Jamie Reid’s artwork, part of the Stolper-Wilson Collection of Sex Pistols memorabilia, at Sotheby’s in London on October 21, 2022. Photo: Daniel Leal / AFP via Getty Images.
In the ’70s, Reid was roped in by McLaren to work on a “project” that turned out to be the Sex Pistols—a band McLaren had formed by recruiting a bunch of kids that hung out at his clothing boutique on King’s Road. Over the Pistols’s brief existence, Reid would create for the band instantly iconic images including the group’s
Some of these album covers, in fact, were so controversial that a few shops opted to sell the records in blank sleeves.
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