New version of Never Mind The Bollocks…Here’s The Sex Pistols announced on 40th anniversary

A scaled back version of the 2012 super-deluxe, now-out-of-print version of the Sex Pistols‘ Never Mind The Bollocks… album will be released on October 27th to mark its 40th anniversary.

This new cut of the classic debut LP contains 3CDs which include outtakes and live material recorded in 1977, while a DVD has footage of the infamous boat party held on the River Thames. A 48-page hardback book will compliment all this with narrative from music journalist Pat Gilbert and rare photos from Bob Gruen, Barry Plummer, John Tiberi and Dave Wainwright.

“As well as the legendary singles, of which ‘Pretty Vacant‘ would come to the party in July, ‘Never Mind The Bollocks…Here’s The Sex Pistols‘ contains tracks which paid attention to some of the most controversial topics of the time, and which demonstrated John Lydon’s sharp eye for political and social commentary,” we said in our 2012 feature.

“‘Bodies‘ deals with illegal abortion, laden with expletives and graphically telling the story of scandal in a mental institution, while ‘E.M.I’ is a scathing attack on the record company which had dropped them at the beginning of 1977 whilst retaining a simple, sing-a-long quality that makes it one of the LP’s most memorable tracks.”