
Lot Closed
October 21, 01:26 PM GMT
Estimate
700 - 900 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Jamie Reid
Sex Pistols press kit, c. May 1977
booklet (300 x 210mm.), 12 pages
The contents consist of cuttings concerning the Pistols and their troublesome contracts with EMI, A & M and the successful arrangement eventually reached with Virgin. The fourth press kit to be produced by Glitterbest.
This and other similar press kits (see lot nos. 13, 24 and 27) were designed by Jamie Reid and compiled by him with Sophie Richmond who was Malcolm McLaren's secretary and oversaw the administrative and financial side of the Pistols. She was in a relationship with Jamie Reid through much of the 1970s.
Exhibited: Hospital, London 2004; Urbis, Manchester 2005
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