Live In The U.S.A 1978 – San Francisco Album Cover
Artist: 
Sex Pistols

Live In The U.S.A 1978 – San Francisco 14th January 1978 San Francisco, Winterland Ballroom, USA (Blue LP)

$29.99

40 plus years on, the Sex Pistols output from their original creative period together, forged amidst times of poor leadership and economic turmoil, continues to resonate in ways most could never have imagined. Not least those Stateside who witnessed the performances that make up this release.

A document of the last days of the band, left to run adrift by absent management on a label that didn’t really understand, in a country that arguably felt more threatened than it did excited by the prospect of the group, vital, primal and compelling are all words that can be used to describe the audio here. Until their return as a live entity in 1996, everything that followed their short, fateful tour of America in January 1978 was simply a parody of what had been. With concerts finally released in full and correctly sequenced for the very first time – Live In the USA 1978 takes us back to the moment the creative force that was Sex Pistols imploded.

Tracklist:

LP1 - 14th January 1978 San Francisco, Winterland Ballroom, USA
1. God Save The Queen (Side A)
2. I Wanna Be Me (Side A)
3. Seventeen (Side A)
4. New York (Side A)
5. EMI (Side A)
6. Belsen Was A Gas (Side A)
7. Bodies (Side A)
8. Holidays In The Sun (Side A)
9. Liar (Side B)
10. No Feelings (Side B)
11. Problems (Side B)
12. Pretty Vacant (Side B)
13. Anarchy in the UK (Side B)
14. No Fun (Side B)