SEX PISTOLS Art And Fashions Displayed In London Exhibition

October 9, 2004

Chris Heard of BBC News Online is reporting that the infamous art and fashions that surrounded the rise of influential punk group the SEX PISTOLS are displayed in an exhibition that opened on Thursday (Oct. 7).

Items of clothing and publicity posters that set out to shock the nation in the late 1970s are included alongside handwritten lyrics and concert flyers.

The best known pieces include graphic artist Jamie Reid's doctored portrait of the Queen with a safety pin through her mouth, and the now-iconic "Destroy" punk T-shirts designed by Vivienne Westwood.

There are also posters taken from the wall of PISTOLS bass player Sid Vicious when he lived at the Chelsea Hotel in New York with girlfriend Nancy Spungen.

One, showing the cover of the band's "Never Mind the Bollocks" album, has bloodstains said to be from the couple's use of heroin needles. Vicious was accused of murdering Spungen in the hotel room, and died of a drugs overdose before he could be tried.

The exhibition also contains several notorious pornographic T-shirt designs which led to police raids on Westwood and her partner Malcolm McLaren's boutique, Sex, in King's Road, Chelsea. Read more.

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