the bill grundy interview
'today' program
december 1st, 1976
GRUNDY: (to camera) they are punk rockers.  the new craze, they tell me.  their heroes?  no the nice, clean rolling stones.  you see they are as drunk as i am.  they are clean by comparison.  they're a group called the sex pistols, and i am surrounded by all of them.
JONES: (reading cue card) in action!
GRUNDY: just let us see the sex pistols in action.  come on, kids.  [film of the sex pistols is shown, back to grundy]  i am told that that group have received forty thousand pounds from a record company.  doesn't that seem, er, to be slightly opposed to their anti-materialistic view of life?
MATLOCK: no, the more the merrier.
GRUNDY: really?
MATLOCK: oh yeah.
GRUNDY: well tell me more then.
JONES: we've fuckin' spent it, ain't we?
GRUNDY: i don't know, have you?
MATLOCK: yeah, it's all gone.
GRUNDY: really?
JONES: down the boozer.
GRUNDY: really?  good lord!  now i want to know one thing.
MATLOCK: what?
GRUNDY: are you serious or are you just making me, trying to make me laugh?
MATLOCK: no, it's all gone.  gone.
GRUNDY: really?
MATLOCK: yeah.
GRUNDY: no, but i mean about what you're doing.
MATLOCK: oh yeah.
GRUNDY: you are serious?
MATLOCK: mmm.
GRUNDY: beethoven, mozart, bach and brahms have all died...
ROTTEN: they're all heroes of ours, ain't they?
GRUNDY: really?  what?  what were you saying, sir?
ROTTEN: they're WONDERFUL people.
GRUNDY: are they?
ROTTEN: oh yes!  they really turn us on.
JONES: but they're dead.
GRUNDY: well, suppose they turn other people on?
ROTTEN: (under his breath) that's just their tough shit.
GRUNDY: it's what?
ROTTEN: nothing.  a rude word.  next question.
GRUNDY: no, no, what was the rude word?
ROTTEN: shit.
GRUNDY: was it *really*?  good heavens, you frighten me to death.
ROTTEN: oh all right, siegfried...
GRUNDY: (turning to siouxsie sioux behind the band) what about you girls behind?
MATLOCK: he's like yer dad, inni, this geezer?
GRUNDY: are you, er...
MATLOCK: or your granddad.
GRUNDY: (to siouxsie) are you worried, or are you just enjoying yourself?
SIOUXSIE: enjoying myself.
GRUNDY: are you?
SIOUXSIE: yeah.
GRUNDY: ah, that's what i thought you were doing.
SIOUXSIE: i always wanted to meet you.
GRUNDY: did you really?
SIOUXSIE: yeah.
GRUNDY: we'll meet afterwards, shall we?
JONES: you dirty sod.  you dirty old man!
GRUNDY: well keep going, chief, keep going.  go on, you've got another five seconds, say something outrageous.
JONES: you dirty bastard!
GRUNDY: go on, again.
JONES: you dirty fucker! (laughter)
GRUNDY: what a clever boy!
JONES: what a fuckin' rotter.
GRUNDY: well, that's it for tonight...
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