Here We Go!
Introducing another gem from the Sex Pistols collection!
This time, we’re diving into another single linked to The Great Rock ’n’ Roll Swindle:
(I’m Not Your) Stepping Stone / Pistols Propaganda
Let’s take a look at the original UK press release!
🧷 Basic Specs
- Title: (I’m Not Your) Stepping Stone
- Artist: Sex Pistols
- Format: 7-inch single (45RPM)
- Release Date: 14 June 1980
- Label / Catalogue No.: Virgin VS339
- Sleeve: Picture sleeve
🧷 Tracks
- Side A: (I’m Not Your) Stepping Stone
- Side B: Pistols Propaganda
🧷 Pressing / Variations
✔️ Matrix / Runout (Etched)
- VS-339-A4 Λ / VS-339-B4 Λ
✔️ Sleeve
- Made of thick card stock
- Features the same illustration as the single-disc version of The Great Rock ’n’ Roll Swindle album!
✔️ Label
- Swindle-style colour picture label
- Single-tone yellow label — though it leans slightly greenish 😄
✔️ Credits
- Side A
Produced by: DAVE GOODMAN
Assistant: S. JONES - Side B
Words & Compilation: Julien Temple
Music: Sex Pistols
Voice: John Snagge
🧷 Collector’s Notes
- This is the only single in the TGRRS series with Johnny Rotten on lead vocals for the A-side.
(There’s “Watcha Gonna Do…” on a B-side, but that’s a different story.) - The B-side, Pistols Propaganda, plays like a mock film trailer — chaotic and tongue-in-cheek.
The very first TGRRS VHS tape I ever bought had this promo right at the beginning 😆
(VOS-4824 Hi-Fi, 104min) — priced at ¥4,944 when it launched on 1 July 1990. Seemed like a good deal at the time. It’s even cheaper now 😅
I had a DVD copy but couldn’t manage to grab a still — luckily, I found the exact same version on YouTube! It even has Japanese subtitles 😊
🔜 Coming Up Next…
Next up in the TGRRS series:
“The Great Rock ’n’ Roll Swindle / Rock Around the Clock” (Virgin VS290) — featuring both the purple and yellow label variations!
Stay tuned — only a few more left in this series!
byebye 👋
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