Never Mind The Bollocks Here's The Sex Pistols
Poster
1977 (printed)
1977 (printed)
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Colour offset lithograph poster Never Mind The Bollocks Here’s The Sex Pistols, advertising the Sex Pistols album of the same title. The graphic images of the Sex Pistols singles sleeves (Anarchy in the UK, God Save the Queen, Holidays in the Sun etc.) are arranged here as a collage, against a dark ground.
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| Title | Never Mind The Bollocks Here's The Sex Pistols |
| Materials and techniques | Colour offset lithography |
| Brief description | Colour offset lithograph poster 'Never Mind The Bollocks Here’s The Sex Pistols', advertising the Sex Pistols album of the same title. The graphic images of the Sex Pistols singles sleeves arranged as a collage. Designed by Jamie Reid and John Varnom. Virgin Records Ltd. Courtesy of Kasper de Graaf at Assorted Images. Great Britain. 1977. |
| Physical description | Colour offset lithograph poster Never Mind The Bollocks Here’s The Sex Pistols, advertising the Sex Pistols album of the same title. The graphic images of the Sex Pistols singles sleeves (Anarchy in the UK, God Save the Queen, Holidays in the Sun etc.) are arranged here as a collage, against a dark ground. |
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| Credit line | Given by Dr John Bold |
| Object history | This poster is, in effect, a summation of Reid’s early work for the Pistols. Reid’s ‘guerrilla graphics’ had the desired effect of stunning a complacent music business and record-buying public sated by a preponderance of airbrush illustration and glamorous group photography. |
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| Bibliographic reference | Edge, Kevin. The Art of Selling Songs : Graphics for the Music Business, 1690-1990. London : Futures Publications, 1991. |
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| Accession number | E.839-1985 |
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| Record created | June 30, 2009 |
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