Sex Pistols' Glen Matlock admits that his views on the Queen have 'not changed' - after the band re-released their banned hit God Save The Queen ahead of the Jubilee celebrations
It's been over 40 years since the Sex Pistols released anti-establishment song God Save The Queen, with the band rereleasing the track in time for Her Majesty's Platinum Jubilee celebrations.
And the band's original guitarist Glen Matlock, who co-wrote the song, has revealed that his views on the monarchy have 'not changed', noting that the Queen is out of touch to 'what's going on'.
During an appearance on Good Morning Britain on Friday, the 65-year-old admitted that he is 'glad to be out of England at the moment'.
Unchanged: Sex Pistols' Glen Matlock admits that his views on the Queen have 'not changed' - after the band rereleased their banned hit God Save The Queen ahead of the Jubilee celebrations
Presenters Ranvir Singh and Adil Ray questioned Glen on whether his anti-royal views had changed over time, with the musician responding: 'I've nothing personal against the queen, lots of people love and respect her, but I do think she's a bit of a sop to what's going on'
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'If I'd have realised it was the jubilee would've brought Queens Park Rangers T-shirt, that's as royalist as I get,' he continued.
Sex Pistols have rereleased the song in time for the Platinum Jubilee celebrations, after it was banned by the BBC for it's anti-royal lyrics.
Celebrations: The appearance comes as the Queen is celebrating her Platinum Jubilee, after 70 years on the thrown
God Save The Queen: It's been over 40 years since the Sex Pistols released anti-establishment song God Save The Queen, with the band rereleasing the track in time for Her Majesty's Platinum Jubilee celebrations
But despite the ban, the hit still stormed the charts - hitting no.2 in the UK single charts at the time.
And during his appearance on GMB, Glen explained that the song 'did shock people', sharing: 'I think the God Save The Queen song did shock people, we were just speaking our minds about things it wasn’t a political statement, we didn’t want to be controlled by that.
'But they were afraid that people didn’t subscribe to their way of thinking,' he continued.
Glen, who was live from Los Angeles, also shared that he was 'glad I'm not in the UK at the moment'.
Despite the hard-hitting lyrics of the song, Sex Pistols frontman John Lydon recently explained that the song is not against the queen as a person, but the royal family as an institution.
Not personal: 'I've nothing personal against the queen, lots of people love and respect her, but I do think she's a bit of a sop to what's going on', he told Ranvir Singh and Adil Ray
Joker: 'If I'd have realised it was the jubilee would've brought Queens Park Rangers T-shirt, that's as royalist as I get,' he continued
Chatting to Piers Morgan, John shared: 'It’s anti-royalist, but it’s not anti-human, I’ve got to tell the world this. Everyone presumes that I’m against the royal family as human beings, I’m not.'
The appearance also comes just days after new biopic Pistol has been released on streaming platform Disney+.
Hitting out at the miniseries, Glen hinted that the creators hadn't been honest with him, telling Ranvir and Adil: 'I wasn’t that involved but I was kind of, what I was promised and what has unfolded hasn’t been the same thing.'
The biopic is based on Steve Jones' memoir Lonely Boy: Tales from a Sex Pistol, with Glen cryptically adding: 'I was asked what I think by Steve Jones as its from his point of view and I said “mate you’ve got a shocking memory"'
Lineup: Glen was the original guitarist for the Sex Pistols (L-r Glen, Johnny Rotten (aka John Lydon), Steve Jones and Paul Cook)
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