Entertainment

Does a band count as a super group if at the time of its formation none of the players were really famous, only to attain a broad notoriety a bit later on? Good question, right? Thing is when said band is really just worthless nonsense, it doesn’t matter at all.

The curio counting as the Rich Kids doesn’t have more than a few minutes worth of music that anyone needs to hear – and really, maybe none of it matters at all. But for all the names associated with the short lived band (Glen Matlock, Mick Jones, Midge Ure and Mick Ronson) that’s a surprise.

Of course, relative to all the stunning first wave punk stuff, which for some reason has been relegated to being regarded as effortless schlock, the 1978 Ghosts of Princes in Towers shouldn’t sound too tremendous. In a vacuum, some of its passable. But where do things exist in vacuums?

Either way, the band sprung into existence after Matlock quit the Pistols being replaced by that pillar of musical skill, Sid Vicious. No hard feelings resulted and Matlock simply threw his new ensemble together and found himself and his group featured in D.O.A., a performance video detailing some early Brit punk bands. The weird thing – in that video at least, since the song didn’t wind up on the album – is to hear Matlock do a Pistols’ song he wrote.