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The Sex Pistols have announced that the band will release a very special version of Pretty Vacant as a limited edition 7” single on April 20th for Record Store Day.

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 [...]

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The Day The Country Died – A History Of Anarcho Punk 1980 -1984 by Ian Glasper & published by Cherry Red Books is Glasper’s second book in a trilogy of books exploring the landscape of a so-called “second wave” of punk rock that took hold in throughout the UK in the early 1980s.
The Day [...]

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35 years on from its original release The Sex Pistols classic single  ‘Holidays in the Sun’ has finally received a promo video. The video – newly edited by longtime Sex Pistols collaborator Julien Temple – has been compiled from previously unreleased footage especially for use on the limited edition super deluxe box set ‘Never Mind [...]

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The second wave of punk rock was much grittier, hardcore, thrash and from the working class streets of the UK, not fashion shops and art colleges. From 1980 to 1984 the UK was full of punk rock groups.  They dressed almost identically with outrageous and dirty spiked hair, leather bike jacket, tight ripped drainpipe jeans [...]

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By 1979 The Sex Pistols had split, Sid Vicious was dead and the punk euphoria of 1976/77 had dissipated into mainstream fashion and commercial pop-driven ‘New Wave’.  A two-headed beast rose from the ashes.  On the one hand, what became known as ‘post-punk’ included musicians formerly associated with the likes of the Sex Pistols & [...]

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