Ben Beaumont-Thomas “Jamie Reid, artist of Sex Pistols record covers, dies aged 76” https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/aug/09/jamie-reid-artist-of-sex-pistols-record-covers-dies-aged-76
Steven McIntosh*1 & Ian Youngs*2 “Jamie Reid: Punk artist behind Sex Pistols record covers dies at 76” https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-66450958
Scottie Andrew "Jamie Reid, the anarchist artist who designed iconic Sex Pistols covers, dies at 76" https://edition.cnn.com/2023/08/09/style/jamie-reid-sex-pistols-artist-death-cec/index.html
セックス・ピストルズ*3のレコード・ジャケットのアート・ワークで知られるグラフィック・デザイナー、ジェイミー・リード*4が逝去。享年76歳。
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Born in London in 1947, Reid enrolled at Wimbledon Art School aged 16, later moving to Croydon Art School where he met Sex Pistols’ future manager Malcolm McLaren.Reid’s best known work was for the covers of a series of Sex Pistols releases: the pink and yellow text of their only album Never Mind the Bollocks, Here’s the Sex Pistols; God Save the Queen, the hit single banned by the BBC featuring a Cecil Beaton photo portrait of Queen Elizabeth II defaced by Reid; the smashed empty picture frame for Pretty Vacant; and a doctored comic strip for Holidays in the Sun.
His poster for the single Anarchy in the UK, featuring a torn union jack, was another image that defined the iconoclasm of the punk era. He also created numerous alternative designs for singles – one for God Save the Queen features a safety pin through the Queen’s lip plus swastikas for eyes, while an alternative French-market cover for Pretty Vacant featured buses showing the destinations Nowhere and Boredom. Reid also worked on imagery for the Sex Pistols film The Great Rock’n’Roll Swindle.
His lettering mimicked the cut-and-paste style of an anonymised ransom note, a style he first developed with the countercultural publication Suburban Press, which he began in 1970 alongside Jeremy Brook and Nigel Edwards. He was inspired by the alternative politics of the late 1960s, and did graphic design for the 1974 book Leaving the 20th Century: The Incomplete Work of the Situationist International, which compiled translated texts by French situationist writers.
Reid explained his ethos in 2015: “Our culture is geared towards enslavement – for people to perform pre-ordained functions, particularly in the workplace. I’ve always tried to encourage people to think about that and to do something about it.”
*1:See also https://sumita-m.hatenadiary.com/entry/2023/04/15/004249 https://sumita-m.hatenadiary.com/entry/2023/04/15/004249 https://sumita-m.hatenadiary.com/entry/2023/08/04/155758
*2:See also https://sumita-m.hatenadiary.com/entry/20180423/1524445627 https://sumita-m.hatenadiary.com/entry/2022/12/27/153043 https://sumita-m.hatenadiary.com/entry/2023/07/10/100927
*3:See also https://sumita-m.hatenadiary.com/entry/20100531/1275277851 https://sumita-m.hatenadiary.com/entry/20100617/1276783309 https://sumita-m.hatenadiary.com/entry/20111129/1322529452 https://sumita-m.hatenadiary.com/entry/20140926/1411747153 https://sumita-m.hatenadiary.com/entry/2021/02/15/022250 https://sumita-m.hatenadiary.com/entry/2022/04/05/101010
