The album was eventually completed and released by a young Richard Branson's fledgling Virgin Records, which he later sold to EMI, creating the irony of EMI Records owning and distributing (milking for all it's worth) the very song denigrating them. Brilliant.
Absolutely 💯 agree with you. I got to see their world tour in the nineties with the original line up Glen Matlock and Steve Jones were on fire 🔥💥💥 and that little narcissistic troll John Lyndon was pretty bloody good too 😊
EMI signed the Pistols then dropped them after a few months because their image was damaging the label's reputation. They then signed at A&M and stayed a very short time there. Some early copies of 'Anarchy' on EMI are worth a small fortune and Copies of 'God Save The Queen' on A&M even more so
This was actually the first song I ever heard from this album. I loved it, but then I heard Anarchy and that sent me out to buy the record. Their relationships with record companies is a great story!
yes JP as others have said you need to do the song 'Submission' to complete the LP as it was only omitted from the initial pressing. I thought I had bought the LP shortly after release but obviously not as my copy does include 'Submission'.
Good to see the Kikagaku Moyo album behind you. When you did a First Listen to a track from it a couple of years ago, I was so impressed I bought the album!
i'm sure there's a version of the track - maybe a live recording - that has Rotten ending it with a stinging, prolonged 'EMIIIIIIIIIIYA' - which sounds perfect. The remastered versions dont feature it. anyone know?
Great Album good musicians(Glen Matlock) I will be honest The Clash will always be my favourite band but love this album I also liked the stranglers 999 and the buzzcocks
The greatest put-down of a label ever. And it's a good thing that it was EMI as well. What if it'd been Atlantic Records? Or Universal Music Group? Not nearly short and catchy enough!
He's probably going by the wiki or some listing of the original pressing, which wouldn't include Submission, as it was initially a 1-sided single that was added to later pressings.
@@artrock101 Yeah, they took a long time to make their mind up about the tracklisting which was why that happened and also why the earliest copies had a blank rear sleeve.
Great track to close this amazing album. I remember smuggling my copy into my home! A young Richard Branson signed them to Virgin Records after EMI, then A&M quickly dropped them when they couldn't handle the negative publicity from the good old main stream media. Cheers.
Imagine that punk didn't exist. Imagine that you had no idea what the Sex Pistols looked like. Imagine they had a different generic rock band name. Imagine it was 1977 and a DJ played this on the radio. I defy anyone who likes rock music not to prick up their ears and say 'Wow! that was a blast!'
A&M signed the Pistols after being sacked by EMI in Jan 77. A&M signed the Pistols on March 10 77 and sacked them on March 17th 77, 25,000 copies of God Save The Queen were pressed and most were recovered and incinerated but a few remain in circulation and are the holy grail of 7" singles, one recently sold at Omega Auctions in the UK for £16,500! Real ones have 2 major things to look for- the serrated edge outside the label and the B side 'No Feeling' has an error on the run out groove scratching, it has AMS 7284 B1 scratched, the 7284 is badly done so 7284 is rescratched above it, no repress or fake has these 2 things.
EMI is a record label. 😉I wonder if people don't automatically equate it with the record label because now people don't really buy CDs or records - when you do you see names of record labels all the time so you are more aware of it. All the albums I listened to a lot as a kid, I can visualize that label from seeing it so many times on a peice of physical media. So, "LONG LIVE PHYSICAL MEDIA!"
i just realized that steve jones invented a rock music-genre of his own by his use of power chords. i never have heard anything similar. (i always liked E.M.I., the song. and yes, all members are musically outstanding: jones; rotten, the voice and the text; cook, i only yet see how important he is; glen matlock was a brilliant bass player, of course.)
Electrical and Musical Industries. For somecreason they signed the dreadful talentkess Sex Pistols snd then ditched the after the released Anarchy in the UK. I think the song EMI was penned in 10 minutes and is a majestic example of the pistol's ample talent. Good riddance
