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The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle
1980 · Film · documentary · 103 min
Directed by Julien Temple
A rather incoherent post-breakup Sex Pistols "documentary", told from the point of view of Pistols manager Malcolm McLaren, whose (arguable) position is that the Sex Pistols in particular and punk rock in general were an elaborate scam perpetrated by him in order to make "a million pounds."
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Some argue that the Sex Pistols were a _boy band_ orchestrated by Malcolm McLaren...
> Reliably or not, Mr. McLaren explained his strategy for packaging and selling the band in the 1980 film “The Great Rock ’n’ Roll Swindle.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/09/arts/music/09mclaren.html?_r=0