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Jamie Reid | Sex Pistols press kit, c. May 1977

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October 21, 01:26 PM GMT

Estimate

700 - 900 GBP

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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.

Purchased from Joe Corre, c.1993

Exhibited: Hospital, London 2004; Urbis, Manchester 2005

No Future p. 33