God save the queen

"God Save The Queen" (based on a Cecil Beaton photograph of Queen Elizabeth II, with an added safety pin through her nose and swastikas in her eyes, described by Sean O'Hagan of The Observer as "the single most iconic image of the punk era")

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Jamie Reid has created two original artworks, _God Save Us All_ and _God Save the USA_, centred around Donald Trump for Toby Mott’s "Cultural Traffic":http://culturaltraffic.com/ NY, the inaugural US edition of his counterculture fair. Anarchist artist Jamie Reid is one of the best known creatives of the punk era, as creator of the Sex Pistols’ iconic _God Save the Queen_ album artwork.

In Britain, punk rock coincided with serious economic recession, mass unemployment, the tail end of an unpopular Labour government, strikes and industrial disputes, a sense of national decline and a demand for change.

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Jamie Reid The Sex Pistols, 1977 US Promotional Banner Poster 11¾ x 34¼ in. (30 x 87 cm.) Backed on linen

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