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FORGOTTEN HISTORY: 4 | History Defined

Blondie retain New York cool four decades after Australia fell in love

"Debbie's style all comes from her and the band's style."

Newcastle Herald

“People think that Spunk is a lot better than Never Mind The Bollocks, which is very gratifying”: Producer Dave Goodman reveals how he recorded the 'lost' Sex Pistols album, and how it kick-started the punk revolution

Classic interview reveals how his recordings became what some believe is the true Sex Pistols debut album

MusicRadar

"Oi, Freddie! Have you succeeded in bringing ballet to the masses yet?": When Queen frontman Freddie Mercury met Sex Pistols bassist 'Simon Ferocious'

"It upset me when the Sex Pistols exploded" recalls Brian May, who was rather more taken with punk than Freddie Mercury

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“It should be illegal to be in a band, and only those willing to be arrested and locked up should try and pursue music”: Bill Nelson was only partly joking with his pre-punk manifesto

From psychedelic troubadour to art rocker, the Be-Bop Deluxe leader has always been about crossing musical boundaries and encouraging others to do the same

Louder

Jamie Reid obituary

Artist whose unmistakable record sleeve designs contributed to the tumultuous impact of the Sex Pistols in the 1970s

The Guardian - UK

Jamie Reid’s Sex Pistols artwork was a glorious assault on authority

Taking dada and adding a snotty British energy, the late artist gave punk its sharp edges and revolutionary force – and by attacking Putin, carried it into the present

The Guardian - UK

Jamie Reid obituary: the Sex Pistols collaborator who defined the punk aesthetic

The British artist and designer blazed a trail with his political, contemporary and confrontational work

Evening Standard

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Jamie Reid, artist of Sex Pistols record covers, dies aged 76

Artist and graphic designer’s cut-up work defined the iconoclastic energy of the punk era

The Guardian - UK

‘I won’t let the bastards grind me down’: John Lydon on grief, feuds and being an unlikely optimist

Covid, court, bereavement: although the PiL man’s new album could not have been made against a worse backdrop, his glass of non-alcoholic cider remains half full

The Guardian - UK

Thomas Brodie-Sangster references Love Actually in sweet engagement announcement with Talulah Riley

The couple first met while starring on the FX miniseries, ‘Pistols’

The Independent UK

“Jimmy Page and Jim Sullivan were getting a lot of work, but I was always getting plenty of calls – and that increased after I did the Jack Bruce sessions”: The confessions of session pro Chris Spedding

The British session ace on being asked to audition for the Rolling Stones, producing the Sex Pistols’ early demos and recording Robert Gordon’s final album

Guitar World

Peter Silverton obituary

Other lives: Music journalist who became a national newspaper executive

The Guardian - UK

20 things you could do in 1970s Manchester you can't do anymore

Manchester has become a very different place since the 'decade that fashion forgot'

Manchester Evening News

God Save the Punks: London braces for Iggy Pop’s new festival Dog Day Afternoon

The new one-dayer at Crystal Palace Park pays homage to the spirit and legacy of punk

Evening Standard

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Sex Pistols turned down Olympics performance because organisers wanted to censor songs

The Sex Pistols turned down an invitation to perform at the Olympics’ opening ceremony because the organisers wanted to censor one of their most famous songs, John Lydon has revealed.

Louder

The world nearly got a supergroup featuring members of the Sex Pistols, Blondie and the Bay City Rollers

Blondie’s drummer, the ex-Sex Pistols bassist, the Bay City Rollers’ guitarist and Paul Weller nearly made up punk’s weirdest supergroup

MusicRadar

Mick Hucknall on the 10 songs that changed his life: “The Beatles changed the way music sounded, but the Stones were the world’s greatest rock band”

“I know my musical history,” says The Simply Red frontman, as he discusses new album, Time, and his lost afternoon with Keith Richards

Daily Mirror

Glen Matlock updates Sex Pistols' 'God Save The Queen' for King's Coronation

The rocker has updated the lyrics to feature King Charles III, and is playing a gig on Saturday for people who are 'fed up with the Coronation'

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Gavin Rossdale: 8 songs that changed my life

Bush's frontman looks back upon the songs which soundtracked his teenage years in North London

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"New York in the '80s was lawless and f**ked-up": How heroin, hardcore and a headless corpse inspired Unsane's insane early adventures in Gotham

Unsane vocalist/guitarist Chris Spencer revisits the NYC noise rock band's formative years ahead of their upcoming Early Cuts European tour

Daily Record

Sex Pistols frontman slams Prince Harry and Meghan telling them to f*** off

John Lydon launched the scathing attack on the Duke and Duchess of Sussex

The Independent UK

John Lydon lashes out at Meghan and Harry: ‘Shut up’

‘They’re very, very spiteful to families and friends,’ the Sex Pistols frontman said

The Independent UK

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle told to ‘f*** off and shut up’ by Sex Pistols’ John Lydon

‘They’re very, very spiteful to families and friends,’ the Sex Pistols frontman said

Daily Mirror

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle told to 'f**k off and shut up' by neighbour John Lydon

Former Sex Pistols star John Lydon has taken aim at his Californian neighbours Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, as he said the couple need to 'shut up and go away'

The Guardian - UK

Sid Vicious bleeding from a knife wound, on a bus with Paul Dacre – Bob Gruen’s best photograph

‘Sid’s reading Mad magazine beside his cowboy hippy bodyguard. He was drinking so much he didn’t even think about the three-inch cut in his arm’

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