Jamie Reid | Sex Pistols press kit, January 1977

Jamie Reid

Sex Pistols press kit produced for EMI, January 1977

(300 x 210mm.), 8 pages

The cover reproduces the Sex Pistols logo created by Reid and the content features press reports on the band including an NME interview with McLaren and Caroline Coon’s interview with Rotten for Melody Maker. It was the third press kit to be issued, produced by Glitterbest for EMI.

This and other similar press kits (see lot nos. 8, 13 and 27) were designed by Jamie Reid and compiled by him with Sophie Richmond who was Malcolm McLaren's secretary and oversaw the administrative and financial side of the Pistols. She was in a relationship with Jamie Reid through much of the 1970s.