The Great Rock n Roll Swindler Ronnie Biggs dies at age 84

The British train robber Ronnie Biggs, notable for the "Great Train Robery" in Britain in 1963 , have died of illness at the age of 84.

After Johnny Rottens departure in 1978 from the Sex Pistols, manager Malcolm McLaren worked for train robber Ronnie Biggs in his Brazilian exile to replace Rotten as the new singer. All this in the Julian Temple´s Movie the Great Rock n Roll swindle. Of course this was a publicity stunt aimed to provoke the British public.

However Mr Biggs did record a tune with what was left of the Sex Pistols, Steve Jones and Paul Cook, "No One is Innocent".

He also recorded a track with the German punk band Die Toten Hosen.

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The Swindle Continues - Re-release of Pistols T G R n R Swindle.

Today, tomorrow etc there will be various rereleses of the disputed Sex Pistols record The Great Rock n Roll Swindle. Johnny Rotten claim no involvment in the record and by many, including me, one of the Manager Malcolm Maclarens cut n past works. A fantasy about what he thought punk rock was about. To be honest it had nothing to do with the real punk movment. How ever I remember buying and liking the record because there was this empty void and an ugre for Pistols songs. Anyway, the record was done and it is a part of my growing up, so I still like it in a way, even if its more of Malcolm McLarens mixed tape more than a real Sex Pistols Record.

The Classic Frank Sinatra song My Way performed by an alredy iconic Sid Vicious.


There are a few good stuff on the record, like the funny song about the sex crazy pirates, Friggin´in the Riggin´, My Way and

The was two releases of the Great Rock N Roll Swindle, One as a double LP one as a Single LP. The covers differ between those releases.

The origial double LP release in 1979.

The movie The Great Rock n Roll Swindle was made as a mocumetary by young film Student Julien Temple. That today more or less feel he was manipulated by McLaren to do the GRnRS as he did it. As to set the record straight he did a proper interview documentary, The Filth and The Fury in 2000.

The 1980 single LP release