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John Lydon’s Handwritten Sex Pistols Lyrics Headed to Auction Block
The lyric manuscript to the Sex Pistols classics "Holidays in the Sun" and "Submission" are being sold at auction for an estimated $80,000.
Lead singer Johnny Rotten, drummer Paul Cook and guitarist Steve Jones of Britain's punk-rock band The Sex Pistols perform during their first American concert in Atlanta. The Pistols frontman wrote out the lyrics in green pen on opposite sides of the same sheet of paper, crossing out words and phrases and adding the discarded line “a cheap holiday in other people’s misery” on the top in pencil. It comes with a certificate of authenticity and a signed letter of provenance from music journalist Jon Savage, who collected the document during his research for his 1991 book England’s Dreaming: Anarchy, Sex Pistols, Punk Rock, and Beyond.
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