In Sweden the sex pistols met the Abba and …

In July 1977, i Sex Pistols They took their first Scandinavian tour, a 12 -dated tour consisting of two concerts in Denmark, two in Norway and eight in Sweden, which culminated in the two evenings at the Happy House in Stockholm. That tour gave the London punk quartet the opportunity to do something that hardly managed to do at home because of the great notoriety: playing live. He also offered the bassist Sid Vicious the opportunity to meet his favorite band, the Abbale.

To say it all the way, Vicious was not the only fan of

Abbale present in Sex Pistols. Ill previous bassist, Glen Matlockin fact he wrote the bass line of “Pretty Vacant” inspired by the hit of the Abbale “SOS” – In 2017 Matlock explained, “I did not copy it known by note, but it was the structure of that song that gave me the idea” – and, according to a Norwegian journalist who followed the group tour, the band listened only to the Abbale: “They had a cassette and was of the Abba. They listened to her 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, always”.

By pure chance i
Sex Pistols
they ended up meeting the
Abbale
in an airport in Sweden. This is the story of
John Lydon
(then I know how
Johnny Rotten
) given during an interview with Irish Independent. “We had drank in Scandinavia all day because the flights had been deleted, but Sid did not hold the alcohol. As soon as he saw the Abba, all with their combined white fur, similar to polar bears, ran to them. ‘Abba!’, Then he vomit. They were horrified. I think they took away from us. There was also a police van.”

In his 2016 autobiography, entitled
‘Lonely Boy’
the guitarist of
Sex Pistols Steve Jones
He described that tour as crowds. “It seemed that – among the media, the police, the fucking bastards of the GLC, all the other municipal councils in Great Britain and Malcolm McLaren who was bored – there was a sort of conspiracy that prevented us from playing live in the United Kingdom. So we left in Scandinavia and we did a tour there. It was true what they said of Sweden. Contrary to what we were used to, that is, of the north snakers reluctantly with big ankles and pimply.