On 28 October 1977 the Sex Pistols released Never Mind The Bollocks, Here's The Sex Pistols on Virgin, cut at Wessex Sound with Chris Thomas and Bill Price.
In October 1976 the Sex Pistols were back at Wessex Sound Studios in London, trying to cut a debut single that would not fall apart in the rush. Their live engineer, Dave Goodman, had already had a go. EMI paid for those sessions. Bassist Glen
Glen Matlock wrote Pretty Vacant before he was pushed out of the Sex Pistols, and the hook arrived in a bar. He has traced the descending riff to ABBA's SOS, heard on the jukebox at Moonies on Charing Cross Road while he was spending dole