mp3 : Sex Pistols – Anarchy In The UK
It’s more than 40 years since Anarchy in the UK propelled Sex Pistols into all of our lives. Recorded on 17 October 1976 and released by EMI Records on 26 November, it limped to just #38 in the singles charts. But then again, nobody was able to hear it due to a near blanket-ban on radio and TV and many of the bigger department stores, where many folk did buy their singles and albums at the time, refused to stock it.
By January 1977, the band had been fired by their label.
There would be three further singles in 1977, all of which went Top 10, before Johnny Rotten decided he’d had enough, quitting the band, dropping his punk aka for his proper name of John Lydon and forming Public Image Ltd.
This was the b-side:-
mp3 : Sex Pistols – I Wanna Be Me
Was the debut their finest 45? I really shouldn’t have to pose that question……….
