20/10/2025
THE BLANK GENERATION EP. Previously released on ORK Records in the US and Stiff Records in the UK in 1976. When signing up with Sire and having the debut album out in 1977 this good looking 12inch was released prior the album.
Malcolm McLaren claimed that the S*x Pistols’ song ”Pretty Vacant” was directly inspired by ”Blank Generation”.
Malcolm McLaren “I came back to England determined. I had these images I came back with, it was like Marco Polo or Walter Raleigh. I brought back the image of this distressed, strange thing called Richard Hell. And this phrase, ’the blank generation’. Richard Hell was a definite, 100 percent inspiration, and, in fact, I remember telling the S*x Pistols, ’Write a song like Blank Generation, but write your own bloody version,’ and their own version was ’Pretty Vacant’.” —Malcolm McLaren in an interview in Please Kill Me, the Uncensored Oral History of Punk, Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain, Grove Press (1996)