The Sex Pistols are planning to rerelease their anti-monarchist song God Save the Queen in time for Britain’s Queen Elizabeth Diamond Jubilee.
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The punk rockers – who initially released the song in 1977 ahead of Elizabeth’s 25th year celebrations – will go head to head with a specially-created track by Gary Barlow and Lord Andrew Lloyd Webber in the UK charts at the end of May.
Upon its first release the song went to number two in the charts behind Rod Stewart’s I Don’t Want To Talk About It/The First Cut is the Deepest.
God Save the Queen features lyrics about the queen, claiming she is “not a human being” and suggests the monarchy is a “fascist regime”.
These days, lead singer Johnny Rotten, aka John Lydon, likes the royals.
“People think I hate the Royal Family, but that’s not true,” he said last year in the run up to Will and Kate’s wedding.
“I love a bit of flag-waving.”
Back in 1977, many stores refused to stock God Save the Queen and it was banned from play on BBC Radio 1.
The Sex Pistols broke up in 1978, though they have reformed several times since.
