Jamie Reid | Handbill for the 100 Club, 29 June and 6 July 1976

Jamie Reid

Handbill for the 100 Club, 29 June and 6 July 1976

(295 x 208mm.), some creasing

Incorporating a repeated image of Johnny Rotten, this handbill was later reproduced on the covers of the Glitterbest press kits (see lots 8, 13 and 27). The repetition of the image was one aspect that can be recognised in Reid's work, and he may have had a hand in aspects of this design.

An early version of the Sex Pistols logo created by using cutout lettering. This strategy, communicating a sense of subversion had been used by Reid since the early 1970s at the Suburban Press – Letraset being too expensive.