Released two years before their incendiary debut album, Never Mind The Bollocks, Here’s The Sex Pistols, the punk legends’ 1976 debut single, “Anarchy In The UK,” released by EMI, mixed pop and politics to cause plenty of waves, not least because of Jamie Reid’s iconic ripped Union Jack poster which was used to promote it. It was during the promotion of the single that the infamous Today TV appearance took place, when Steve Jones, and not Johnny Rotten as many have since assumed, got into the row with presenter Bill Grundy and put punk on the front page, lighting the touchpaper for a media backlash.
