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Extremely rare complete Warner Bros. Records press kit for the Sex Pistols and their only studio album, Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols, which was released on October 28, 1977. The kit contains an assortment of hard-to-find rarities that include posters, photographs, a U.S. first vinyl pressing (variant 5), and other punk-related ephemera, which is as follows:
Color 33 x 24 Warner Bros. Records promotional poster for the Sex Pistols’ only studio album, Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols, which was released on October 28, 1977, featuring a large image of Johnny Rotten wearing sunglasses next to a band image, which is above green lyrics from the song ‘God Save the Queen’—“We're the flowers in the dustbin / We're the poison in your human machine / We're the future / Your future.” The lower left corner bears a 1977 Warner Bros. Records copyright.
Color 16 x 23.5 Warner Bros. Records promotional poster for Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols, designed as a comic strip-style timeline of the band’s career by cartoonist Mark Jay, aka ‘MJS,’ which contains an interesting drawing of Rotten near the bottom saying, ‘Ever get the feeling you’re being trapped?,’ words that echo his famous band-ending Winterland Ballroom sign-off on January 14, 1978, ‘Ever get the feeling you've been cheated?’
Original first U.S. pressing of Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols (BSK 3147), Winchester Pressing Variant No. 5, with matrix/runout numbers: “BSK-1 - 3147 WW1 –◄” and “BSK-2 - 3147 WW1 –◄.” The lower right corner of the album and the inner sleeve bear a punch hole, with a crease to the album’s upper left corner. Retains the original shrink-wrap cover.
Never-worn ‘reversed’ white t-shirt, size extra large, featuring a colorful tank-top design on the front bearing the Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols cover, and the back bears the album’s back cover design with track titles; the shirt, which is curiously printed inside-out (designs on the shirt’s interior, not exterior) and bears ‘trimmed’ sleeves, retains its original Mayo Spruce collar tag.
Also included: cloth color banner, 32 x 27.5, featuring side-by-side images of the front and back cover designs for the Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols album; unused blue-and-green “Sex Pistols” sticker, 8.5 x 2.25, with backing marked, “U.S. Tour starts July 31, New Live album July 30”; color 3˝ in diameter pinback button featuring the front cover design of Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols; and a tabloid-style folder, 8.75 x 11.5, containing six original glossy 8 x 10 and 10 x 8 Warner/Reprise publicity photos of the band and their members, with trivial curling to photo edges. In overall fine condition.
From the collection of Susie Davis, former keyboard player for Sheila E., who toured with legendary artists such as Prince, Mick Jagger, Billy Idol, Van Morrison, Sinead O'Connor, and many others. Davis’s father, Norman Davis, was the co-host of the pioneering punk radio show The Outcastes on KSAN-FM in San Francisco, America's first regularly scheduled punk rock radio show. For nearly two years, The Outcastes went live every Friday night from 2 to 4 a.m. (Saturday morning) and featured some of punk’s biggest early stars, including Devo, The Cramps, Roky Erickson, The Nuns, The Dead Boys, Iggy Pop, and the Sex Pistols. He interviewed Paul Cook and Steve Jones on January 13, 1978, a day before the band’s final concert at the Winterland. The interview was notorious for its airing of unedited expletives used by Cook and Jones, profanity that could have potentially cost the radio station its license.
