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The original bass player for the Sex Pistols, Glen Matlock, was fired in 1977 and replaced by the barely competent Sid Vicious. I Was a Teenage Sex Pistol is the founding history of the leading punk band where Matlock traces the Pistols' early influences the Who, the Small Faces, and, remarkably, David Bowie and describes the squabbles that hampered their four-year career. ''The Sex Pistols were a total failure,'' says Matlock, who was more interested in playing music than making history, and who later formed the Rich Kids. ''It was like a case of premature ejaculation. Over in a flash, and deeply unsatisfying.'' As the first band-member's view of the group that rescued rock from the foolishness of the mid-'70s, this is an engaging if erratic memoir. B




