Sex Pistols - Fuck Forever (1986)
No one shaped the look of punk more than Jamie Reid. His ransom-note lettering and defaced portraits of the Queen made the Sex Pistols' graphics as notorious as their music, and "God Save the Queen" was kept off the top of the charts in Jubilee week 1977, so the story goes, by something other than the record-buying public. The band lasted barely two and a half years and released one studio album, Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols, yet their influence on music, fashion and design has never faded. Reid's work is now held by museums including the Victoria and Albert Museum.
This poster was produced for Reid's 1986 exhibition at the Hamilton Gallery and given out to guests on the VIP list, so probably no more than 100 to 150 were ever in circulation. Reid took the image from Picturegoer magazine; the woman is an actress named Margaret Clewes. Folded as issued, it is one of the scarcest pieces of his later work.
- Year: 1986
- Nationality: United Kingdom
- Condition: Folded-as-issued
- Type: Original One Sheet
- Size: 26 x 39 inches
- Product Code: P2072
