SEX PISTOLS: THE ORIGINAL RECORDINGS

20 tracks from the world's most controversial band

RELEASE DATE: May 27^th on UMe

Available on double vinyl, CD and limited edition double transparent green vinyl and collectors' cassettes

LOS ANGELES, April 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- For the first time in over 20 years, 20 of the Sex Pistol's recordings from 1976 to 1978 are collected together to tell the story of one of the world's most influential and extraordinary bands.

The Sex Pistols: The Original Recordings covers a historic period when the band were rarely out of the news or the charts and will be available on double vinyl and CD, as well as limited edition double transparent green vinyl and collectors' cassettes. All configurations of The Sex Pistols: The Original Recordings can be pre-ordered, HERE.

The Sex Pistols left the British Establishment shaking when they exploded onto the music scene, kickstarting what later became known as punk -  a term the band were never comfortable with. Young people ripped up not just their musical forebears but their social ones too and Sex Pistols were the snarling, ferocious figurehead of the revolution.

They made one perfect, 40-minute album for the ages in 1977's Never Mind The Bollocks and from its artwork to the individual players, the attitude and music - every bit of it influenced the world we live in today.

The record is frequently listed as one of the most influential albums of all time with musicians from Joy Division / New Order to Kurt Cobain, Noel Gallagher, Green Day, to YUNGBLUD all citing them as key inspiration.  And this was not just musically, punk showed that anyone could create and many took the hint across fashion, art and design and more.

Their 1977 single "God Save the Queen" was banned by the BBC and reached Number 1 on the U.K.'s NME chart, but appeared at Number 2 on the Official U.K. Singles chart, leading to accusations that the song was purposely kept off the top spot. For the only time in chart history, the track was listed as a blank, to avoid offence to the establishment.

The collection soundtracks the period and features key singles "Anarchy In The UK," "God Save The Queen," "Pretty Vacant" and "Holidays In The Sun," essential tracks from Never Mind The Bollocks, further originals and covers from The Great Rock & Roll Swindle soundtrack album and some essential B- sides in "I Wanna Be Me" (the flipside of "Anarchy…"), "Satellite" (the b-side of  "Holidays In The Sun") and "Did You No Wrong" (from "God Save The Queen").

Tracklist:

1. Pretty Vacant

2. God Save The Queen

3. Bodies

4. No Feelings

5. I Wanna Be Me

6. Anarchy In The UK

7. Submission

8. No Fun

9. (I'm Not Your) Stepping Stone

10. Holidays In The Sun

11. New York

12. Problems

13. Lonely Boy

14. Silly Thing

15. Something Else

16. C'Mon Everybody

17. Satellite

18. Did You No Wrong

19. Substitute

20. My Way

Formats:

• CD
• 2LP (Black vinyl)
• 2LP (Transparent Green)
• Cassette - 5 with individual artwork

SOURCE Universal Music Enterprises