Sex Icons The Sex Pistols Receive Rhino Remastering
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Forty-four years after its initial release, the groundbreaking album "Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols" has been reissued by Rhino High Fidelity. This iconic record, a defining force in punk and a cultural lightning rod, continues to resonate nearly five decades later.
The Sex Pistols recorded their debut album at Wessex Sound in London over a six-month period in 1977. Some sessions for the album took place while the band was recording their News of the World album at the same facility. The album contains songs like "Anarchy in the U.K.", "God Save the Queen", "Pretty Vacant", and "Holidays in the Sun".
Despite being banned by major retailers and causing widespread controversy, the album debuted at #1 on the U.K. charts. Producer Chris Thomas, who had previously worked with bands like the Beatles, Procol Harum, Pink Floyd, and Roxy Music, was impressed by this approach.
The reissued album features new liner notes by Chris Thomas, who worked on the original recordings before Glen Matlock was replaced by Sid Vicious. The album was cut from the original master tapes by Kevin Gray and pressed on 180-gram black vinyl at Optimal in Germany.
Nearly five thousand individually numbered copies of the reissued album are available exclusively at Rhino.com and select Warner Music Group stores internationally. "Never Mind the Bollocks" was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame and has sold over a million copies in the U.S. alone.
The album was released at the end of October 1977. It ranks high among the greatest albums of all time in lists by Rolling Stone, NME, and Time. Steve Jones, the guitarist for the Sex Pistols, mirrored his guitar an octave lower for the bass part, an unexpected move that improved the sound significantly.
Interestingly, the band found their recording approach almost by accident during an early session. The Sex Pistols broke up onstage at Winterland in San Francisco on January 14, 1978, less than three months after the album came out.
Forty-four years later, the legacy of "Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols" continues to inspire and provoke, a testament to its enduring influence on music and culture.
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