{"id":5304,"date":"2015-06-12T09:06:44","date_gmt":"2015-06-12T09:06:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylight.gr\/administrator_wordpress\/index.php\/2015\/06\/12\/never-mind-the-creditcards-sex-pistols-appear-on-credit-cards\/"},"modified":"2015-06-12T09:06:44","modified_gmt":"2015-06-12T09:06:44","slug":"never-mind-the-creditcards-sex-pistols-appear-on-credit-cards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2015\/06\/12\/never-mind-the-creditcards-sex-pistols-appear-on-credit-cards\/","title":{"rendered":"Never mind the credit cards! Sex Pistols appear on credit cards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/6\/6d\/Sex_Pistols_in_Paradiso_-_Johnny_Rotten_2.jpg\/640px-Sex_Pistols_in_Paradiso_-_Johnny_Rotten_2.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"215\" height=\"324\" \/><br \/>The  controversial group\u2019s name and record sleeve artwork will appear on the  cards from Virgin Money available from today, 38 years after they were  first signed by Virgin Records under Sir Richard Branson. Michele  Greene, director of cards at Virgin Money &#8211; which styles itself as a  challenger to larger and more established lenders &#8211; said: \u201cFor a long  time now, UK banks have all been the same. &#8220;In launching these cards, we wanted to celebrate Virgin\u2019s heritage and difference.<\/p>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The  Sex Pistols challenged convention and the established ways of thinking,  just as we are doing today in our quest to shake up UK banking.\u201d Cards will feature artwork from the band\u2019s Never Mind The Bollocks album and the single Anarchy In The UK.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The  Sex Pistols led the wave of punk rebellion in the late 1970s with loud,  confrontational music and lyrics and provocative behaviour that sought  to break the monotony of conventional popular culture. Virgin  Money\u2019s new cards will feature three different designs, two using the  yellow and pink Never Mind The Bollocks design and one featuring Anarchy  In The UK\u2019s imagery of a ripped red, white and blue Union Flag and  safety pins.<\/p>\n<p>The  cards will use new technology removing embossing and allowing the  names, card number and expiry date to be moved to the back. A  Virgin Money spokesman said: \u201cThe relationship between Sir Richard  Branson and the Sex Pistols goes back 40 years. They were happy to be  involved in this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Details of the value of the endorsement were not disclosed. Sir Richard, who today controls a 35% stake in Virgin Money, signed the Sex Pistols to his Virgin label in 1977. He  said today: \u201cThe Sex Pistols are an iconic band and an important part  of Virgin\u2019s history. Virgin Money is a bank that can be proud of its  past and I love the fact that the team have chosen to celebrate it in  this way.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Even after nearly 40 years, the Sex Pistols power to provoke is undimmed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Virgin  Money, which celebrated its 20th anniversary in March, made its stock  market debut in November. Annual profits for 2014, stripping out one-off  items, rose 127% to \u00a3121.2 million. Sex Pistols lead singer John Lydon previously starred in an advertising campaign for Country Life butter.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Source: Yahoo Music<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The controversial group\u2019s name and record sleeve artwork will appear on the cards from Virgin&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5304\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}