Talk:Holidays in the Sun (song)

Last single

"Holidays in the Sun" wasn't the last single by the original line-up. Technically "Anarchy in the UK" was, being the only single recorded when Glen Matlock was still in the band. "Holidays..." was the second line-up and is credited to "Cook, Jones, Rotten, Vicious". --Jd204 23:56, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

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"Well I was waiting for the communist call", what does that mean?

Holidays in The Sun is my favourite Pistols song by far. But I can not make heads or tails about the line: "Well I was waiting for the communist call." Can someone please tell me the REAL or OFFICIAL or ACCURATE meaning behind this? The rest of the song makes perfect sense. It's just this bit that stumps me. Can anybody REALLY help me understand what this line means. Thank-you. :) (120.149.122.57 (talk) 03:20, 26 June 2014 (UTC))

See WP:NOTFORUM. "Talk pages are not mere general discussion pages about the subject of the article, nor are they a helpdesk for obtaining instructions or technical assistance." Doc talk 07:20, 28 June 2014 (UTC)

Riff "knicked" from the Jam song "In The City"

Listening to "In The City", I couldn't help but notice the main guitar riff is pretty damn close. Apparently, according to an "Uncut" 2007 issue, the Jam writer got in a fight with Sid Vicious about it. Can anyone confirm from "Uncut Magazine" or is the cited reference sufficient? If it's enough, should it be used as a citation?

Paul Weller:   "I didn't mind them nicking it -- you've got to get your ideas from somewhere, haven't you?" Weller told Uncut magazine in 2007. One night at the Speakeasy Club in London, a drunken Sid Vicious picked a fight with Weller about the song. "He just came up to me and he was going on about 'Holidays In the Sun' where they'd nicked the riff from 'In the City," said Weller. "He just came up and nutted me. So I returned it."  --diffuser.fm

--Replysixty (talk) 05:36, 13 September 2015 (UTC)

Sleeve controversy

We need something in this article about the sleeve being banned and withdrawn. Apparently they ripped off some travel brochure to make it and whoever oven the brochure sued them. I remember the UK copies switching to plane sleeves and then you could only get the original sleeve on imports. If someone else doesn't beat me to it, I'll try to find some RS to verify this. Robman94 (talk) 02:57, 15 September 2015 (UTC)

Vicious' real surname

The song is credited to "John Beverly" et al., but Sid Vicious' page spells it "Beverley". Does anyone happen to know if the spelling mistake is original to the single, or is a Wikipedia original? כרסומת (talk) 13:31, 11 September 2018 (UTC)

Covers ?

Is it worth mentioning cover versions of this song? Skid Row did one that was released on "Stairway to Heaven/Highway to Hell" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stairway_to_Heaven/Highway_to_Hell). Not sure if SR's version was released on any other LPs. FiggazWithAttitude (talk) 21:02, 23 September 2019 (UTC)

Satellite subject matter.

The current article describes the song Satellite as "a song about the band's early performances in "satellite towns". Notwithstanding the source reference, in which members of the band make this claim, there's no mention of performances or travelling to them in the lyrics - the song is addressed to a girl/young woman from such a town who is trying to join the Pistols' social circle, and is highly contemptuous of her. It kind of needs a source with a more critical analysis of the lyrics because the information taken from the source reference doesn't really give an accurate description of the song, even if from the band's perspective that's the situation in which they've met the young woman and been inspired to write it. Freewheeling frankie (talk) 22:59, 7 February 2023 (UTC)