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‘I know what it’s like to be frightened’: John Lydon on loneliness, lyrics and life as a Sex Pistol

After 45 years of picking fights, the former Johnny Rotten is squaring up to his ex-bandmates, director Danny Boyle and anyone who disrespects the Queen. But what’s really impressive is his capacity for love

The Guardian - UK

Bus promoting Disney's new Sex Pistol's drama gets stuck under crossbar outside Principality Stadium

South Wales Police has said the driver has been reported for allegedly driving "without due car and attention"

Wales Online

‘It’s now or never, this is my chance’: Anson Boon on his biggest break, punk and Johnny Rotten

For young actor Anson Boon, playing Johnny Rotten Danny Boyle’s Pistol is a dream come true. But what did punk teach him about himself?

The Guardian - UK

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Never Mind the Bollocks: 45 years on from disrupting the Jubilee, does it still sound dangerous?

An hour ago, Jessica Benjamin had never heard ‘Never Mind the Bollocks’. Now she has.

Evening Standard

Sex Pistols story spills out in a fast-paced, aggressive bio on Hulu

No punk expertise required to make sense of the flashy six-part series about Johnny Rotten and his bandmates.

Chicago Sun-Times

Sex Pistols show's rock 'n' roll swindle

Ever get the feeling you've been cheated? "Pistol" boasts a great premise and cast, but skimps on the insights

Salon

Review: You think you know the Sex Pistols. This new TV show tries to deliver a corrective

It's been 44 years since the Sex Pistols broke up and only a couple more since they played their first gig, having produced only one actual album in their lifetime. And yet they seem very much with us; the best of their music continues to sound massively huge, outside of…

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The Sex Pistols rock again in Danny Boyle's FX show 'Pistol'

Anson Boon got so into playing Johnny Rotten that he hurt himself rocking too hard.

Tribune News Service

Disney+ Pistol: Everything you need to know about new biopic series - including cast, release date

The band’s singer Johnny Rotten has criticised the show

Wales Online

Pistol on Disney+: A guide to the real-life punks who brought anarchy to the UK

The new Danny Boyle TV show is out today

Evening Standard

Pistol review – Danny Boyle’s wonky Sex Pistols show is like Punk: the Panto!

Johnny Rotten is the Artful Dodger crossed with an animated rodent in Boyle’s frustrating series that feels so cartoonish it falls totally flat

The Guardian - UK

ITV This Morning viewers get what they expected as hosts issue apology over Sex Pistols' John Lydon

The Sex Pistols singer appeared live on the ITV daytime show

Manchester Evening News

Sex Pistols' John Lydon calls Danny Boyle an 'a***hole' during chaotic This Morning chat

Danny Boyle directed and produced the upcoming series, Pistol, which is based on the iconic punk rock band Sex Pistols

Daily Mirror

Sex Pistols' John Lydon slams Disney Plus' Sex Pistols TV series as 'pile of nonsense'

Sex Pistols frontman John Lydon - aka Johnny Rotten - has been open about his dislike of the upcoming Disney Plus series, Pistol, which is set to air at the end of the month

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Evening Standard

Pistol on Disney+ review: Danny Boyle’s series on the Sex Pistols can’t help but turn very dark

The grim realities of this story mean that the series is tonally uneven, but it’s never boring

Daily Mirror

Sex Pistols drama charts rise and fall of punk band who mocked the Queen at Jubilee

They may have only last two and a half years before self-destructing but decades on the Sex Pistols' punk legacy lives on in an era eerily similar.

The Guardian - UK

‘I want Johnny Rotten to attack it!’ Danny Boyle on his shocking Sex Pistols saga

How do you make a sympathetic TV show about the most cancelled, most banned, most shamelessly vile band ever – when your cast have barely heard of them and the frontman is taking you to court? The director reveals all

Evening Standard

Pistol, Midas Man, Elvis, Going Electric: how the classic rock canon is being rebooted

With Timothée Chalamet as Bob Dylan and Danny Boyle’s new Sex Pistols show on Disney+, old rockers are being reclaimed for a new generation

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John Lydon takes another swipe at Sex Pistols TV show, claiming it is too sleazy

Sex Pistols TV show John Lydon, aka Johnny Rotten, has said the upcoming Disney+ show about his band is "upsetting as a lot of it has sexual connotations which are dubious at best"

Nottingham Post

'My kind of people' - John Lydon recalls famous court case ahead of Nottingham Rock City gig

"Going around the city was fantastic and the best pub crawl I've ever been on"

AFP

Sex Pistols classic 'God Save The Queen' to get jubilee revival

London (AFP) - Sex Pistols' punk-rock classic "God Save The Queen" is to get another airing to mark Queen Elizabeth II's upcoming Platinum Jubilee, 45 years after it first scandalised the pop charts.

Evening Standard

Londoner’s Diary: ‘Jerusalem is no comment on our green and pleasant land’

In today’s Diary: Jez Butterworth despairs at political critics / Suki Waterhouse finds unlikely inspiration / Johnny Rotten gets the Day-Lewis treatment / Ed Balls runs out of jokes / MP gym-session gets pointed

Daily Mirror

Johnny Rotten actor in new Sex Pistols biopic dropped to eight-stone for iconic role

Anson Boon went all out for his role as Johnny Rotten in the Sex Pistols new TV biopic as he dropped down to just eight-stone in a bid to fully embody the singer

The Guardian - UK

Devo: ‘Richard Branson almost killed us in the Jamaican mountains’

Gerard Casale and Mark Mothersbaugh on being bombarded by hippies at Knebworth in 1978, being told off by Neil Young and their unreleased jam sessions with Bowie and Eno in Cologne

Evening Standard

Pistol: Release date confirmed for Danny Boyle’s Disney+ Sex Pistols series

The six-part series charts the band’s tumultuous journey to punk stardom

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