SEX PISTOLS – STEVE JONES, A personal notebook belonging to Steve

STUNNING. A handwritten notebook attributed to Steve Jones (born 1955), guitarist and founding member of the Sex Pistols, containing several unpublished song lyrics, personal notes, telephone numbers and a drawing. Among the most remarkable documents is ‘Sid My Hero’, a multi-page text dedicated to Sid Vicious, the Sex Pistols’ bassist who died in 1979. The lyrics, written in blue ink, feature numerous crossings-out, corrections and rewrites, revealing the various stages of the writing process. The text ‘Sid My Hero’, presented as a composition that was never recorded, offers a personal account of this relationship, as seen through the eyes of one of the band’s founding members. The notebook also contains, according to its original description, the lyrics to another unreleased song, ‘Once I Was a Queen’, as well as several personal annotations. A handwritten note addressed to Jones by Helen Wellington-Lloyd, known as Helen of Troy, appears on the first page. A close associate of Malcolm McLaren and the Sex Pistols’ entourage, she helped create the band’s early graphic material, before Jamie Reid developed their now-iconic visual identity. Taken as a whole, the collection offers a rare insight into Steve Jones’s personal and creative world, beyond his role as guitarist in one of the founding bands of British punk. An Aguttes certificate of authenticity is included.

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