The Band: The Sex Pistols
The Doc: Julien Temple directs this full-on anarchic glimpse at the 26-month-long reign of The Sex Pistols. A companion piece to Temple's The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle, this re-examines the events from the band's perspective, as opposed to manager Malcolm McClaren's.
That's not to say that this documentary glamourises the Pistols at all. We see things go downhill when the band journey stateside, and Sid Vicious' grotty demise is no less shocking for the fact you know it is coming. Temple also does a fine job of setting up the context of rioting, striking and political unrest that underpinned the Pistols' turbulent rise to fame.
Musical Highlight: 'Anarchy in the UK' sums it all up really.
Encore? While this is a fascinating snapshot of the time, some of the band's outrageous antics seem a little dated now, so you might not return to this again and again.
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Hadouken76
Jul 1st 2010, 15:15
Flight 666, lets face it you wont see Bono pilotting the tour plane any time soon and I recently saw a 4 hour doc on Tom Petty, i didnt like Tom Petty but I do now!
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stomachpop
Jul 4th 2010, 15:33
The Flaming Lips doc 'The Fearless Freaks' is amazing! Put together with years worth of footage featuring some truly strange and interesting characters....or there is always the ace bio 'Hated' about GG Allen, frontman for the The Murder Jumkies, not only do we see him brawl with fans and roll around in his own faeces but the footage of his final concert where he runs naked from the cops and emerges from a window with a needle hanging from his arm is surely the spirit of rock and roll captured on film!
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