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This article is about the visual artist. For the Canadian poet, see Jamie Reid (Canadian poet).
The cover of the God Save the Queen single designed by Jamie Reid.
The cover of the God Save the Queen single designed by Jamie Reid.

Jamie Reid (born 1947), educated at John Ruskin Grammar School in Croydon, is a British artist and anarchist with connections to the Situationists. His work, featuring letters cut from newspaper headlines in the style of a ransom note came close to defining the image of punk rock, particularly in the UK. His best known works include the Sex Pistols album Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols and the singles "Anarchy in the UK", "God Save The Queen", "Pretty Vacant" and "Holidays in the Sun". Many times, the term art is used to refer to the visual arts. ... The poor poet A poet is a person who writes poetry. ... Jamie Reid (born April 10, 1941) is a Canadian poet. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Year 1947 (MCMXLVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1947 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... It has been suggested that Central Croydon be merged into this article or section. ... Anarchism is a generic term describing various political philosophies and social movements that advocate the elimination of hierarchy and imposed authority. ... The Situationist International (SI), an international political and artistic movement, originated in the Italian village of Cosio dArroscia on 28 July 1957 with the fusion of several extremely small artistic tendencies: the Lettrist International, the International movement for an imaginist Bauhaus, and the London Psychogeographical Association. ... In typography, the ransom note effect is the result of using too many different typefaces in a publication. ... Punk rock is an anti-establishment music movement beginning around 1976 (although precursors can be found several years earlier), exemplified and popularised by The Ramones, the Sex Pistols, The Clash and The Damned. ... The Sex Pistols were an iconic and highly influential English punk rock band, formed in London in 1975. ... Cover of US Release Never Mind the Bollocks, Heres the Sex Pistols is a 1977 album recorded by the seminal English punk rock band, Sex Pistols. ... Anarchy in the U.K. (B-side I Wanna Be Me) was the first single by the punk band the Sex Pistols released on November 26, 1976, and is thus frequently considered to be the first punk single (although The Ramones released Blitzkrieg Bop a year earlier). ... God Save the Queen (B-side Did You No Wrong), released on May 27, 1977 was the second single by the punk band the Sex Pistols. ... Pretty Vacant was the third single released by punk band the Sex Pistols. ... The Holidays in the Sun punk festivals are now known as Wasted Festivals Holidays in the Sun was the fourth single by punk band the Sex Pistols. ...


Reid produced a series of screen prints in 1997, the twentieth anniversary of the birth of Punk rock. Reid has also produced artwork for the world music fusion band Afro Celt Sound System. Jamie Reid created the ransom-note look used with the Sex Pistols graphics while he was designing Suburban Press, a radical political magazine he ran for five years. World music is, most generally, all the music in the world. ... The Afro Celt Sound System are a musical group which attempts to fuse modern dance rhythms (trip-hop, techno, etc. ...


For the last three years Reid has been exhibiting and publishing prints with the Aquarium Gallery. The Aquarium Gallery is a contemporary commercial art gallery in a Georgian building in Bloomsbury, London, run by Steve Lowe. ...


In May 2007 an event known as X Marks the Spot will take place in Shoreditch London to celebrate the life and work of Jamie Reid. Opening on Mayday with a festive spirit, this event will include several locations where his current work can be viewed as well as a comprehensive flyposting of the area with over 35 years worth of work. Running in parallel with this will be an exhibition at the aquarium's L-13 gallery on Farringdon Rd which will show a selection of important pieces from Reids own collection. This will be the first time that any of these pieces will be openly offered for sale.


Further reading

The cover of the God Save the Queen single designed by Jamie Reid. ...

External links

 v • d • e Sex Pistols
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Discography
Studio album: Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols
EPs: Spunk | Some Product: Carri on Sex Pistols | The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle | Flogging a Dead Horse
Live albums: Live at Chemsford Top Security Prison | Anarchy in the UK: Live at the 76 Club | Live at Winterland 1978 | Filthy Lucre Live
Singles: "Anarchy in the U.K." | "God Save the Queen" | "Pretty Vacant" | "Holidays in the Sun" | "No One Is Innocent"
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Public Image Ltd. | Malcolm McLaren | Jamie Reid | Ronnie Biggs | Edward Tudor-Pole | The Professionals | The Filth and the Fury | Ex Pistols | Punk rock

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