0:58:44Unless Sex Pistols are going to play this Christmas.
0:58:46 > 0:58:49It was actually probably the best Christmas I had,
0:58:49 > 0:58:51cos I was actually doing something.
0:58:51 > 0:58:53For me, I'm glad that this is now being shown.
0:58:53 > 0:58:56There's been an awful long time it's been buried, you know,
0:58:56 > 0:58:58in sealed vaults.
0:58:58 > 0:59:00But it's kind of appropriate, now,
0:59:00 > 0:59:04you gather what it really was we were truly about way back then.
0:59:04 > 0:59:08You know, it was always from the heart.
0:59:08 > 0:59:11And Huddersfield shows that, I think, really well.
0:59:11 > 0:59:13'Appy Christmas, everyone.
0:59:14 > 0:59:17I just gotta say, "Yo-ho-ho," everyone, and have a great time.
0:59:17 > 0:59:22Oh, just think of Huddersfield and that's Christmas enough.
0:59:23 > 0:59:29# Body, I'm not an animal
0:59:29 > 0:59:32# An animal
0:59:32 > 0:59:36# I'm not an animal
0:59:36 > 0:59:38# I'm not a body
0:59:38 > 0:59:42# I'm not an animal, an animal
0:59:42 > 0:59:44# I'm not an animal I ain't no animal
0:59:44 > 0:59:46# I'm not an animal
0:59:46 > 0:59:50# Mummy. #