Topic: Glen Matlock

Glen Matlock (born 27 August 1956 in West London, England) is a bass guitarist most famous for being in the original lineup of the punk rock band Sex Pistols. Drummer Paul Cook has said that Matlock came up with much of the music for the band's songs, while lead singer Johnny Rotten came up with the lyrics. Matlock is credited as a co-author on 10 of the 12 songs on Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols. He also continues to make his own records and tour with various bands, including the Pistols.

Matlock left the Sex Pistols in late February 1977, the legend being that he was 'thrown out' because he "liked The Beatles." Although Matlock has said that one of his biggest influences is The Faces, the Beatles anecdote is fictional. A claim made by the Pistols guitarist Steve Jones, regarding how he thought it was bizarre that Matlock was "always washing his feet", has also been misquoted and misinterpreted as the cause of Matlock's firing from the group. However, in his autobiography, I Was a Teenage Sex Pistol, Matlock stated that he left the band of his own volition as he was "sick of all the bullshit." In the 2000 documentary The Filth and the Fury, the band members generally agree that there was tension between Matlock and Rotten, which Matlock suggests was exacerbated by Malcolm McLaren's attempts to divide the two men. Matlock was replaced by Sid Vicious, and went on to form The Rich Kids, a New Wave power pop band, with Matlock (bass guitarist & singer), Midge Ure (guitarist, singer & keyboard player), Steve New (guitarist & singer) and Rusty Egan (drummer). After The Rich Kids he formed The Spectres with Tom Robinson guitarist Danny Kustow and then Hot Club with guitarist James Stevenson and singer Steve Allen.

In John Lydon's autobiography, Rotten: No Irish, No Blacks, No Dogs, Lydon claimed incorrectly that Matlock worked on later Sex Pistols material (including their album Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols) as a paid session musician. Matlock later played bass with Vicious in the short lived band Vicious White Kids. Matlock also played bass on the Iggy Pop album Soldier and The Damned album Not of This Earth.