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The Great Rock ‘n’ Roll Swindle (1980) is a fictional “documentary” (a “mockumentary”) film directed by Julien Temple about the seminal British punk rock band Sex Pistols. It starred the band: singer Johnny Rotten as “The Collaborator”, guitarist Steve Jones as “The Crook”, bassist Sid Vicious as “The Gimmick”, drummer Paul Cook as “The Tea-Maker”, and the band’s infamous manager, Malcolm McLaren, as “The Embezzler”. It also features original bassist Glen Matlock, who appears briefly in some live scenes.

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Soundtrack

The Great Rock ‘n’ Roll Swindle was also the name of the Sex Pistols’ second album (and a song from that album). Though billed as a Sex Pistols album, it is actually the soundtrack of the film, and also includes performances by several other artists.


Soundtrack listing

Version 1

  1. “God Save the Queen” (Johnny Rotten, Steve Jones, Glen Matlock, Paul Cook)
  2. “Johnny B. Goode”/”Road Runner” (Chuck Berry)/(Jonathan Richman)
  3. “Black Arabs” (AKA Disco Medley): “Anarchy in the UK”/”God Save the Queen”/”Pretty Vacant”/”No One is Innocent” (Rotten, Jones, Matlock, Cook, Ronnie Biggs)
  4. “Anarchy in the UK” (Rotten, Jones, Matlock, Cook)
  5. “Substitute” (Pete Townshend)
  6. “Don’t Gimme No Lip” (Thomas/Richards)
  7. “(I’m Not Your) Steppin’ Stone” (Tommy Boyce, Bobby Hart)
  8. “Anarchie Pour Le UK” (Rotten, Jones, Matlock, Cook)
  9. “Belsen Was a Gas” (Rotten, Jones, Sid Vicious, Cook)
  10. “Belsen Vos A Gas” (Rotten, Jones, Vicious, Cook)
  11. “Silly Thing” (Jones, Cook)
  12. “My Way” (Paul Anka, Claude François, Jacques Revaux)
  13. “I Wanna Be Me” (Rotten, Jones, Matlock, Cook)
  14. “Something Else” (Eddie Cochran, Sharon Sheeley)
  15. “Rock Around the Clock” (Max C. Freedman, James E. Myers)
  16. “Lonely Boy” (Jones, Cook)
  17. “No One Is Innocent” (Jones, Cook, Biggs)
  18. “C’mon Everybody” (Eddie Cochran, Jerry Capehart)
  19. “EMI” (Rotten, Jones, Matlock, Cook)
  20. “The Great Rock ‘n’ Roll Swindle” (Jones, Cook, Julien Temple)
  21. “Friggin’ in the Riggin’” (Traditional; arranged by Jones)
  22. “You Need Hands” (Max Bygraves)
  23. “Who Killed Bambi” (Edward Tudor-Pole/Vivienne Westwood)

Version 2

  1. “God Save the Queen” (Symphony)
  2. “Rock Around the Clock”
  3. “Johnny B. Goode”
  4. “Road Runner”
  5. “Black Arabs”
  6. “Anarchy in the UK” (New Version)
  7. “Watcha Gonna Do About It?”
  8. “Who Killed Bambi?”
  9. “Silly Thing”
  10. “Substitute”
  11. “Don’t Give Me No Lip Child”
  12. “I’m Not Your Stepping Stone”
  13. “Lonely Boy”
  14. “Something Else”
  15. “Anarchie Pour Le UK”
  16. “Belsen Was a Gas” (live in San Francisco)
  17. “Belsen Was a Gas” (with Ronnie Biggs)
  18. “No One is Innocent”
  19. “My Way”
  20. “C’mon Everybody”
  21. “EMI” (Orchestra)
  22. “The Great Rock ‘n’ Roll Swindle”
  23. “You Need Hands”
  24. “Friggin in the Riggin’”


See also

  • The Filth and the Fury
  • Who Killed Bambi?


External links

  • DVD review
  • The Great Rock and Roll Swindle remembered by McLaren employee Sue Steward

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