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 · Jun 1, 2022
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 · Jun 1, 2022
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… Los Angeles Times · May 31, 2022
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 · May 31, 2022
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 · May 31, 2022
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 · May 31, 2022
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 · May 30, 2022
Sex Pistols Johnny Rotten swears during live This Morning interview There was "fruity language" to kick off the Jubilee week thanks to Sex Pistol's John Lydon's appearance on ITV today Chronicle Live · May 30, 2022
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 · May 30, 2022
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 Daily Mirror · May 30, 2022
‘I’ve seen bedsheets with my face on them’: Thomas Brodie-Sangster on obsessive fans, Love Actually and the Sex Pistols The actor became famous at 13 in Richard Curtis’s yuletide romance. Now 32, he talks about playing Malcolm McLaren, the success of The Queen’s Gambit and coming to terms with not playing Ron Weasley The Guardian - UK · May 30, 2022
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 Evening Standard · May 24, 2022
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. Daily Mirror · May 21, 2022
Capturing the anarchy in the Sex Pistols LONDON: “Are we doing any spitting?” asked a man in the crowd at the 100 Club, a small, red-walled underground space, redolent of spilled beer, cigarette smoke and a thousand lost nights, just off London’s Oxford Street. Bangkok Post · May 21, 2022
The Guardian - UK · May 20, 2022 ‘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 · May 18, 2022 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
Daily Mirror · May 16, 2022 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"
The Independent UK · May 16, 2022 Vivienne Westwood says John Lydon ‘didn’t have any more ideas’ after Sex Pistols split Fashion designer features in the new documentary ‘Wake Up Punk’
Nottingham Post · May 8, 2022 '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"
Daily Mirror · May 5, 2022 First look at Danny Boyle’s Sex Pistols TV series as Disney+ trailer promises chaos Director Danny Boyle's upcoming Sex Pistols series has seen its first trailer released on Disney Plus to the excitement of fans of the Punk Rock band.
Daily Mirror · May 3, 2022 Sex Pistols are re-releasing God Save The Queen to mark her platinum jubilee One of the world's biggest punk bands is re-issuing their track God Save The Queen to celebrate the Queen's Platinum Jubilee in June. The track was originally banned by the BBC in 1977
The Guardian - UK · May 3, 2022 Still a fascist regime? Sex Pistols’ God Save the Queen reissued to mark platinum jubilee Once-banned punk rock anthem finally has a chance to reach No 1 after it missed out in 1977 during the Queen’s silver jubilee
Daily Mirror · Apr 25, 2022 Sex Pistols' John Lydon threatens to sue producers of upcoming miniseries about band Sex Pistols frontman John Lydon has threatened to sue the producers of FX miniseries Pistol - expected to be released next month - which is an upcoming show about the British punk band
Evening Standard · Apr 20, 2022 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 · Apr 14, 2022 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