The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle

The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle

Infobox_Film
name =The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle


imdb_id =0080813
writer = Julien Temple
starring = Johnny Rotten
Steve Jones
Glen Matlock
Paul Cook
Sid Vicious Malcolm McLarenMary Millington Irene Handl
director =Julien Temple
producer =Don Boyd Jeremy Thomas
music =Sex Pistols | distributor =
released =May, 1980
runtime =103 min.
language =English
movie_series_label=
movie_series =
awards =
budget =

"The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle" (1980) is a fictional "documentary" (a "mockumentary") film directed by Julien Temple and produced by Don Boyd and Jeremy Thomas about the British punk rock band Sex Pistols. It starred guitarist Steve Jones as "The Crook", bassist Sid Vicious as "The Gimmick", drummer Paul Cook as "The Tea-Maker", and the band's manager, Malcolm McLaren, as "The Embezzler". Train robber Ronnie Biggs also made appearances.

Notably, singer Johnny Rotten (who was listed in the credits as "The Collaborator") only appeared in archival footage and as an animated character due to his refusal to have anything to do with the film. Original bassist Glen Matlock also appears only in archival footage and briefly in an animated segment.

The movie tells a stylised and fictionalised account of the formation, rise and subsequent breakup of the band, from the point of view of then-manager Malcolm McLaren. In the film, McLaren claims to create the Sex Pistols and manipulate them to the top of the rock and roll industry, using them as puppets to both further his own agenda (in his own words - "chaos"), and to claim the financial rewards from the various record labels the band were signed to during their brief history - EMI, A&M, Virgin, and Warner.

The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle inspired Martin Durkin to use the title "The Great Global Warming Swindle" for his anti-environmentalism propaganda film.

ee also

* "The Filth and the Fury"
* "Who Killed Bambi?"
* "The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle (album)"
* "The Great Drum & Bass Swindle"

External links

* [http://www.digitallyobsessed.com/showreview.php3?ID=7211 DVD review]
* [http://antipunk.org/sex-pistols-the-great-rock-n-roll-swindle-video/ Sex Pistols | The Great Rock ‘n’ Roll Swindle]
* [http://observer.guardian.co.uk/omm/reviews/story/0,13875,1487693,00.html "The Great Rock and Roll Swindle" remembered by McLaren employee Sue Steward]


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