“New York” by The Sex Pistols

"New York" is on Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols, the band's only studio album, which Virgin let loose on 28 October 1977. Paul Cook, Steve Jones, John Lydon and Glen Matlock share the writing credit, but Matlock, the original bassist, left early in the sessions and played on just one song, "Anarchy in the U.K." Chris Thomas and Bill Price ran the sessions, apart or together, and share the production credit across the record.

It arrived already notorious. The Pistols had sworn on live TV, been dropped by two labels and banned from playing parts of Britain; shops refused the album and some charts left its title blank. It still entered the UK chart at number one, and it is often named the most influential punk album of them all.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz.