The Sex Pistols' jubilee boat trip – a classic account

To mark this weekend's jubilee celebrations, we visit Rock's Backpages – the world's leading archive of vintage music journalism – for this classic account of the Sex Pistols boat trip down the Thames on 7 June 1977 to herald the release of God Save the Queen. It first appeared in SoundsBefore the police came, it was a great party. Make that a capital G.Let's take all this sequentially: after an hour of waiting, the Queen Elizabeth left Charing Cross Pier at 6.30, and, after a moment's hesit...

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