Pauline was a mad fan who used to turn up everywhere. Flag andy on June 01, In the film Sid and Nancy the title characters, played by Gary Oldman and Chloe Webb[19] sing the song for the siblings of Nancy Spungen to their delight and to the horror of their parents.
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The juxtaposition of bodies by the sex pistols lyrics in Roseville those different psychic things in your head and all the confusion, the anger, the frustration, you have to capture in those words. Retrieved 9 April General Comment this song is a true story about a crazy girl that stalked johnny, her name was pauline and she "lived" in a treehouse in the back yard of the mental instution in johnny's bodies by the sex pistols lyrics in Roseville, and one day she showed up at johnny's door, completely naked holding a plastic garbage bag that had a dead fetus in it, and then proceeded to tell him that she gave herself a coat-hanger abortion because she didn't want to have anyone else's child but his.
With its repeated mentions of "I'm not an animal," of "Mummy," and of a dying baby, the song has been interpreted as anti-abortion, [4] music critic Robert Christgau contemporarily calling it "effectively anti-abortion, anti-woman, and anti-sex.
Early on I had an acceptance of what life really is. Anarchy In Leeds The lyrics contain very graphic imagery about a terminated foetus and feature a great deal of profanity for the time: the third and final verse begins with a couplet in which the word fuck is repeated five times in rapid succession.
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August Wessex Studios , London. Incorrect Password. Sex Pistols Expose. She was a no-one who killed her baby She sent her letters from the country She was an animal She was a bloody disgrace. Most of the band also had experiences with Pauline, [3] but have spoken less about it.