Bill Grundy Meets The Sex Pistols...courtesy of www.televisionpersonalities.co.uk
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Video: Bill Grundy Meets Sex Pistols - the broadcast - youtube
The incident was reported on the front page of every U.K. paper, the most famous caption being titled "The Filth And The Fury".
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Steve Jones holding up a copy of Sex Pistols' "free press".
Bill Grundy was suspended two weeks for his part in the interview and his show was cancelled two months later. Sex Pistols were now a household name. Television Personalities even released a song in 1978 called "Where's Bill Grundy Now?" in memory of the incident.
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