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Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols (often shortened to Never Mind the Bollocks) is the only studio album by English punk rock band the Sex Pistols, released on 28 October 1977 through Virgin Records in the UK and on 11 November 1977 through Warner Bros. Records in the US. As a result of the Sex Pistols' volatile internal ...
Their sole studio album Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols (1977) was a UK number one and is regarded as seminal in the development of punk rock. In January 1978, at the final gig of a difficult and media-hyped tour of the US, Rotten announced the band's break-up live on stage.
Bollocks (/ ˈ b ɒ l ə k s /) is a word of Middle English origin meaning "testicles".The word is often used in British English and Irish English in a multitude of negative ways; it most commonly appears as a noun meaning "rubbish" or "nonsense", an expletive following a minor accident or misfortune, or an adjective to describe something that is of poor quality or useless.
The juxtaposition of all those different psychic things in your head and all the confusion, the anger, the frustration, you have to capture in those words." [11] In the BBC-screened documentary series Classic Albums (2002) featuring The Sex Pistols' "Never Mind The Bollocks" album, Lydon further said: "That song was hated and loathed. It's not ...
Sex Pistols – Never Mind the Bollocks, Here’s the Sex Pistols. All mouth and no trousers: ‘Never Mind the Bollocks, Here’s the Sex Pistols’ (Jamie Reid/Sex Pistols) ... By which they ...
The twin pulley blocks at the top of a ship's mast are also known as bollocks, and in the 18th century priests' sermons were colloquially referred to as bollocks; it was by claiming this last usage that the Sex Pistols prevented their album Never Mind the Bollocks from being banned under British obscenity laws. [40]
"Pretty Vacant" is a song by the English punk rock band the Sex Pistols. It was released on 1 July 1977 as the band's third single and was later featured on their only album, Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols, released during that same year.
On 28 October 1977, their only album, Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols was released and, due in part to notoriety (particularly of the song "God Save the Queen"), and in spite of sales bans at major retailers, the album debuted at number one on the UK Album Charts and went gold on 17 November. It remained a best-seller for nearly ...