Photo by Bob Gruen
In June 1977, the chaos surrounding the Sex Pistols reaches its zenith and the their status as the nation’s bêtes noires becomes overwhelming, as ‘God Save The Queen’ outrages Royalists and members of the British public swept up in the Jubilee celebrations.
Over the following weeks and months, the band gain both a sense of their huge popularity and importance, yet also the scale of their notoriety and the depth of Establishment animosity towards them, with the single being deliberately prevented from reaching Number 1 in the national charts and physical attacks on them in the streets.
Across the following 10 pages you’ll find a number of rare band portraits, posters and photographs of other memorabilia from that turning point in British musical and cultural history, all recently unearthed for the new and exhaustive box set edition of Never Mind The Bollocks, released last week by Universal Music.
Cover of NME, August 6, 1977
by Dave Wainwright
‘Holidays’ badge
by Barry Plummer
Press ad
by Bob Gruen
Bubblegum card
by Barry Plummer
Trondheim show flyer
