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No One Is Innocent | align="center" bgcolor="orange" colspan="3"|No One Is Innocent | | lign="center" bgcolor="orange" colspan="3"|Single by the Sex Pistols | | lign="left" valign="top"|Released | colspan="2" valign="top"|June 30, 1977 | | lign="left" valign="top"|Recorded | colspan="2" valign="top"|February 1978 | | lign="left" valign="top"|Genre | colspan="2" valign="top"|Punk rock | | lign="left" valign="top"|Length | colspan="2" valign="top"|2 min 59 s | | lign="left" valign="top"|Record label | colspan="2" valign="top"|Virgin Records | | lign="left" valign="top"|Producer | colspan="2" valign="top"|? | | gcolor="orange" colspan="3"|Sex Pistols Chronology | align="top"|Pretty Vacant
(1977) | valign="top"|Holidays in the Sun
(1977) | valign="top"|No One Is Innocent
(1978) | "No One Is Innocent" is the fifth single by the British punk band the Sex Pistols and was released on June 30, 1978. Recorded after the departure of Johnny Rotten from the band, the vocals were performed by notorious British criminal Ronnie Biggs. The writing credits for the song are Paul Cook, Steve Jones, and Biggs. The lyrics reference their earlier hit "God Save the Queen", by beginning each verse "God save...", followed by many, often unsavory, characters, starting with the Sex Pistols themselves. They refer to Bill Grundy, the television host who started a great controversy years earlier when Steve Jones swore on his live show (egged on by Grundy), as well as Martin Bormann and "nazis on the run". Notorious child murderers Myra Hindley and Ian Brady, are mentioned, along with politicians and the police (referred to as "pigs"), Idi Amin, and finally Biggs himself. The final lines of the last verse are "God save the good samaritan and God save the worthless creep". Associating all the characters together, both good and bad (including themselves) while claiming that "no one is innocent" is examplary of the nihilistic attitude of the Sex Pistols. Bormann is also mentioned in Biggs' recording of the earlier Pistols song "Belsen Was A Gas", which also makes light of the holocaust ("No One is Innocent", while calling Brady "horrible", dismisses the nazis as "only having fun"). Bormann was for years thought to have fled to Brazil to escape prosecution for war crimes following World War II, much like Biggs himself had done following his escape from prison after 1963's great train robbery. The title of the song was originally supposed to be "Cosh the Driver" ("cosh" being British slang for bludgeon), a reference to the near-fatal beating that the train driver took in Biggs' robbery years before. Virgin Records vetoed the idea. The song appears on the album The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle. The B-side of "No One Is Innocent" was Sid Vicious's famous rendering of Frank Sinatra's "My Way". It peaked at number six on UK pop charts.
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