The Great Rock ’n’ Roll Swindle
film by Temple [1980]
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history of the Sex Pistols
- In the Sex Pistols
…the film project that became The Great Rock ’n’ Roll Swindle (1980), McLaren issued records with an increasingly uncontrollable Vicious as the vocalist. A cover version of Eddie Cochran’s “C’mon Everybody” became the group’s best-selling single following Vicious’s fatal heroin overdose in New York City in February 1979 while out…
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Vicious
- In Sid Vicious: Career with the Sex Pistols
…a sinister sneer—for the film The Great Rock ’n’ Roll Swindle (1980).
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