The only thing I didn't like about this was the label on the record. In Australia the Sex Pistols came out on Wizard records which had the most awful downright hippy label ever. What on earth were they doing on that label. It was too hard to look out. Because in 77 the whole package mattered! And this was a great cover with a magnificent record inside. This would have ripped a hole in the radio if any major station had played it as anything other than a novelty record. This is the reason that independent stations like RRR and PBS and 3CR started getting really popular. It was the only place to hear the new stuff from New York and London. Not that I was ever a big radio person. I like to soundtrack my own life.
This was the final track on the Never Mind The Bollocks album. I played it to death. It was fantastic. What was all this rubbish about amateur musicians. This was massive on all levels. The guitars, thumping bass and drums and Johnny Rotten's sneer. Far removed from the fast tinny records popping up from the punk movement. Really one could argue that came before punk. Some do.
Despite lack of commercial airplay I was still able to get a Sex Pistols poster magazine from the newsagent. So I had this huge photo of Johnny Rotten on my bedroom wall. Typically it was a rubbish photo. Luckily my girlfriend Leonie went to visit her sister in Sydney and brought me back a cool poster. She also told wondrous tales of their cool record shops. I had to get up there as soon as possible.
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