Images of royalty, poverty and contemporary artists (Leo Sayer, Bay City Rollers, Rick Wakeman) are wedged into the storyline with an attitude reflective of the band. Ongoing rifts amongst members of the group would lead to more personnel changes, a disastrous tour of the US and the Sex Pistols ultimately tearing itself apart.ĭirector Danny Boyle adopts a mixture of frenetic editing and an eclectic soundtrack to root this biopic to the world that the Pistols rebelled against. Unfortunately, they didn’t necessarily align with the band’s best interests. Never mind the bollocks that Jones couldn’t play guitar and Rotten couldn’t sing, McLaren had loftier ambitions. A fateful decision to engage Malcolm McLaren, the proprietor of a local fetish clothing store, as the group’s manager results in Wally’s departure and the addition of Glen Matlock and Johnny Rotten. Tormented by an abusive childhood, Jones’ anger found an outlet in the rock band he started with school friends Paul Cook and Wally Nightingale. As such, while it would be impossible to push the likes of Johnny Rotten and Malcolm McLaren to the background, unexpected characters like Chrissie Hynde do get an equal amount of airtime. Though this series does cover the short reign of the iconic punk rock band Sex Pistols, it is fundamentally a biopic of the group’s co-founder and guitarist Steve Jones.
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