For more info on the single see this link…

For a list of participating UK Records Shops please see the official UK Record Store Day website.

The A-Side is a previously unreleased version of Pretty Vacant recorded live at the Hammersmith Apollo on 2nd September 2008.  Featuring a ‘Country & Western’ style intro it, as John Lydon says, “brings out the c*nt in country”.

The flip-side is a 1977 mono mix of Pretty Vacant which was only previously available on a rare American promo of the single.

The 3,500 limited edition, numbered 7”s come in a faithfully replicated version of the original American promo.

Pretty Vacant was originally released in July 1977 and was the third single taken from Never Mind The Bollocks Here’s The Sex Pistols.  Another masterpiece, the single, with its rallying cry ‘and we don’t care!’ swept the nation.

The A-Side is a previously unreleased version of Pretty Vacant recorded live at the Hammersmith Apollo on 2nd September 2008.  Featuring a ‘Country & Western’ style intro it, as John Lydon says, “brings out the c*nt in country”.

The flip-side is a 1977 mono mix of Pretty Vacant which was only previously available on a rare American promo of the single.

The 3,500 limited edition, numbered 7”s come in a faithfully replicated version of the original American promo.

Pretty Vacant was originally released in July 1977 and was the third single taken from Never Mind The Bollocks Here’s The Sex Pistols.  Another masterpiece, the single, with its rallying cry ‘and we don’t care!’ swept the nation.

Steve is appearing in this weekend’s episode of Showtime’s Emmy Award winning show Californication, which airs on Sunday 27th Jan at 10.30pm ET/PT. He plays ‘Krull’, who is the long-time tour manager for a mad-as-a-hatter rocker named Atticus Fetch (played by Tim Minchin).

What’s Californication? 
“When fast-living novelist Hank Moody left the literary haunts of New York for the pleasure seeking splendors of L.A, he thought he’d have fame, fortune and the love of a good woman. Now his personal life is in shambles, his career is on the brink of self-destruction and he still just can’t stop yielding to every temptation. Golden Globe® winner David Duchovny stars in the Showtime Original series that takes you on a wild, witty, and sexy ride in the California fast lane.”  Visit the Showtime website to find out more about the show

Here’s a video with the cast of the show talking about this season’s guest stars, including Steve, on this season’s Californication…

And you can follow Steve on Twitter here: https://twitter.com/JonesysJukebox

1977: The Bollocks Diaries – iBook Preview Video

Available from today, December 17th 2012, our brand new iBook, “The Sex Pistols 1977: The Bollocks Diaries” details every significant Sex Pistols event in 1977.

The iBook is an interactive version of the printed book included in the Never Mind The Bollocks, Here’s The Sex Pistols Super-Deluxe Box Set. Written with former Mojo editor Pat Gilbert, the iBook includes numerous quotes from key figures such as John Lydon, Steve Jones, Glen Matlock, Paul Cook, Richard Branson, Fred Vermorel, Julien Temple, Vivienne Westwood and more.

The iBook also includes audio clips from Never Mind The Bollocks, Here’s The Sex Pistols, interactive image galleries and an exclusive-to-the-iBook video interview with Steve Jones, a further video interview with Richard Branson and previously unseen photos, recording details, memorabilia and much more.

1977 was the year that changed everything. The year the Sex Pistols released God Save The Queen. The year that the Queen celebrated her Silver Jubilee. The year that the Pistols’ boat party was raided by the police. The year of Never Mind The Bollocks, Here’s The Sex Pistols. The year that they became the most controversial band in the land.

An iBook is a unique way to download and read books. The Sex Pistols 1977: The Bollocks Diaries iBook is available through iTunes. Click here to order now…

Watch a video of the iBook via the Sex Pistols YouTube Channel

PISTOL MEMORABILIA GIRL – MYSTERY SOLVED…

I first saw the Pistols back in May 1976 – mainly because Don Hughes, a record dealer who’s now a mod author, told me that ‘they are the future’. So me and my brother Jay went to the 100 Club and, with about 30 others, had our teenage minds blown. Soon I became friends with Malcolm McLaren and Sophie Richmond, the Glitterbest secretary, then later got to know Glen, Paul, photographer Ray Stevenson, his brother Nils and the Pistols’ ‘sound wizard’ Dave Goodman. Which meant I was in an ideal position to get posters, flyers, stickers and t-shirts. And the gang were all generous, especially Sophie who liked the fact I’d spread the word about gigs and bring two or three people along (numbers counted in the early days…).

