The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle |
| Country of production | United Kingdom |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1980 |
| length | 103 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Julien Temple |
| script | Julien Temple |
| production |
Don Boyd Jeremy Thomas |
| music | Sex pistols |
| camera |
Adam Barker-Mill Nicholas D. Knowland John Metcalfe Willi Patterson |
| cut |
Richard Bedford Crispin Green Mike Maslin Bernie Pokrzywa David Rae Gordon Swire |
| occupation | |
The Great Rock'n 'Roll Swindle (Engl. For The Great Rock' n 'Roll Swindle ) is a British mockumentary film from the year 1980 by Julien Temple about the British punk rock band Sex Pistols .
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Guitarist Steve Jones plays a seedy private detective who, after a series of incidents, unearths the truth about the band.
The film tells a stylized, fictional version of the history of the band, their rise and subsequent breakup from the perspective of their then manager Malcolm McLaren. In the film, McLaren pretends to have founded the Sex Pistols and brought them to the top of the music business by using them as puppets for his own purposes. Furthermore, he claims the financial proceeds from the contracts that have come about in the short history of the band, including a. with the labels EMI , A&M , Virgin and Warner Bros. Records .
Drummer Paul Cook and bassist Sid Vicious play minor roles in the film, as do Ronald Biggs , who was fleeing train robber at the time , Edward Tudor-Pole from Tenpole Tudor , sex movie star Mary Millington and actresses Irene Handl and Liz Fraser .
background
The footage was shot in the spring / summer of 1978, between John Lydon's departure and the end of the band. The film was ultimately released almost two years later. Lydon was only listed as The Collaborator in the credits , and the original bass guitarist Glen Matlock only appeared in the archive footage. Lydon had declined to be associated with the production.
The 2000 documentary The Filth and the Fury , also by Julien Temple, retells the story from the perspective of the band. With this, Temple himself refutes the claim in The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle that McLaren is said to have been the driving, creative head of the band.
The film was screened at the wake by Ian Curtis , front man of Joy Division .
publication
The subheading of the VHS version released by Virgin Video in 1982 read “The Swindle Continues in Your Own Home” (English for “The swindle continues in your home” ). In 2005 the film was released on DVD by Sony.
Web links
- The Great Rock'n 'Roll Swindle in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The Great Rock'n 'Roll Swindle at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle . In: The New York Times .
- ↑ James Nice: Shadowplayers: The Rise and Fall of Factory Records . Aurum Press Ltd., Great Britain 2010, ISBN 9781845136345 , p. 121.