According to John Lydon, she showed up once at his door wearing nothing but a clear plastic bag and holding an aborted foetus.
In a 1977 interview, when asked about the backstory of the song, Lydon also claimed that she was arrested after entering a discotheque with the aborted foetus.
A 2017 article in The Independent described the song as "a gurgling bloody depiction of an abortion replete with a volley of expletives from Rotten".
[13] Musically, it is also the fastest and heaviest[14] song in the Sex Pistols canon — characterized by thudding drums, droning buzzsaw guitar, and shouted vocals.
[16][17] The Sex Pistols' album Filthy Lucre Live - recorded at Finsbury Park, London on 23 June 1996, and released on 29 July that year - includes a performance of "Bodies.
"[18] This same performance is a B-side on the "Pretty Vacant (live)" single, under the title "Buddies,"[19] and is a different mix from the track on the live album (the audience noise is mixed much higher, with John Lydon's vocal barely audible under the audience singing the first verse).
[21] The song has been covered by Liam Gallagher,[22] Veruca Salt,[23] Velvet Revolver,[23] Suede,[24] The Almighty,[25] Killing Joke,[26] Sepultura,[27] Raimundos[23] and Peppermint Creeps.