Overview
There was a time when rock and roll was not only exciting but
downright dangerous. A time when a ratty band of
working-class English yobs with little more than a bad reputation
could get themselves banned across the country.
When a few, expletive-filled minutes on a television broadcast
could outrage an entire nation, trigger a moral panic and get the
band dropped from their label. When the English music press
preferred to abolish the No. 1 slot rather then give the band's
best-selling "God Save the Queen" its place at the top of the
charts.
The band was the Sex Pistols - guitarist Steve Jones, drummer
Paul Cook, bassist Glen Matlock (later replaced by Sid Vicious) and
snarling, front man Johnny Rotten - the short-lived but enormously
influential group that helped ignite the '70s punk-rock
explosion.
108 mins. Directed by Julien Temple, 2000. R16
Sunday 25 November - 2pm
Auditorium - free entry
Image: Albert Watson, Jagger/Leopard, 1992
gelatin silver print, private collection