SEX PISTOLS: 'The Great Rock 'N' Roll Swindle' Receives First-Time DVD Release

May 23, 2005

According to Reuters, SEX PISTOLS have just issued its posthumous movie spoof "The Great Rock 'N' Roll Swindle" on DVD for the first time. Extras on the $19.98 Shout! Factory release include a commentary track and interview featuring the film's writer/director, Julien Temple.

The movie, first released in U.K. theaters in 1980, two years after the band self-destructed on stage in San Francisco, features performances of such hits as "Anarchy in the U.K.", "Pretty Vacant" and "God Save the Queen", as well as figurehead bass player Sid Vicious' homicidal rendition of "My Way".

The film also boasts animation sequences, vintage clips of the band's brief reign of terror, and contemporary footage both of guitarist Steve Jones and drummer Paul Cook cavorting in Brazil, and of a drug-addled Vicious staggering around Paris.

A midget, a nude underage girl, an infamous British train robber, a few porn stars and an actor dressed up as Nazi war criminal Martin Bormann also make appearances.

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