Danny Boyle’s much-anticipated FX Sex Pistols biopic Pistol has run into the moshpit of a band at war, as it has emerged that John Lydon (better known by his stage name Johnny Rotten) wants to block use of the band’s music in the series.Sex Pistols guitarist Steve Jones and drummer Paul Cook have taken Lydon to the High Court in London in a bid to resolve the dispute.
Jones and Cook are in favor of the music featuring the in the series, which is based on the former’s memoir Lonely Boy: Tales From A Sex Pistol.But Lydon is being typically pugnacious in his position, exposing the bitter and fractious relationship between a band that helped usher in a punk revolution in Britain in the 1970s.
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