Daily Star Sunday

Roberts on top in film scene poll

- By GRAEME CRITCHLEY

PRETTY Woman steals the votes for Britain’s favourite sex scene.

The tense piano scene between Julia Roberts and Richard Gere in the 1990 romantic comedy took 86% of the votes.

The famous scene is so popular that 65% want to recreate it at home.

Jack and Rose from Titanic seal second place thanks to the famous steamy handprint as Jack and Rose’s relationsh­ip comes to a climax.

Third is The Notebook’s rain-kissing scene, chosen by 81% according to OnBuy.com.

PUNK legend Glen Matlock reckons the Sex Pistols’ most famous fight with their fans wasn’t what it seemed.

The band captivated and appalled with their obscenity-laden attacks on Brits’ social conformity at the start of the punk movement.

But the bassist, one of the original members of the band, fondly recalls their high-profile clashes.

One of the biggest involved a showdown with Joe Strummer before he dropped everything to form The Clash.

The Pistols’ gigs alongside Strummer’s 101ers launched their career after they got caught fighting the audience.

Matlock, 63, remembers the moment he lit the touchpaper on one of rock

’n roll’s greatest battles of the bands.

He told the Daily Star

Sunday: “Right before Joe Strummer took to the stage at Acklam Hall, I crept up behind him and yelled, ‘Aiaiaiaiah’ to put him off.

“He spun round and snarled

‘Right. Sex Pistols eh? We’ll see tomorrow night!’”

The rivalry erupted on St George’s Day, 1976, at The Nashville Rooms in London’s West Kensington.

The likes of Sid Vicious, Billy Idol, Siouxsie Sioux and Vivienne Westwood were watching as tempers flared and the crowd started fighting – with the Pistols piling in. Matlock said: “The Nashville had a stage with a curtain that nobody ever used. We did because we always had a sense of occasion. “Malcolm McLaren pushed the button and there we were in all our glory.

“All the trouble started when we began playing and people took exception. “The fight at the Nashville, that wasn’t really anything to do with us, but Joe Stevens’ picture of it made the front page of the Melody Maker, so we were ‘fighting with the audience.’ “A fight is the worst thing to happen when you’re in a band, it stops people from watching you perform. So we actually were trying to stop them fighting, but it just looked like we had started it.”

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