Jamie Reid's designs for the English punk band the Sex Pistols cemented his status as one of the foremost progenitors of the DIY-style graphic design that came to define punk rock music in the 1970s, and remains seminal to this day.
Jamie Reid, the iconoclastic British artist who helped define the jagged, cut-and-paste punk aesthetic with his iconic Sex Pistols record covers, died on Tuesday, his gallerist John MarchantReid aligned himself with the radical anarchist underground since his school days at London’s Croydon School of Art, but it was his designs for the English punk band the Sex Pistols that cemented his status as one of the progenitors of the DIY-style graphic design that came to define punk rock music in the...
Created in 1977, the picture of the queen that Reid defaced was Peter Grugeon’s official Silver Jubilee portrait, which was taken to commemorate her 25th year on the throne. Since respect for the monarchy was obligatory at that time, the image — and the song — rocked the nation. The song, with its blatant criticism of what it called a “fascist regime” was banned by the BBC but still reached No. 2 on the official U.K. singles chart.
Reid was introduced to the Sex Pistols by their manager, Malcolm McLaren, who met Reid when both men attended Croydon in the late 1960s. During their time at school they were part of a counterculture student movement that organized an occupation of the college. “Everyone was looking for alternatives. It was a period of fantastic possibilities and change. People really believed that you could actually change things, and politically, things couldn’t have become more repressed since then,” Reid said.
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