Edgar, Robert ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3483-8605 (2024) ‘If a bunch of ‘em tell you, it must be true.’: Lonely Boy, The Sex Pistols and Adaption. In: The Routledge Companion to the Sex Pistols. Routledge (Submitted)

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Abstract

In 2022 Danny Boyle and Craig Pearce released the TV series Pistol adapted, in part, from Steve Jones’ 2017 memoir, Lonely Boy: Tales from a Sex Pistol. This is the latest in a line of screen representations which has itself further divided the remaining members of the band. From Julien Temple’s The Great Rock ‘N’ Roll Swindle (1980) to The Filth and the Fury (2000) and beyond, attempts to tell the story of the band only serve to further perpetuate a myth rooted in 1970s newspaper headlines and footage available from the period. Steve Jones’ memoir, and memoirs from John Lydon and Glen Matlock present a darker and more intensely personal and, arguably, far less cinematic picture of the group. With a focus on Lonely Boy and Pistol, this chapter analyses the mythologising process of screen-based representations of the Sex Pistols. It also debates how memoir, as a fractured and fluid form, fits with a cut-up punk aesthetic which itself is in tension with the demands of a rock star narrative popular with film and television audiences.

Item Type:	Book Section
Status:	Submitted
Subjects:	M Music and Books on Music > ML Literature of music > ML3797-3799.5 Musical research M Music and Books on Music > ML Literature of music > ML3916-3918 Social and political aspects of music N Fine Arts > N Visual arts (General) For photography, see TR P Language and Literature > PR English literature
School/Department:	School of Humanities
URI:	https://ray.yorksj.ac.uk/id/eprint/10635

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