Sex Pistols - God Save The Queen

There's quite a story behind this single, released in 1977 which was the Queen's silver Jubilee year too. After the problems with the last single Anarchy In The UK, EMI had dropped the band and they signed to A&M who quickly dropped them after a few copies of this single were pressed. God Save The Queen on A&M can earn you a lot of money if you have an original although Ebay is full of fakes. Virgin took the band on and gave the single a full release.

Rumour has it that the single actually reached number 1 during the Jubilee week, knocking Rod Stewart off the top spot but the powers at the BBC (and who knows where else) made sure the single stayed at number 2 in all the charts of that period including Top Of The Pops chart run down. To celebrate the 25th anniversary of the single, there was a call for everyone to buy the reissued single and get it to number 1, but I don't think it even got in the charts. The same happed this year as a Facebook campaign to get it to the top again, but even Johnny Rotten didn't want anything to do with it either!

I remember hearing and readiing all the fuss about the trouble with the band and Punk rock which was just exploding on the scene and my Mother saying to me "if you ever buy a Sex Pistols record I'll smash it up" well it just makes you want to buy it doesn't it! This scan is actually the limited edition 30th anniversay copy of the single, an exact copy on heavyweight vinyl.