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The single's picture sleeve, featuring a defaced image of Queen Elizabeth II, was designed by Jamie Reid and in 2001 was ranked No. 1 in a list of the 100 greatest record covers of all time by Q magazine. [53] A photograph of the image is held by the National Portrait Gallery, London. [54] Cover versions [ edit ] Motörhead version [ edit ] "God Save the Queen" Robb, Simon (4 November 2016). "BBC just trolled a conservative MP brilliantly with God Save the Queen". Metro . Retrieved 4 November 2016.
The cover art gives further reference to the Sex Pistols by using the same cut-out words to form the title as the Sex Pistols' single cover. Billy Idol performed this song with Generation Sex at Glastonbury 2023 Generation Sex - God Save the Queen (Glastonbury 2023) on YouTube}} Eleven-time Paralympic gold medal winner Dame Tanni-Grey Thompson leads a sporting quartet that features Sir Andy Murray, Sir Mo Farrah and Northern Irish pentathlon gold medal winner, Lady Mary Peters.Sex Pistols announce plans to re-release 'God Save The Queen' ". New Musical Express. 16 April 2012 . Retrieved 16 April 2012. Queen Elizabeth II ('God Save the Queen') - National Portrait Gallery". Npg.org.uk . Retrieved 24 December 2021. Upon its release, the song was banned from both the BBC and radio stations regulated by the Independent Broadcasting Authority with Radio 2 controller Charles McLelland saying the song was "in gross bad taste". [13] Additionally, the major retailers Boots, WHSmith, and Woolworths all declined to sell the record. [14] Nevertheless, it peaked at No. 2 (below Rod Stewart's " I Don't Want to Talk About It" released as a double A-side budget single along with " The First Cut Is the Deepest") on the official UK Singles Chart used by the BBC; it did so during the week of the Silver Jubilee's official observation. [4] [15] [16] On the singles chart displayed in branches of WH Smith, the single's position at No. 2 was represented by a blank line. [17] I did not see myself as a fashion designer, but as someone who wished to confront the rotten status quo through the way I dressed and dressed others.”
Dead Mentors Talk: The pop world of Ballard and Burroughs -". 3:AM Magazine. 14 January 2014 . Retrieved 12 February 2020.Sex Pistols to re-release God Save the Queen ahead of Jubilee". BBC News. BBC News. 3 May 2022 . Retrieved 14 November 2022. Olympics (28 July 2012). The Complete London 2012 Opening Ceremony London 2012 Olympic Games (Video). Olympics. Event occurs at 11m18s. Sex Pistols guitarist Steve Jones: 'The monarchy means nothing to me' ". Independent.co.uk. 5 June 2022.
Leigh, Spencer (20 February 1998). "Music: Charting the number ones that somehow got away". The Independent . Retrieved 5 August 2010. The children’s book sidesteps her most controversial creation, which features prominently in the new Disney series dramatising punk’s protagonists, Pistol. Agreeing with the apparent anti- Windsor message, American postmodern author William S. Burroughs sent a congratulatory letter to the Sex Pistols following the release of the song. [10]Her provocative designs included the T-shirt which appropriated artist Jamie Reid’s cover image for The Sex Pistols’ 1977 anthem God Save The Queen, released to puncture the Silver Jubilee celebrations.