Sex Pistols Memorabilia Burned In London (NSFW)
Sex Pistols Manager's Son Set Fire To $8 Million Worth Of Artifacts
40 years after the Sex Pistols released debut single “Anarchy in the UK”, their manager’s son sparked a little anarchy of his own.
“Welcome to the great punk rock swindle,” declared Joe Corre, son of Sex Pistols’ manager Malcolm McLaren and fashion designer Vivienne Westwood, just moments before setting fire to a boat on the river Thames containing rare and valuable punk artifacts in London on Saturday.
Speaking from on board the vessel, Corre said he was destroying the items — which included rare gig posters, one-off recordings and original items of punk clothing that are said to be worth upwards of £5 million pounds ($8.4 million Canadian) — in protest of the “commercialization and mainstream adoption of the once radical youth movement” that his parents helped spawn.
Watch the spectacle below (warning: contains profanity NSFW)
