Despite that, they fired him in early 1977 after months of tension between him and Johnny Rotten. Glen Matock wasn’t just the bassist in the Sex Pistols, but also one of their key songwriters. Image Credit: Bill Rowntree/Mirrorpix/Getty Images The Sex Pistols fire talented bassist Glen Matlock, replace him with human rubbish heap Sid Vicious.“It didn’t do my career a lot of good,” John said, “but I don’t regret it.”
Victim of Love was complete commercial bomb, and it wrapped up the most extraordinary decade of John’s career on a very sour note. But it hit after the “Disco Sucks” backlash was in full force, and John made baffling choices on the LP, like turning Chuck Berry’s “Johnny B. The move may have alienated some of their original fans, but that hardly mattered when you have songs as big as “Miss You,” “I Was Made For Lovin’ You,” and “Da Ya Think I’m Sexy?” And so it’s easy to understand why Elton John, coming off a string of disappointing albums like A Single Man and Blue Moves, decided to team up with English producer Pete Bellotte and craft the disco LP Victim of Love. (To hear our podcast version of this list, press play above, or listen on Apple Podcasts or Spotify.)īy late 1979, everyone from Rod Stewart to the Rolling Stones to Kiss had created enormous disco hits. Many rock stars have done horribly destructive things when it comes to drugs or their treatment of women, but that’s a whole other list. To be clear, we limited this largely to professional decisions that impacted careers. In this list, we look back at the long history of rock stars’ fuckups and call out the 50 biggest ones. Rock stars, like the rest of us, have to live with the consequences of their actions forever. They can lead to decades of bitter questions: “What if I didn’t wear that pink tank top in the music video? What if I didn’t say we were bigger than Jesus? What if I hadn’t given the Nazi salute at that British train station?”īut there’s no take-backs in life. When rock stars screw up, they do it in epic, spectacular ways, with consequences that are often catastrophic. But most of us regular humans make mistakes on pretty small scales, like leaving our house keys at work or forgetting to order fries in the drive-through. In the words of the 18th-century poet Alexander Pope, to err is human.
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