The Sex Pistols' 1977 Jubilee pageant

The Queen’s 1977 Jubilee was an opportunity for the Sex Pistols to quite literally rock the establishment’s boat. For the occasion their record label, Virgin, and its boss Richard Branson, hired a boat on the Thames and had the Pistols play “God Save The Queen” in a parody of the Monarch’s river pageant, much like the one we witnessed in June.

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