“American audiences are just the same as anybody else. Except a bit more boring.”

— Sid Vicious

Reported in Julien Temple, The Filth and the Fury: The Sex Pistols (2000), p. 207.

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“American audiences are just the same as anybody else. Except a bit more boring.”

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