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Most incongruously of all Matlock recently became a correspondent for a cruising magazine after they sent him on a voyage to Norway - 'I'd never been on cruise before and thought why not? I enjoyed it.' He sent his two sons, now grown up and in the music business, to a ВЈ20,000-a-year private school and is unapologetic about it too. The pair fell just two points short after beating fellow singers including Toyah Wilcox, Ralph McTell and Barbara Dickson. 'I'm a fan of the show, yes and I was pleased to win the trophy with Jim though we were disappointed we didn't win the jackpot for our charities,' he says. They went on to win a much sought-after Pointless trophy after answering tricky questions on topics such as Jean Paul Sartre and Shakespeare. It fizzled out after one hit but Matlock has worked successfully in the music world ever since, combining over the years with figures such as Iggy Pop and his friend Slim Jim Phantom (aka James McDonnell) of the Stray Cats, who was his partner in his appearance on a celebrity edition of Pointless last November. But I'm probably proudest of all of a couple of songs on my new album.'ДЄFTER leaving The Sex Pistols in 1977, Matlock formed what many hoped would be a New Wave supergroup called The Rich Kids, formed of himself, Midge Ure (who had been first choice to be the Pistols' lead singer), Rusty Egan (who with Ure later formed Visage) and Steve New. That was the kind of thing we were getting away from, the kind of music that had been around since the 1960s. It's not a love song, it's not about girls. 'Pretty Vacant is the first song that we really did that was like our manifesto. Both it and God Save The Queen were, ironically, not released as singles in 1977 until after Matlock departed. It was that song that, for him, encompassed the band's ethos and the reasons behind punk. His favourite song from his time with the Pistols was, he says, Pretty Vacant, which was almost completely his own work, apart from a couple of lines rewritten by Lydon. 'Sid was a good singer and frontman,' he concedes. He does not even hold a grudge against Sid Vicious and ended up playing live with him at a one-off gig before Sid's untimely death. A lot of bands around the time of punk didn't really last. There were quite a lot of tensions between me and him. He recalls of their time together in The Pistols: 'John Lydon had his moments but he was a good singer, good songwriter. I have seen Steve Jones and Paul more recently and we had some laughs.' It helped we were travelling first class and staying in nice hotels. I haven't seen John since 2008 but we got on great when the Pistols reformed. Even old punks have to get on with their lives.

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Nor does he decry Lydon's participation in reality shows or his appearances in TV commercials as a spokesman for Country Life butter. There was a lot of politics going on.'ДЄ thoughtful, laconic figure, Matlock made his peace with Lydon long ago - though one senses the pair will never be best mates - and they even played together in a reformed Pistols tour some 10 years ago. The real reason I left the Pistols was because John (lead singer Johnny Rotten aka John Lydon) and I weren't getting on and my position was becoming untenable.

I didn't particularly like The Beatles more than anyone else. 'That was just Malcolm being Malcolm, saying things. Sound bite-loving manager McLaren claimed in the press that he had 'thrown out' Matlock because the latter 'liked The Beatles'. After all, he was in the studio the day they appeared on a London regional current affairs show and caused an outcry by repeatedly swearing on live TV after being goaded into action by Bill Grundy, whose career never recovered from the scandal.

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'I still like the Tube now I can get a free Oyster card as I'm 61!' Matlock left the group in early 1977 at the height of its fame - or should that be notoriety.

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