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Glen Matlock is a United Kingdom bassist, singer, songwriter, and composer. Born in London in 1956, he is a member of the bands Sex Pistols, Rich Kids, Faces, and Vicious White Kids. His musical career began in 1973, and he plays the bass guitar and voice within the punk rock and new wave genres. He is educated at Saint Martin's School of Art and Central Saint Martins.
Matlock has written four works, including Triggers, The Filthy Lucre Tour, and I was a teenage Sex Pistol. He speaks English and is recognized as a male artist from the United Kingdom.
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London, England
English musician, best known for being the bass guitarist in the original line-up of the punk rock band the Sex Pistols. He is credited as a songwriter on 10 of the 12 songs on the Sex Pistols' only album, Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols, although he had left the band early in the recording process, credited as bassist and backing vocalist on only one song on the album, "Anarchy…
Known for
- Rod Stewart, le trublion de la pop anglaise — Self2025
- The Dark Fantastic — Self2025
- Sex Pistols & Frank Carter - Hellfest 2025 — Self2025
- I Was a Teenage Sex Pistol — Self2025
- Squaring the Circle (The Story of Hipgnosis) — Self2023
- Never Mind the Buzzcocks — Self - Panellist2021
- My View: Clem Burke — Self2019
- Pero Lovsin - You Can — Himself2018
- Two Sevens Clash: Dread Meets Punk Rockers — Self2017
- No Future - Als der Punk Wellen schlug — Glen Matlock2016
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Active from
- 1956
Discography
Member of
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 1,195
- Total plays
- 10,067
Tags
this is the one - the only Glen Matlock. An original Sex Pistol, fighting out of the blue & white corner that is West London, the white city whirlwind. The man who wrote Anarchy in the UK, God Save the Queen & Pretty Vacant. Now in The Philistines.....harder, faster, louder....check them out ! If we are playing your town, come see the circus ! We sound like The Monkees had a baby with Slade & Godzilla. THE BOLLOCKS ! <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Glen+Matlock">Read more on Last.fm</a>
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Place of birth
- London
- Occupation
- songwriter
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Genre
- new wave
- Instrument
- voice
- Official website
- glenmatlock.grapewire.net
- Image
- Glen Matlock - Sex Pistols 2025-4 (cropped).jpg
- Height
- 1.70
Show 6 more facts
- date of birth
- 1956-08-27
- Commons category
- Glen Matlock
- start of work period
- 1973-00-00
- member of
- Vicious White Kids
- social media followers
- 34892
- name in native language
- Glen Matlock
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