Review: Though 'Pistol' is watchable right to the end—thanks to its visual brio and some fine performances—the series ultimately feels hollow.
You can see the dilemma Boyle and Pearce faced: recreate first-wave U.K. punk as it truly was or remodel the past in line with contemporary values and expectations. Apparently McLaren did very briefly toy with the idea of incorporating Hynde into the Sex Pistols—but as Westwood recalled in her own memoir, “in the end, for Malcolm, his ‘gang’ had to be a gang of boys.
, inspired by an actual rapist who had been recently at large who wore a terrifying leather mask. Equal opportunity outrage-merchants, they also designed a shirt inspired by Valerie Solanas’sand scrawled words from her hilarious, man-hating tirade across the store’s walls—but in truth were probably more taken with Solanas’s infamy as would-be Warhol-assassin than her critique of the patriarchy.
In real life, they next reconnected in court, when Jones joined Rotten in his lawsuit against McLaren—accusing him of mismanagement and diversion of the group’s earnings into the filmMcLaren eventually lost, and the band received approximately £1 million in an out-of-court settlement. Decades later, they regrouped as a reformed Sex Pistols seemingly intent on milking the punk nostalgia market with tours and festival appearances.
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