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There is no single author of the Penguin Random House book, which is the work of “educators and history experts” who collaborated to produce a “warm, inclusive story”. The book says that, for decades, Westwood, 81, has “turned the fashion world on its head with her bold catwalk creations, resulting in a damehood in 2006”. Upon its release, the song was banned from both the BBC and radio stations regulated by the Independent Broadcasting Authority with Radio 2 controller Charles McLelland saying the song was "in gross bad taste". [13] Additionally, the major retailers Boots, WHSmith, and Woolworths all declined to sell the record. [14] Nevertheless, it peaked at No. 2 (below Rod Stewart's " I Don't Want to Talk About It" released as a double A-side budget single along with " The First Cut Is the Deepest") on the official UK Singles Chart used by the BBC; it did so during the week of the Silver Jubilee's official observation. [4] [15] [16] On the singles chart displayed in branches of WH Smith, the single's position at No. 2 was represented by a blank line. [17]
Queen Elizabeth II ('God Save the Queen') - National Portrait Gallery". Npg.org.uk . Retrieved 24 December 2021.Official Singles Chart Top 100 | Official Charts Company". Officialcharts.com. 7 October 2016. Archived from the original on 23 November 2012 . Retrieved 2016-10-12. Billy Idol performed this song with Generation Sex at Glastonbury 2023 Generation Sex - God Save the Queen (Glastonbury 2023) on YouTube}} Olympics (28 July 2012). The Complete London 2012 Opening Ceremony London 2012 Olympic Games (Video). Olympics. Event occurs at 11m18s. Sex Pistols to re-release God Save the Queen ahead of Jubilee". BBC News. BBC News. 3 May 2022 . Retrieved 14 November 2022. John Lydon criticises Sex Pistols Jubilee re-release". BBC News. 17 April 2012 . Retrieved 18 April 2012.
a b Savage, Mark (3 May 2022). "Sex Pistols to re-release God Save the Queen ahead of Jubilee". BBC News . Retrieved 4 May 2022. A performance of the song recorded during the band's twenty-fifth anniversary concert at Brixton Academy, on 22 October 2000, appears on their 25 & Alive Boneshaker DVD.Robb, Simon (4 November 2016). "BBC just trolled a conservative MP brilliantly with God Save the Queen". Metro . Retrieved 4 November 2016.
A cover version by the English heavy metal band Motörhead was released as a single in 2000 to promote their album, We Are Motörhead. It also appears on their covers album Under Cöver (2017).Her provocative designs included the T-shirt which appropriated artist Jamie Reid’s cover image for The Sex Pistols’ 1977 anthem God Save The Queen, released to puncture the Silver Jubilee celebrations.