Richard Branson Remembers Signing the Sex Pistols and Hoping it Didn’t Affect His Knighthood
“I was just praying that … the sword actually just touched my shoulder and didn’t lop my head off,” he said on SiriusXM.
It’s difficult to decide what to talk about when you get Richard Branson in a room, but he seemed to cover it all on “Learning with Richard Branson,” a new special series on SiriusXM hosted by the British billionaire alongside John Fugelsang.
In this episode, Branson shared stories about his Virgin record label (which came before his airline) and how he saw the Sex Pistols as “a young version of The Rolling Stones” before signing them.
“It wasn’t particularly polite about the monarchy,” Branson said of “God Save the Queen,” the Sex Pistols’ second single. “And 25 years later, when the Queen was actually knighting me, I was just praying that she didn’t remember [the song] and that the sword actually just touched my shoulder and didn’t lop my head off.”
