The Sex Pistols’s bassist memoir to be made into a documentary film

The legendary English punk rock band The Sex Pistols are now getting their own documentary film which is based on the memoir by one of its founding members, Glen Matlock.
Based on Matlock’s 1990 tell-all novel ‘I Was A Teenage Sex Pistol’, the film will follow Matlock’s journey as a Pistols founding member and a musician who wrote 10 of the 12 iconic tracks on their only studio album, Never Mind the Bollocks as well as provided bass and backing vocals on Anarchy in the U.K, before leaving the band in 1977. As the description goes, the documentary feature will chart the Pistols’ rise to global infamy with an honest, insightful account of a group of malcontents, determined to change the music business and to attack hypocrisy and stale conventions in society at large, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
In his book, Matlock had described the mind-set of the UK in the early ’70s and divulged a mine of information, including details surrounding the “lost” original Sex Pistol Wally Nightingale, guitarist Steve Jones’ thievery, the search for a singer, the exploding punk scene and a bleak backdrop providing a contrast to the excitement and energy of band manager Malcolm McLaren’s shop.
The bass player’s contributions to The Sex Pistols have been downplayed over the years, especially by Jones, although drummer Paul Cook later asserted that Matlock had indeed written most of the songs onNever Mind the Bollocks. Even the terms of Matlock’s departure from the band have been disputed as McLaren had falsely stated at the time that Matlock was “thrown out” for liking The Beatles. As well as detailing the contents of the memoir, the documentary is set to contain never-been-told truths about the Pistols from the band members and exclusive interviews. (IANS)