Live at Chelmsford Top Security Prison explained

Live at Chelmsford Top Security Prison
Type:Live
Artist:Sex Pistols
Cover:Live at Chelmsford Top Security Prison.jpg
Released:1990
Recorded:September 17, 1976

Live at Chelmsford Top Security Prison is a live album by Sex Pistols, released in 1990. It was recorded on 17 September 1976 at the Chelmsford Prison, before Glen Matlock left the band.

The recording featured many non-Sex Pistols overdubs and insertions arranged by the band's early soundman Dave Goodman. These included a canned audio track of a riot (complete with shouting, scuffles, breaking glass, etc.). As the liner notes on the CD say:

Their opening number was "Anarchy"... at the end of the number there was a barrage of catcalls, boos and screaming.

However, the same concert tracks were released (in original play order) on the Sex Pistols: Alive CD without overdubs, contrasting with the Goodman-produced Chelmsford CD.

Track listing

  1. Satellite
  2. Submission
  3. Liar
  4. No Fun
  5. Pretty Vacant
  6. Problems
  7. I Wanna Be Me
  8. Seventeen
  9. New York
  10. No Lip
  11. Stepping Stone
  12. Substitute
  13. Anarchy in the Prison
  14. Did You No Wrong