I bought this single in 1984 and not until today did I discover that some rare copies have writing by the band inside the sleeve when they were apparently bored at the Creation Records office, and I opened up mine to find this note from William of the band 😃
The Sex Pistols signed a £40,000 EMI contract in October 1976 but were dropped three months later after a profane TV interview and Heathrow airport incidents. The band kept their advance and blasted the label in their song "E.M.I."
Regarding my previous post about the acquisition of Greaves Sports by Fraser's Group, how do we know that a young Diego Maradona paid them a visit? Here he is in his Central Hotel room in 1979, packing his gear. And on the bed behind him? A couple of familiar looking poly bags.
A pretty damning investigation by @thetimes has just dropped about Rupert Lowe’s @RestoreBritain.
According to the investigation:
• Individuals with links to neo-fascist and white nationalist movements obtained roles within local Restore Britain branches.
• Some had histories of racist or extremist online posts, including praise for Hitler and advocacy of ethnic nationalism.
• The leader of the “Remigration Now” movement is reported to have encouraged supporters to join Restore Britain.
This is what happens when extremism is normalised and allowed to enter the mainstream unchecked.
It’s shameful that this is happening in a country that lost 450,000 brave lives fighting fascism.
The good people of Britain have to come together once again and eliminate this way of thinking.
Perhaps we as a society could take a moment to consider the President of the United States was forced by a Court yesterday to pay $6 million in damages to a woman he raped and the media coverage has been close to zero.
@MickPuck Mac Allister's forefather Charles McAllister, a Protestant who converted to Catholicism, had moved to Donabate from the Scottish town of Tarbert, Kintyre in the 18th century. So he has Scottish descent.
Argentina's first football league was established by a Scotsman in the late 19th century.
Argentina has longstanding and deep ancestral ties with Scotland, dating back to the days when Scottish merchant ships regularly docked in Argentinian ports.
John Brown shipyards in Clydebank built Argentinian navy ships in the 1930s, thus helping to keep thousands of Scottish workers in work.
One of Diego Maradona's favourite football players growing up was Celtic's Jimmy Johnstone.
The Belgrano was sailing away from Las Malvinas when Thatcher ordered it to be sunk with the loss of 323 lives in 1982. Thatcher hated the Scots.
Vamos Argentina!
Diego Maradona to an English journalist:
"I’ll remind them that England won a World Cup final with a goal that wasn’t a goal, a goal the whole world saw wasn’t valid, and nobody said anything.
"So you can't judge me in any way."