Sex Pistols plan 30th anniversary reissues, vinyl singles

This year, seminal punk rock act Sex Pistols will be marking the 30th anniversary of their landmark album, Never Mind the Bollocks, with a number of special vinyl reissues.

Re-creating all the original artwork from the first editions' front, back and onbody, and housed in unfinished heavy-weight paper sleeves, Virgin Records will be issuing the band's four classic singles - "Anarchy In The UK", "God Save The Queen", "Pretty Vacant" and "Holidays In The Sun" - an a once a week basis throughout October.

The series will culminate in the release of the album in heavy weight vinyl with a seven-inch insert of the track "Submission" and poster - just as the album was originally released on October 28th 1977. This format came about when the original vinyl album was released a week earlier than planned due to French imports, and "Submission" was left off. In the original release, a one-sided 7-inch was packaged with the album featuring the song for the first 50,000 pressed.

You can check out the entire schedule of releases here.