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Jamie Reid the artist who designed covers for Sex Pistols’ albums dies

Reid, 76, helped curate the aesthetic of the punk rock era with his ransom note style.

The Independent 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

“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

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“Sir, are you married?”: the unlikely connection between Queen’s Brian May and punk band X-Ray Spex

Queen guitarist Brian May crossed paths with a punk icon years before either was famous

Louder

"Ultimately, they weren’t Rick Wakeman" - Clem Burke and Glen Matlock on the outsider appeal of the original punk bands

Ahead of their gig with Iggy Pop at the Dog Day Afternoon festival in London, Blondie’s Clem Burke and former Sex Pistol Glen Matlock talk punk, punk and more punk

Louder

OPINION - Enjoy U2 and Dog Day’s punks while you can, pop culture is on its way out

This September, U2 start their long-awaited residency at the MSG Sphere in Las Vegas, a fully immersive visual and sonic experience that will — yet again — move the dial on live performance. More than a decade ago they reinvented the stadium experience with their 360 tour, while this new…

Evening Standard

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.

The Independent UK

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Guy Pratt: “I always thought that the second I walked out the studio, the producer would be on the phone to Pino Palladino”

The session stalwart discusses his career as a sideman, gigging with Pink Floyd, and chatting to Noel Gallagher and Suzi Quatro for his music podcast, The Rockonteurs

Guitar World

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

Louder

“We don't want people to know what we think”: Why Joy Division's Unknown Pleasures may be the most important record to emerge from the UK punk scene

Released on June 15, 1979, Joy Division's bleak, beautiful masterpiece has lost none of its power or stark dread

Louder

Never mind the racket. I was behind the bar for one of the first Sex Pistols gigs

Brief letters: Johnny Rotten luck | Tipping in Italy | Satanic autocorrect | Snollygosters everywhere | Woke in Woking

The Guardian - UK

Anarchy in High Wycombe! The real story of the Sex Pistols’ earliest gigs

The punk band are famous for culture-changing gigs in Manchester and London, but what about ones in Keighley and Dunstable? Attendees at their first UK tour remember the protests, raw power – and cider-drinking hippies

The Guardian - UK

Malcolm McLaren’s Duck Rock at 40: the album that foretold today’s anything-goes pop

The 1983 LP introduced a generation to hip-hop and mashed up style – but by not crediting Black musicians, it was also cultural appropriation. Producer Trevor Horn recalls its creation

The Guardian - UK

Noel Gallagher dismisses The 1975's Matty Healy as a "slack-jawed f***wit” for calling for an Oasis reunion, advises him to split up his own "sh*t" band instead

Having learned of Matty Healy's comments on a potential Oasis reunion, Noel Gallagher offered some advice of his own to The 1975's frontman

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You can now listen to Motorhead's cover of Metallica classic Enter Sandman - complete with a "horrifying" animated video

Motörhead's cover of Metallica's Enter Sandman comes from from a digital EP that includes songs by Hawkwind, Bob Seger and the Sex Pistols

Evening Standard

London street artist Pegasus paints Coronation tribute in Highbury and Islington

The artist drew on the Sex Pistols, Basquiat and Eighties and Nineties pop art for inspiration

Louder

Keith Richards’ snarling reaction to being told that the Sex Pistols said he should retire

When Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards found out the Sex Pistols had been calling for the band to retire and "get out of the way", his reaction was like "a volcano erupting"

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

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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

Louder

The Amish Sex Pistols: the weirdest, unlikeliest, most glorious TV sketch ever

The Sex Pistols' appearance on The Today Show in 1976 brought them nationwide notoriety: 37 years later the footage got a mind-boggling Amish makeover

Louder

The story of The Stranglers' controversial No More Heroes album: "We got away with murder"

Hugh Cornwell tells the story of the Stranglers' summer-of-punk-classic second album No More Heroes: "We definitely couldn’t get away with that now"

The Independent UK

TWICE’s Chaeyoung apologies for wearing a t-shirt with a swastika on it

The singer had posted a photo on Instagram wearing a t-shirt where the symbol could be seen

FourFourTwo

'Why didn't you just belt it?' How Gareth Southgate's Euro 96 miss helped him as England manager

Gareth Southgate once feared the Euro 96 penalty would overshadow everything – before he realised he could use it to his advantage

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