By 1979 the group were infamous, worldwide, and had split but I already knew the legend could only grow. After all, with the single exception of the Beatles, the Pistols were the most important rock’n'roll band ever. And I still had all this ‘stuff’, even though me and my girlfriend Liz Hall lived in a tiny room at 76 St Peters Street, Islington (Liz was actually a soul girl but she liked the Pistols too). I was also then learning photography from a couple of friends, Peter Moore and Martin Mann, both great photographers in their own right (the latter has won awards while Pete frequented SEX and the 100 Club). So one day Liz and I sneaked into the master bedroom next door and plastered the walls, bed and ceiling with posters. The idea was to re-create a Martin Brading shot of Jeannette Lee – which had her as a Beatles fan surrounded by Fab Four memorabilia – with Liz swamped by all my Pistols stuff. Pete helped with the lighting while I snapped away inexpertly using 35mm colour slides. Pete operated the camera himself to take a few black & white shots of Liz with guitar, which looked great though God knows where they are now…

I never made much dosh from them but a couple of the images have appeared on many record, tape and CD sleeves – some illegal – as well as dozens of gig posters and fanzine covers (and thousands of desktops). Jamie Reid used one in his book ‘Up They Rise’ and at his exhibitions and some have been featured on various websites (one is on page 92 of the book which comes with the new super-NMTB deluxe box set). Because they were often used uncredited, people wondered who took the pictures and who the girl actually was (some have even claimed the latter was Sophie). For quite a few collectors it became a real mystery.

By now those pictures have been seen by a few million people on several continents which is strange when I think how I nearly threw the slides away a couple of times. I’m also told that, if you count the clothes on the bed – some worn by Cookie on the US Tour and some by Steve in the ‘Swindle’ – it would cost 200K to re-create that room now. Except that it’s probably impossible: could anyone find any unworn Wemblex shirts? Or a handful of those Marx patches that China stopped making in 1988? Or so many mint Pistols’ posters?

When I look at those shots now I think about how ground-breaking that whole scene was…and how good Liz looked…and how bloody great the Pistols were.

Phil Strongman

Text: Copyright Phil Strongman © 2012 / Photo Copyright Phil Strongman © 1979 / 2008

http://www.clashmusic.com/features/rock-rules-steve-jones

Order the single via the Universal Shop

The song, first released as a single in October 1977, was inspired by the Pistols March 1977 trip to Berlin; where the band had decamped for a few days to help escape media glare after their infamous sacking from A&M Records (after just 7 days).

The Pistols visit to the city – and particularly the Berlin Wall which looked onto the still communist East Berlin – provided John Rotten Lydon with his inspiration for the lyrics:
“Berlin was a very different town then. It was like that scene in Apocalypse Now when they go up the river and they see the flares and the party going on, all the soldiers on acid… That’s what Berlin was like, with a chaotic war-zone wrapped around it. The Communists were looking in on this adventure playground. Quite mental.”

We celebrate the 35 years since the release of this single with a very special, limited edition picture disc. Each record is individually stickered and numbered making it an inevitably highly sought-after collector’s dream!

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Boat Trip 1977: Rare shots of the band from the infamous Jubilee Day Boat Trip as featured in the Bollocks Diary book packaged with NMTB Super-Deluxe Box Set.

NMTB Super-Deluxe Box Set: Some great images from the 35th Anniversary Never Mind The Bollocks Super-Deluxe Box Set.

The 4 disc super-deluxe NMTB box set, 2CD Deluxe Edition and limited edition 2LP are now on sale!

See this link for more info on the super-deluxe…

http://youtu.be/AXoba6T2fTc