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God Save the Queen (Sex Pistols song)

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God Save the Queen is a Sex Pistols song, featuring on the album Never Mind The Bollocks, Here's The Sex Pistols, and named after the national anthem of the United Kingdom, God Save the Queen. It was released in 1977 in protest at the Queen's Silver Jubilee.

Many fans hold that it sold more copies in the week of its release than the official number 1, The First Cut is the Deepest, by Rod Stewart, and that it was held at number 2 for political reasons. When it was released, the song was banned in almost all of Britain.

The Sex pistols originally wanted to call the song "No Future," but their manager Malcolm McLaren knew the Queen's silver Jubilee was approching. He convinced the band to change the songs name to "God Save the Queen" because he knew it would create a lot of controversy. People were anticipating the release of God Save the Queen but the release was delayed because McLaren wanted it to be released at the time of the Jubilee.

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