Marshall is celebrating 50 years of the punk rock pioneers the Intercourse Pistols with a limited-edition pink-and-yellow JCM800 Half Stack.

Impressed by the pink-and-yellow color scheme of the band’s seminal – and solely – album, 1977’s By no means Thoughts the Bollocks, Right here’s the Intercourse Pistols, the Intercourse Pistols fiftieth Anniversary JCM800 was developed in shut collaboration with guitarist Steve Jones.

It presents up 100W of uncooked British valve tone, and includes a JCM800 head paired with a 4×12 1960A cupboard with Celestion G12T-75 audio system, serving to seize the “aggression and readability that outlined the band’s sound”.

Every unit is constructed at Marshall’s Bletchley, UK manufacturing facility, and comes clad in the identical pink-and-yellow colourway as that landmark Pistols file, and contains a customized fiftieth Anniversary badge, making it “as a lot a collector’s piece as a stage-ready weapon”.

“The JCM800 turned a defining voice of British punk,” says Steph Carter, Tradition Advertising Director at Marshall. “Working with Steve to reimagine this amp for the band’s fiftieth Anniversary has been a strong tribute to the sound that modified every part.”

“I’ve been utilizing Marshall for a very long time now and the 800 sequence for me are my workhorse – at all times dependable, at all times constant,” provides Steve Jones. “I prefer to preserve issues easy, because the saying goes. It’s solely rock ‘n’ roll.”

Matt Younger, President and CEO of Bravado, the Intercourse Pistols longtime merch companion that was a key driver of the collaboration, provides: “With By no means Thoughts the Bollocks, the Intercourse Pistols embodied the zeitgeist of punk rock’s sound and aesthetic in a game-changing manner. 

“This collaboration with the band and Marshall celebrates that second in a loud and irreverent manner and we expect musicians and collectors everywhere in the world are going to like it.

Accessible from 17 April 2026, the Intercourse Pistols fiftieth Anniversary JCM800 Half Stack is restricted to only 81 models worldwide.

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