Post by Lydia Purple on Dec 11, 2013 13:15:54 GMT -8
The Sex Pistols featured in the British Chart for the first time when their first single "Anarchy in the U.K." entered the chart on its way to its' peak of 38.
Originally issued in a plain black sleeve, the single was the only Sex Pistols recording released by EMI, and reached no.38 on the UK Singles Chart before EMI dropped the group on January 6 1977, a month after the Bill Grundy incident, in which members of the band used profanity during a live television broadcast.
Originally issued in a plain black sleeve, the single was the only Sex Pistols recording released by EMI, and reached no.38 on the UK Singles Chart before EMI dropped the group on January 6 1977, a month after the Bill Grundy incident, in which members of the band used profanity during a live television broadcast.
In the documentary The Filth and the Fury, John Lydon described the composition of the song's opening lyrics, explaining that the best rhyme he could devise for the first line, "I am an Antichrist", was the second line, "I am an anarchist".
The lyrics endorse a particularly sensational, violent concept of anarchy that reflected the pervasive sense of embittered anger, confusion, restlessness, economic frustration and social alienation which was being felt by a generation of disenfranchised youth amidst the repression and squalor of British life in the 1970s. Sex Pistols manager Malcolm McLaren considered the song "a call to arms to the kids who believe that rock and roll was taken away from them. It's a statement of self rule, of ultimate independence." In 2007, the surviving members (not including original Pistols' bassist Glen Matlock) re-recorded "Anarchy in the U.K." for the video game Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock because the multi-track master could not be found. The "Guitar Hero" version also appears in the film adaption of the A-Team.
"Anarchy in the U.K." is no.56 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.
(Source: Wikipedia)