The Filth and the Fury - The Official Companion to the Fine Line Features Documentary Film

Temple, Julien; Sex Pistols

ISBN 10: 0312264941 / ISBN 13: 9780312264949

Published by St. Martin's Press, New York, USA, 2000

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First Edition / First Print (number line on copyright page 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1). Paperback copy, no dustjacket as issued. 133pp. B/w photographs throughout. Not library copy, no creasing to spine, no inscriptions. (60/7).

Seller Inventory # ABE-1725191701710

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Filth and the Fury - The Official Companion to the Fine Line Features Documentary Film
• Publisher: St. Martin's Press, New York, USA
• Publication Date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0312264941
• ISBN 13: 9780312264949
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket

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Synopsis

The official companion to the Fine Line Features documentary film.

The Sex Pistols burst onto the music scene in 1976 and smashed up everything they touched. Their revolutionary sound energized disaffected youth worldwide while their larger-than-life singer, John Lydon (aka Johnny Rotten), and bass player, Sid Vicious, captured headlines throughout the Pistols' twenty-six-month reign as the lads who created punk.

For the first time, John Lydon, Paul Cook, Glen Matlock, Steve Jones, and Sid Vicious tell their story together in their own words through new interviews and archival material. Raw and engaging, The Filth and the Fury captures the emotions and egos that fueled the Pistols' rise to fame and ultimately brought them down.

Dive from the stage into The Filth and the Fury.

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"I was stealing all the equipment way before we attempted to put the band together...that was my connection to the music. I couldnt play anything, but that was my way of getting involved in the music." -Steve Jones
"My Sex Pistols audition began with them trying to get me drunk. Bad mistake. Im from Irish roots. I dont get drunk." - John Lydon
"I wasnt real impressed with America until I got to Frisco and we met some kids and tasted smack there. Its really fucking good. You should try it sometime." - Sid Vicious
"Steve and Paul are a pair of sheep. Theyre terrified of anything to do with drugs or, you know, blah-blah, anything like that." - Sid Vicious
"I didnt have a life. I had nothing to lose. And I was a miserable sod deep down inside. So the more havoc I created, the more I felt better at doing it because I was a tortured soul. I think fighting came through lack of musical ability. It was like Oh, this is what gets you headlines. " - Steve Jones
"I like to incite people to be violent and nasty...so I can be violent back. I like violence. It turns me on." - Sid Vicious
"In my wildest, worst nightmare fantasies, I would never have thought that English people could ever have disrespected themselves to the point where heroin was their be-all and end-all. What a loser, self-pitying bunch of fucking shit. I hate, loathe, and despise them. I despise Sid for it." - John Lydon