My Way

"My Way" is a song written by Gilles Thibaut, Jacques Revaux, and Paul Anka, that was popularized by Frank Sinatra in 1969. Sid Vicious did a cover that was included in the Sex Pistols' soundtrack album, The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle (1979) and his own live album, Sid Sings (1979).Grow, Koby (2 February 2019). "Flashback: Sid Vicious Blows an Audience Away Singing 'My Way'". Rolling Stone.
== Background ==
Regarding the film's iconic scene where Vicious blows up the audience, director Julien Temple remarked in a 1979 NME interview that he "really like[d] the bit". He continued, "It's a very good example of the Sex Pistols' attitude. Especially given Sid's character as a kind of social actor, or whatever he was, with the annihilation of that song. To me it is tremendous. All the egotism and the individualism and the hypocrisy involved in that song and the audience lapping it up and getting shot to pieces is just wonderful to me".
Anka commented that he felt "somewhat destabilized by the Sex Pistols version".
However, Leonard Cohen was much more positive of the rendition, and said of the song:
"I never liked this song ['My Way'] except when Sid Vicious did it. Sung straight, it somehow deprives the appetite of a certain taste we'd like to have on our lips. When Sid Vicious did it, he provided that other side to the song; the certainty, the self-congratulation, the daily heroism of Sinatra's version is completely exploded by this desperate, mad, humorous voice. I can't go round in a raincoat and fedora looking over my life saying I did it my way—well, for 10 minutes in some American bar over a gin and tonic you might be able to get away with it. But Sid Vicious's rendition takes in everybody; everybody is messed up like that, everybody is the mad hero of his own drama. It explodes the whole culture this self-presentation can take place in, so it completes the song for me."Snow, Mat (February 1988). "Cohen's Way". The Guardian.
== Lyrics ==
== References ==
Category:1978 songs
Category:Cover songs
Category:Sex Pistols songs
Category:Sid Sings
Category:Sid Vicious songs
Category:Singles
Category:Songs
Category:The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle