IN MEMORIAM -- HAPPY POSTHUMOUS 77th BIRTHDAY, JAMIE REID.

PIC INFO: Resolution at 1945x2570 -- Spotlight on a SEX PISTOLS "Anarchy In The U.K." fanzine issue No.1, Soo Catwoman on the cover, and the only issue produced in conjunction with the "Anarchy" UK tour, c. December 1976, 12½in x 17¾in (31.8cm x 45cm).

Artwork/design by the late, great Jamie Reid (January 16, 1947 -- August 8, 2023), another legend lost.

Source: www.bonhams.com/auction/25431/lot/72/sex-pistols-an-anarchy-in-the-uk-fanzine.

Sex Pistols by Jamie Reid - 1976.

“BONDAGE SUIT” — S/S 1976 VIVIENNE WESTWOOD x MALCOLM MCLAREN

This bondage suit in black cotton was designed by Vivienne Westwood and Malcolm McLaren for their Spring/Summer collection in 1976. It consists of a genderless matching two-piece jacket and trousers. The trousers have a zippered seam under the crotch and a detachable black towelling 'bum flap' and 'hobble' straps. The look is completed with black boots and a beret and handkerchief depicting the Sex Pistols logo. The outfit borrows elements from army combat gear, the motorcyclist's Belstaff and fetish wear, and was the archetypal Punk outfit popularised by bands like the Sex Pistols.

Debbie Juvenile, An Assistant and Early Model Of Vivienne Westwood in the '70s

Johnny Rotten goofing around along with the rest of the Sex Pistols & Co. during a traditional Christmas dinner party hosted by Caroline Coon in Ladbroke Grove, London, as captured on 25th December 1976 by Ray Stevenson (pic 1) and Leee Black Childers (pics 2 & 3).

Caroline Coon: "...Everybody was exhausted from the Anarchy tour. I wanted to have a traditional Christinas. Fortunately, Jonh Ingham was house-sitting a huge house just off Ladbroke Grove. I did turkey, Christmas pudding and all the trimmings. It was an open house: everybody from all the main bands came...".

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Sex Pistols, the Clash, the Damned and Johnny Thunders and the Heartbreakers; at the Kings Hall, Derby, December 4, 1976

Sex Pistols, 1976

Vivienne Westwood on stage with the Sex Pistols at the Notre Dame Hall 1976

Photos by Ray Stevenson

ON THIS DAY 48 YEARS AGO -- "PARTY WITH THE SEX PISTOLS."

PIC INFO: Resolution at 2164x3200 -- Spotlight on a SEX PISTOLS handbill, printed in black and white with "ransom note" style lettering, and two illustrations of the band, performing live at Nashville Rooms, 171 North End Road, London, UK, on April 29th 1976. Graphic design by Nils Stevenson & Wallington Lloyd.

PPIC #2: SEX PISTOLS performing on the 29th of April 1976, live at Nashville Rooms (the band's fourth and last appearance at said venue), 171 North End Road, London, UK. 📸: © Ray Stevenson.

Sources: www.philjens.plus.com/pistols/pistols/Flyer_NashvilleRoomsApril76.html & Facebook.

An excerpt from the famous man who kicked his own TV after watching the live broadcast of the Sex Pistols on the Today show aired on the Thames Television channel (December, 1976)

LECTURE 16: PUNK! The Sex Pistols perform “Anarchy in the UK,” their debut single from November 1976. The song was featured on their only studio album, 1977′s Never Mind the Bollocks, Here’s the Sex Pistols. Of all the bands in the history of rock music to only release one studio album, The Sex Pistols are probably the most influential. Never Mind the Bollocks was – and remains – a landmark album that helped to usher in a Golden Age of Punk Rock. Within months of its release on October 28, 1977, The Sex Pistols were essentially no more. Note that this video combines scenes of both of the Pistols’ bass players, Glen Matlock and Sid Vicious.

Bellamente vacío: el arte de los Sex Pistols, en imágenes Noviembre de 1976

Noviembre de 1976. Publicidad de EMI Sex Pistols desviada de la pared de las oficinas de Glitterbest.

Esta foto publicitaria desfigurada con estilo punk colgada en la pared de Glitterbest, la empresa propiedad de Malcolm McLaren.

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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