Steve Jones talks about bringing 'Pistol' to the small screen, his relationship with Lydon, Pistols drummer Paul Cook, and bassist Glen Matlock, and his recent health scares
comes in. Adapted from Jones’ book, the six-part series chronicles the chaotic, brief life of the Sex Pistols and the London punk scene of which the band was the epicenter. It also tells the tale of the tumultuous relationship between the bandmembers and their anarchic manager, Malcolm McLaren, and his partner, Vivienne Westwood, whose shop SEX was ground zero for punk in mid-’70s London.—Boon’s turn is beyond respectful.
And what about Generation Sex, your band with Billy Idol and Tony James from Generation X and fellow Sex Pistol Paul Cook? I saw you before the pandemic and it was amazing. Are there any plans to do anything with that? It was surreal that he was interested in doing it, to be honest. I mean, originally, we were looking for a director to do a movie. It wasn’t originally conceived as a TV show. We had a few bites here and there, but nothing we were excited about, really. And then, all of a sudden, we got the writer Craig Pearce involved. He came and visited me in L.A., we hung out and then we did some Skypes, and from the book and that he wrote a lot of it, and that got Dan’s interest.
Listen, every interview I’ve been doing for the last three weeks, all they want to talk about is whatWell, I want to give you the opportunity to tell it from your point of view. As you said, you could not have told this story without actual Sex Pistols music, the same as how the scenes that feature Hawkwind or Bowie wouldn’t have worked the same way without those tunes.
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