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Bet you didn't know the Sex Pistols- who only ever made a single complete album- also had a feature length movie.
Actually there was supposed to be two, but the band imploded before Who Killed Bambi could be completed.
The Great Rock and Roll Swindle is almost a documentary. It features Malcolm MacLaren explaining that the Sex Pistols were really just a made up band to bilk money from record companies.
It's done as a sort of detective spoof with Paul Cook and Steve Jones (the only two members that had parts in the movie itself) trying to track down Malcolm for money he owed them.
Sid was already dead and Johnny had nothing to do with the movie. Although both appear in scenes that were shot for other videos.
Highlight- two actual videos that Sid made after the Pistols break up. If you've seen the movie Sid and Nancy, you've seen a remake of "My Way". Now see the real thing, with the real Sid and Nancy.
Some of the film is animations that were done to show the wild excess of Pistols partying. The end credits are animated to the tune of "Friggin' in the Riggin'." A great tune.
So it's semi-historical, but with that MacLaren spoof on his own creation. It does reveal the very true bit of bilking a couple record companies and never actually providing an album. It also has great real footage of the infamous Queen's Jubilee boat concert that got the band arrested. Also real footage of when the Pistols came to podunk town USA and nearly caused the world to implode. Sid attacking audience members (a bunch of rodeo hicks no less) with his chest bleeding from carving NANCY or I NEED A FIX into it.
If you know nothing of the band and it's history, the film will make very little sense to you. But it's still pretty fun. Being a Pistols fan, you've probably already seen it. If not- bollocks to you.
Actually there was supposed to be two, but the band imploded before Who Killed Bambi could be completed.
The Great Rock and Roll Swindle is almost a documentary. It features Malcolm MacLaren explaining that the Sex Pistols were really just a made up band to bilk money from record companies.
It's done as a sort of detective spoof with Paul Cook and Steve Jones (the only two members that had parts in the movie itself) trying to track down Malcolm for money he owed them.
Sid was already dead and Johnny had nothing to do with the movie. Although both appear in scenes that were shot for other videos.
Highlight- two actual videos that Sid made after the Pistols break up. If you've seen the movie Sid and Nancy, you've seen a remake of "My Way". Now see the real thing, with the real Sid and Nancy.
Some of the film is animations that were done to show the wild excess of Pistols partying. The end credits are animated to the tune of "Friggin' in the Riggin'." A great tune.
So it's semi-historical, but with that MacLaren spoof on his own creation. It does reveal the very true bit of bilking a couple record companies and never actually providing an album. It also has great real footage of the infamous Queen's Jubilee boat concert that got the band arrested. Also real footage of when the Pistols came to podunk town USA and nearly caused the world to implode. Sid attacking audience members (a bunch of rodeo hicks no less) with his chest bleeding from carving NANCY or I NEED A FIX into it.
If you know nothing of the band and it's history, the film will make very little sense to you. But it's still pretty fun. Being a Pistols fan, you've probably already seen it. If not- bollocks to you.