#SEX PISTOLS 1977

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FROM THE PHOTOGRAPHIC YOUTH MUSIC CULTURE ARCHIVE -- WAY BACK TO '77.

PIC(S) INFO: Spotlight on a UK punk youth wearing a SEX PISTOLS "God Save the Queen" badge, c. 1977. 📸: Sergio Zalis + Sleeve art to the 1977 single of the same name, and which reportedly shot to #1 in the UK charts against all odds.

MINI-OVERVIEW: "On June 7th 1977, the Jubilee holiday itself, a certain punk band going by the name of the Sex Pistols sailed down the Thames playing their own take on the national anthem ‘God Save The Queen’. The Punk revolution was in full swing and the Pistol’s second single reached number 2 in the UK charts. This led to accusations by some that the charts had been “fixed” to prevent the song from reaching number one. In March 2001, the BBC wrote that the single “reached number one in the UK in 1977 despite being banned by the BBC.""

-- PYMCA (Photographic Youth Music Culture Archive)

Sources: https://pymca.wordpress.com/2012/05/30/theme-of-the-week-6-punk & Progrography (blogspot).

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The Sex Pistols, preparing to sign their contract with A&M Records in front of Buckingham Palace- 1977.

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sid and nancy at a cinema in london, 1977 unknown photographer

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Johnny Rotten in Teddy Boy quiff & attire with a studded leather dog collar around his neck as a splash of punk attitude in 1977 (since he's wearing the same clothes as in the Sex Pistols photo session by Adrian Boot at the Glitterbest offices in Oxford Str. in 1977).

According to Omega Auctions which sold this photograph for £750 in 2023, it originally belonged to Helen of Troy of the Sex Pistols entourage:

"...this photograph originally belonged to Helen Wellington-Lloyd. This was Helen Wellington-Lloyd’s favourite photograph of Johnny Rotten and was the only photograph of the Sex Pistols she had framed in her living room in her flat in West Hampstead where she lived until 1999."

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1970s Punks

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On 1st July 1977 the Sex Pistols released their third single “Pretty Vacant”….

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28th October 1977

Sex Pistols release their first and last studio album Never Mind The Bollocks Here's The Sex Pistols.

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"God Save the Queen" is the 2nd single by SEX PISTOLS. It was released on May 27th, 1977. Happy 47th year release date anniversary! #SexPistols

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Led Zeppelin, The Damned ...and John Bonham causing chaos

While The Damned was making waves at London’s Roxy in January ’77, Page went to see the band play along with Zep singer Robert Plant and drummer John Bonham. The three of them — then at the height of their fame — didn’t go unnoticed at the club.

A drunken Bonham made his presence felt the most. After The Damned finished their first set, Bonham got on stage and demanded the band play more, calling them names while he did so. Zep’s rambunctious drummer didn’t go quietly that night.

“John let out a tirade of abuse at [The Damned]. He was shouting, ‘Where’s the f*cking band gone? They’ve only been playing for 15 minutes. We play for three f*cking hours because we’re real men and not a bunch of wimps. Where’s that Mouse Scabies?'”

— Glen Matlock (Sex Pistols bassist)

After The Damned’s drummer didn’t return, Bonham vowed to play a set himself. However, by that point the punks in the audience had grown impatient with Bonham. As members of the Zeppelin entourage tried to intervene, Bonham continued his tirade.

“All the punks were throwing things at [Bonham], and he was very, very pissed. Unfortunately, he didn’t manage to play very well and made a bit of a mess of things.”

— Dave Vanian (Damned singer) Rolling Stone, 2017

Andrew Czezowski, who founded the club, recalled Bonham smashing cymbals all over the place and generally causing a ruckus before getting removed by roadies. “He had to be dragged out of the club,” Czezowski said. For their parts, Page and Plant were much more behaved.

They chatted with Matlock of the Sex Pistols and checked in with the members of The Damned as well. “We used to call Brian [James] the riff-meister,” Captain Sensible told Rolling Stone. “That’s why Jimmy Page was such a fan of the band at the time. He saw something special in Brian’s guitar style and writing.”

By Eric Schaal, Showbiz CheatSheet

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ON THIS DAY FORTY-SEVEN YEARS AGO -- THE PISTOLS TAKE A BOAT TRIP DOWN THE THAMES.

PIC(S) INFO: 47 Years Ago TODAY, on June 7, 1977, the SEX PISTOLS took a boat trip down the Thames to herald the release of their new single "God Save the Queen."

"The Pistols take the "stage" – at the back of the raised covered area: the conditions are appalling, and it's amazing that any sort of sound comes out. The main one is feedback – this delays their start and is never fully resolved. Any blasé traces are swept away – pulses race/everyone rushed to be the front. Pure mania.

Rotten gives up on losing the feedback and the band slams into "Anarchy," right on cue with the Houses of Parliament. A great moment. It's like they've been uncaged – the frustration in not being able to play bursts into total energy and attack. Rotten's so close all you can see is a snarling mouth and wild eyes, framed by red spikes. Can't shake that feedback: he complains, won't sing for the first verse of No Feelings, but the others carry on. More frustration to explode."

-- JON SAVAGE, "SOUNDS" (UK)

Sources: www.picuki.com/media/3385198679347538740, The Sun, Flickr, LJMU Library, various, etc...

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Never Mind the Bollocks, promotional poster, November 197

(1000 x 650mm.)

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Punk Magazine staff: photograher Roberta Bayley, journalist Mary Harron & co-founding editor John Holstrom as captured outside CBGB by Godlis in 1977.

Mary Harron, a filmmaker in later years best known as the director of American Psycho, had actually lived in England and had attended Oxford University before moving to NYC and becoming part of its '70s punk scene. In 1976 she was sent to London to interview the Sex Pistols for Legs McNeil's legendary Punk Magazine:

"You could really feel the world moving and shaking that autumn of 1976 in London. I felt that what we had done as a joke in New York had been taken for real in England by a younger and more violent audience. And that somehow in the translation, it had changed, it had sparked something different. What to me had been a much more adult and intellectual bohemian rock culture in New York, had become this crazy teenage thing in England. I remember going to see the Damned play that summer, who I thought were really terrible. I was wearing my Punk magazine T-shirt and I got mobbed. I mean I can't tell you the reception I got. Everyone was so excited that I was wearing this T-shirt that said "Punk". I was just speechless. There I was backstage, and there were hundreds of little kids, like nightmares, you know, like little ghouls with bright red dyed hair with white faces. They were alll wearing chains and swastikas and things stuck in their head, and I was like, 'Oh my god, what have we done? What have we created?' I felt like we had been doing this thing--and now that we had created something else that we never intended, or expected. I think English punk was much more volatile and edgy and more dangerous." Mary Harron from "Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk"

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Johnny Rotten dei Sex Pistols a Londra, 1977.