2.10.11

the great rock n roll swindle (1980)


"It's a swindle!"
A private eye (Steve Jones) tries to track down the Embezzler (Malcolm McLaren) and find out what's happened to the money he took from various record labels, in an attempted biography of the Sex Pistols. But from the start its an incoherent mess.
Worth a watch to see the Sex Pistols at their best, and ignore the philosophising and re-versioning of the story by McLaren, as he tries to wring some more cash out of the money making machine at any costs. An incoherent art-school prank AND a cynical cash in. Cash from chaos indeed!

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