Sex Pistols - Through My Eyes (Wessex Studios Rehearsal Session October 1976)

The reaction of the mainstream press was predictable. The editor of Billboard said: “Million is just a piece of racist, homophobic garbage, thoughtless anger ... offensive to anyone who believes that the purpose of art is to convey the truth to people.” (It is unlikely that anyone heard about this destination, but that’s not the point.) Radio avoided the song. Even some (ad-dependent) rock magazines condemned the group. Slash was ashamed of his family and almost hid. When Lies came out, he called his mother: “My mother - She is black - she was then in Europe, and we talked for the first time in years. l, did she hear the tape, and she replied that she didn’t, but then my younger brother came up and explained that she had heard, but was so shocked that she simply didn’t know what to talk about on the phone with me. I understand her. No matter what I say in the pressI have nothing to make amends for. ”