Sex Pistols ‘Live in the U.S.A. 1978’ Album is Coming

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Decades after the Sex Pistols’ impact was felt in the late ’70s, the band’s concerts from their 1978 U.S. tour are finally being released in full and correctly sequenced for the very first time. Live In The U.S.A. 1978 arrives on 3-CDs on April 25, 2025, via UMe. Pre-order is available in the U.S. here and in the U.K. here. The set’s three concerts will also be released individually on colored vinyl in the U.S. here and in the U.K. here.

From the label’s announcement: It’s a document of the last days of the band left to run adrift by absent management on a label that didn’t really understand them, in a country that arguably felt more threatened than it did excited by the group. Until their return as a live entity in 1996, everything that followed their short, fateful tour of America in January 1978 was simply a parody of what had been. Live In The U.S.A. 1978 takes us back to the moment the creative force that was the Sex Pistols imploded.

The collection includes the Pistols’ infamous Winterland show, along with performances in Atlanta and Dallas.

Sex Pistols Live in the U.S.A. 1978 Track Listing

CD1 – January 5, 1978, Atlanta, South East Music Hall
1. God Save The Queen
2. I Wanna Be Me
3. Seventeen
4. New York
5. Bodies
6. Submission
7. Holidays In The Sun
8. EMI
9. No Feelings
10. Problems
11. Pretty Vacant
12. Anarchy In The UK

CD2 – January 10, 1978 Dallas, Longhorns Ballroom
1. Intro/Radio Ad
2. God Save The Queen
3. I Wanna Be Me
4. Seventeen
5. New York
6. EMI
7. Bodies
8. Belsen Was A Gas
9. Holidays in the Sun
10. No Feelings
11. Problems
12. Pretty Vacant
13. Anarchy In The UK
14. No Fun

CD3 – January 14, 1978 San Francisco, Winterland Ballroom
1. God Save The Queen
2. I Wanna Be Me
3. Seventeen
4. New York
5. EMI
6. Belsen Was A Gas
7. Bodies
8. Holidays In The Sun
9. Liar
10. No Feelings
11. Problems
12. Pretty Vacant
13. Anarchy in the UK
14. No Fun