God Save the Queen (Sex Pistols song)
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.