#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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Nancy Spungen

Nancy at the roxy, london, summer 1977.

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Sid Vicious and Nancy Spungen photographed in Andy Shernoff's hotel room, London, November 1st, 1977 ♡ Photographed by Andy Shernoff

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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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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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Sex Pistols during a concert in Amsterdam, 1977

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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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Sex Pistols - Anarchy In The U.K

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#Sex Pistols #1977 to 1981 ERA OF MUSIC

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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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Nancy and Sid

Nancy with Sid on the day of Nancy's trial, July 7, 1977. Nancy's tourist visa expired, and Sid testified in her favor, stating that he would marry her. thanks to Sid's citizenship, she was released.

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

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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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