

He used to perspire at the kitchen table, as if somebody was about to break down the door, charge him with being a paedophile and drag him off to prison. The image of the boy came from a gay magazine, an English one called Boys Express I purchased in Brixton, and the guitar shape was taken using the outline of Glen Matlock's bass.īernie Rhodes - who worked with me and printed my t-shirts - was a bit frightened about printing the nude boy image. I wanted to create something of a stir and the idea of the group and the name I gave them was that they were sexy young assassins and the way this boy stood with his cigarette could look like a smoking gun. I was acting on behalf of the group at that time. "This was my first attempt at making a Sex Pistols t-shirt.

Malcolm McLaren, interviewed by Paul Gorman, October 2008:
