The Sex Pistols' secret weapon wasn't Johnny Rotten — it was their forgotten first producer.
The '70s work of the late Dave Goodman leads US directly into the shocking true story of the birth - and initial success - of the Sex Pistols, the most explosive Rock 'N' Roll band ever (and the group for whom Dave G was the first serious producer). a band that still shock and thrill, in equal measure, some 30 years later. The filmmakers were lucky enough to know Dave back then and luckier still in getting other key figures to talk about him and the Pistols for this film - including manager Malcolm McLaren, Pistol Glen Matlock, photographer Ray Stevenson, film-maker Don Letts, broadcaster/label bigwig Tony Wilson and many others. Their words make up not just the bizarre tale of Dave and the Pistols but also the full flavor of what Punk, and Britain in the '70s, was really like. A time when young people still genuinely believed that music could - and would - change the world. A time of hope. A very different time to now...
Production
Rare Goodman demos that history nearly buried forever.
Direction
Insider access turns fan tribute into genuine oral history.
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Dave Goodman literally lived with the band before recording them — his Chelsea squat was Pistols headquarters.
This was shot just before Malcolm McLaren died in 2010, making his interviews here some of his final recorded thoughts on the band he both created and exploited.
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