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Sex Pistols show's rock 'n' roll swindle

Ever get the feeling you've been cheated? "Pistol" boasts a great premise and cast, but skimps on the insights

Salon

Review: You think you know the Sex Pistols. This new TV show tries to deliver a corrective

It's been 44 years since the Sex Pistols broke up and only a couple more since they played their first gig, having produced only one actual album in their lifetime. And yet they seem very much with us; the best of their music continues to sound massively huge, outside of…

Los Angeles Times

Disney+ Pistol: Everything you need to know about new biopic series - including cast, release date

The band’s singer Johnny Rotten has criticised the show

Wales Online

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Pistol on Disney+: A guide to the real-life punks who brought anarchy to the UK

The new Danny Boyle TV show is out today

Evening Standard

Pistol review – Danny Boyle’s wonky Sex Pistols show is like Punk: the Panto!

Johnny Rotten is the Artful Dodger crossed with an animated rodent in Boyle’s frustrating series that feels so cartoonish it falls totally flat

The Guardian - UK

ITV This Morning viewers get what they expected as hosts issue apology over Sex Pistols' John Lydon

The Sex Pistols singer appeared live on the ITV daytime show

Manchester Evening News

Sex Pistols Johnny Rotten swears during live This Morning interview

There was "fruity language" to kick off the Jubilee week thanks to Sex Pistol's John Lydon's appearance on ITV today

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Sex Pistols' John Lydon calls Danny Boyle an 'a***hole' during chaotic This Morning chat

Danny Boyle directed and produced the upcoming series, Pistol, which is based on the iconic punk rock band Sex Pistols

Daily Mirror

Sex Pistols' John Lydon slams Disney Plus' Sex Pistols TV series as 'pile of nonsense'

Sex Pistols frontman John Lydon - aka Johnny Rotten - has been open about his dislike of the upcoming Disney Plus series, Pistol, which is set to air at the end of the month

Daily Mirror

‘I’ve seen bedsheets with my face on them’: Thomas Brodie-Sangster on obsessive fans, Love Actually and the Sex Pistols

The actor became famous at 13 in Richard Curtis’s yuletide romance. Now 32, he talks about playing Malcolm McLaren, the success of The Queen’s Gambit and coming to terms with not playing Ron Weasley

The Guardian - UK

Pistol on Disney+ review: Danny Boyle’s series on the Sex Pistols can’t help but turn very dark

The grim realities of this story mean that the series is tonally uneven, but it’s never boring

Evening Standard

Sex Pistols drama charts rise and fall of punk band who mocked the Queen at Jubilee

They may have only last two and a half years before self-destructing but decades on the Sex Pistols' punk legacy lives on in an era eerily similar.

Daily Mirror

Capturing the anarchy in the Sex Pistols

LONDON: “Are we doing any spitting?” asked a man in the crowd at the 100 Club, a small, red-walled underground space, redolent of spilled beer, cigarette smoke and a thousand lost nights, just off London’s Oxford Street.

Bangkok Post

‘I want Johnny Rotten to attack it!’ Danny Boyle on his shocking Sex Pistols saga

How do you make a sympathetic TV show about the most cancelled, most banned, most shamelessly vile band ever – when your cast have barely heard of them and the frontman is taking you to court? The director reveals all

The Guardian - UK

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Evening Standard

Pistol, Midas Man, Elvis, Going Electric: how the classic rock canon is being rebooted

With Timothée Chalamet as Bob Dylan and Danny Boyle’s new Sex Pistols show on Disney+, old rockers are being reclaimed for a new generation

Daily Mirror

John Lydon takes another swipe at Sex Pistols TV show, claiming it is too sleazy

Sex Pistols TV show John Lydon, aka Johnny Rotten, has said the upcoming Disney+ show about his band is "upsetting as a lot of it has sexual connotations which are dubious at best"

The Independent UK

Vivienne Westwood says John Lydon ‘didn’t have any more ideas’ after Sex Pistols split

Fashion designer features in the new documentary ‘Wake Up Punk’

Nottingham Post

'My kind of people' - John Lydon recalls famous court case ahead of Nottingham Rock City gig

"Going around the city was fantastic and the best pub crawl I've ever been on"

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Daily Mirror

First look at Danny Boyle’s Sex Pistols TV series as Disney+ trailer promises chaos

Director Danny Boyle's upcoming Sex Pistols series has seen its first trailer released on Disney Plus to the excitement of fans of the Punk Rock band.

Daily Mirror

Sex Pistols are re-releasing God Save The Queen to mark her platinum jubilee

One of the world's biggest punk bands is re-issuing their track God Save The Queen to celebrate the Queen's Platinum Jubilee in June. The track was originally banned by the BBC in 1977

The Guardian - UK

Still a fascist regime? Sex Pistols’ God Save the Queen reissued to mark platinum jubilee

Once-banned punk rock anthem finally has a chance to reach No 1 after it missed out in 1977 during the Queen’s silver jubilee

Daily Mirror

Sex Pistols' John Lydon threatens to sue producers of upcoming miniseries about band

Sex Pistols frontman John Lydon has threatened to sue the producers of FX miniseries Pistol - expected to be released next month - which is an upcoming show about the British punk band

Evening Standard

Londoner’s Diary: ‘Jerusalem is no comment on our green and pleasant land’

In today’s Diary: Jez Butterworth despairs at political critics / Suki Waterhouse finds unlikely inspiration / Johnny Rotten gets the Day-Lewis treatment / Ed Balls runs out of jokes / MP gym-session gets pointed

Daily Mirror

Johnny Rotten actor in new Sex Pistols biopic dropped to eight-stone for iconic role

Anson Boon went all out for his role as Johnny Rotten in the Sex Pistols new TV biopic as he dropped down to just eight-stone in a bid to fully embody the singer

The Independent UK

‘A middle class fantasy’: John Lydon unleashes on ‘tragic’ Sex Pistols series as Danny Boyle releases trailer

‘It would be funny if it wasn’t tragic,’ his statement reads

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