The Sex Pistols: The Stolper-Wilson Collection

The Sex Pistols: The Stolper-Wilson Collection

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Malcolm McLaren | Press release for the Sex Pistols, c. April 1976

Lot Closed

October 21, 01:01 PM GMT

Estimate

600 - 800 GBP

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Malcolm McLaren

Press release for the Sex Pistols


mimeograph typescript, one page, folio (300 x 210mm.), c. April 1976


"We hate everything."


The text penned by McLaren gives a potted history of the band up to the gig at the El Paradise strip club (4 April 1976) and ends: ‘The Sex Pistols spontaneity and honesty threatens all the highly packaged pop of the past’. The earliest known press release for the Sex Pistols by McLaren, and one of only a very few to have survived.

Sotheby’s Olympia, 14 June 2002, lot 221 

Exhibited: Hospital, London 2004; Urbis, Manchester 2005

No Future, p.25