Jamie Reid

[7][8] His best known works include the Sex Pistols album Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols, and the singles "Anarchy in the U.K.", "God Save the Queen" (based on a Cecil Beaton photograph of Queen Elizabeth II, with an added safety pin through her nose and swastikas in her eyes, described by Sean O'Hagan of The Observer as "the single most iconic image of the punk era"),[9][1][10] "Pretty Vacant", and "Holidays in the Sun".

[5] The image from "God Save the Queen" was named "the greatest record cover of all time" by Q magazine in 2011[6] and later became part of the collection in the National Portrait Gallery.

Ten years later, on the thirtieth anniversary of the release of "God Save the Queen", Reid produced a new print entitled "Never Trust a Punk", based on his original design which was exhibited at London Art Fair in the Islington area of the city.

[16] In 2009, following allegations Damien Hirst was to sue a student for copyright infringement, Reid called him a "hypocritical and greedy art bully" and, in collaboration with Jimmy Cauty, produced his For the Love of Disruptive Strategies and Utopian Visions in Contemporary Art and Culture image as a pastiche, replacing the God Save The Queen with God Save Damien Hirst.

[17][18] In October 2010, U.S. activist David Jacobs, founder of the early 1970s Situationist group Point-Blank!, challenged claims that Reid created the "Nowhere Buses" graphic which appeared on the sleeve to the Sex Pistols' 1977 single "Pretty Vacant" and has subsequently been used many times for limited edition prints.