Where the Sex Pistols’ Logo Was Born

In this flat at 93 Bell Street, in Marylebone, Helen Wellington-Lloyd created the “blackmail” style lettering logo for the Sex Pistols, in 1976, when she designed the band’s early promotional material with Nils Stevenson and Malcom McLaren, who moved in with her for a while.

Joe Strummer’s Squat

For a few years, Strummer helped make a strip of West London an unlikely punk hotspot. His like-minded neighbours included The Slits, who hung out a few doors down at number 43, two of the Sex Pistols and Malcolm McLaren, who lived round the corner on Bell Street, and The Damned who practised nearby.

Sid and Nancy’s Flat

Malcom McLaren rented this unfurnished flat for Sid Vicious (and his girlfriend Nancy Spungen) in Maida Vale, on the 24th of August 1977.

When he was told that it was only a 7-year lease, Malcolm allegedly replied “That’s fine, he’ll be dead by then…”

Screen On The Green

Aside from being a cinema, this place is probably most widely known for its ‘Midnight Special’ on Sunday 29 August 1976, when The Clash and Buzzcocks supported The Sex Pistols in a showcase event organised by Malcolm Maclaren…but there’s more to it!

Chelsea Cloisters

Syd Barrett lived into number 902, a large 2 bedroom apartment on the ninth floor, here at the Chelsea Cloisters, off Kings Road in South Kensington since 1973, when Johnny Rotten, Sid Vicious and Nancy Spungen moved in one of the ‘cockroach-infested’ flats in June 1977.