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This year is the Queen's Golden Jubilee, and to mark the occasion one of the biggest British recording companies is bringing out a CD in which the principal song is entitled "God Save the Queen." It is going to be heavily promoted, with the express aim of reaching the No. 1 spot on the charts. But this "God Save the Queen" is not quite what it seems. It is a mock-anthem by the long defunct punk group the Sex Pistols, first issued back in 1977, and featuring such snappy lines as "God Save the Queen/She ain't no human being."
We have been here before. The song was originally timed to coincide with the Queen's Silver Jubilee, and reissuing it seems as much as ...