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Matlock was replaced by Rotten's buddy Sid Vicious, previously the drummer of two interior circle punk bands, Siouxsie and the Banshees and the Flowers of Romance. Vicious, in more and more dangerous form, was brought by a buddy who then took him to New York; Vicious took a mixture of valium and methadone (later excused as "nervous exhaustion") and was hospitalised on arrival. The interview made the band a household title in a single day in Britain and introduced punk into the mainstream. Jones and Stewart meant to play primarily Chicago blues, but had been agreeable the Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley numbers Jagger and Richards delivered to the band. Colin Newman of the early publish-punk band Wire, described it as "the clarion name of a generation". Steve Jones off-handedly got here up with the title because the band debated what to name the album. Belying the frequent perception that punk bands could not play their instruments, contemporary music press reviews, later important assessments of concert recordings, and testimonials by fellow musicians point out that the Pistols had developed into a tight, ferocious live band. Number 1 was usually screened at concert venues before the band took stage. The 1978 "No one Is Innocent"/"My Way" was adopted in 1979 by Vicious's cowl of Eddie Cochran's "Something Else" (quantity three, and the most important-promoting single under the Sex Pistols identify); Jones singing an authentic, "Silly Thing" (quantity six); and Vicious's second Cochran cowl, "C'mon Everybody" (number three).