Unplayed SEX PISTOLS God Save The Queen VIRGIN 1st 1977 UK Malc McLaren gift 2me
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CONDITION: New, unplayed and carefully-stored in our pet-free, smoke-free home.
SHIPPING: $10 first-class shipping includes insurance to any US address.
In Spring 1977 I did my final college semester in London (Syracuse University had a branch in a residential building in the Bayswater neighborhood) and I was checking out every punk & new wave band on the scene.
I was finishing up a journalism degree and decided to try to interview the Sex Pistols and freelance the story. I phoned Malcolm McLaren's office and claimed I wrote for Rolling Stone. It was a fib, but it got me in the door!
A few days later (April 3) I went to his office and interviewed Malcolm, Sid Vicious, Steve Jones, and Paul Cook. (Johnny Rotten didn't show, but I ran into him at the Roxy a few times and he always had plenty to say.) After a half-hour Q&A, McLaren gave me three copies of God Save The Queen (these are the remaining copies), two copies of the original EMI pressing of Anarchy In The UK (which I'm also selling on Ebay), and two tickets to the Screen On The Green gig that night which I think was Sid's first gig with the band.
It was a fun show - opening act was The Slits - and my college buddy Dave & I were tickled to be there, but everyone was seated so it was tough for the bands to interact from an elevated stage with an audience that couldn't pogo!
As for my interview, I ended up using it as part of my final term paper on the British punk scene - and got an "A."
As for fibbing to Malc? Hey, I managed to prank the media master prankster!
If only I'd thought of it at the time, I would have had them all autograph the records! But asking for autographs from the Sex Pistols? It would have seemed totally non-punk. Plus, if I'd asked Sid - who acted surly and indifferent and clearly wanted to be somewhere else - he might have broken them in half for a laugh.
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