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No feelings, just gas.
Sex Pistols rock star Steve Jones says he once farted in front of the late Lisa Marie Presley just to get a rise out of Elvis’ daughter.
“I like to fart in front of people,” Jones, 69, told The Guardian in a new interview. “You can tell if someone’s cool or not from their reaction.”
“I farted in front of Lisa Marie Presley once,” the guitarist confessed. “She was sitting outside Starbucks and I was going in, and I just let one rip.”
Presley who passed away in January 2023 at age 54, “had this look on her face of disgust,” according to Jones.
“I just carried on walking into Starbucks,” he added. “Is that bad?”
In the interview, Jones shared several other anecdotes about his decades-long career and addressed rumors that he stole equipment from David Bowie in 1973 when the glam rock star was performing his final Ziggy Stardust shows at the Hammersmith Odeon in London.
“There’s definitely some truth in that. It wasn’t outside in trucks though – it was on the stage,” Jones admitted. “They played two nights, and after the first night they left all the gear up because they were playing there the next night.”
He continued, “I knew the Hammersmith Odeon like the back of my hand, I used to bunk in there all the time. I was like the Phantom of Hammersmith Odeon. It was about two in the morning. I stole a little minivan and I got in. There was no one there, other than a guy sitting on the fourth or fifth row, asleep – he was snoring. It was dead silent.”
Jones added, “I tiptoed across the stage, and I nicked some cymbals, the bass player’s [amplifier] head – a Sunn amp it was – and some microphones. I got Bowie’s microphone with his lipstick on it!”
As for whether he ever confessed his thievery to Bowie, who died in January 2016, the Sex Pistols rocker said, “I kind of did, on a phone call. He knew I’d done it; he thought it was funny.”
Almost backtracking, he added, “Actually, I don’t think I nicked anything off him, I don’t think the microphones were his. The only ones I felt bad for were Woody [drummer, Mick Woodmansey] and [bass player] Trevor Bolder.”
He went on, “I actually did make amends with Woody. He came on my radio show a few years back, and I thought I’d tell him live, when we were on the air, what I did. I was like, ‘I’ve got to make amends to you, Woody, I nicked some of your cymbals. What can I do to make it right?’ He goes, ‘I don’t know; give us a couple of hundred bucks.’ I think I gave him $300, so he was well happy.”
Along with original Sex Pistols members Paul Cook and Glen Matlock, plus vocalist Frank Carter, Jones is prepping for the band’s just-announced North American tour, their first since 2003.
The group will kick things off on September 16 in Dallas, Tex. before wrapping on October 16 in Hollywood, Calif.
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