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Sex Pistols show's rock 'n' roll swindle

Ever get the feeling you've been cheated? "Pistol" boasts a great premise and cast, but skimps on the insights

Salon

Review: You think you know the Sex Pistols. This new TV show tries to deliver a corrective

It's been 44 years since the Sex Pistols broke up and only a couple more since they played their first gig, having produced only one actual album in their lifetime. And yet they seem very much with us; the best of their music continues to sound massively huge, outside of…

Los Angeles Times

The Sex Pistols rock again in Danny Boyle's FX show 'Pistol'

Anson Boon got so into playing Johnny Rotten that he hurt himself rocking too hard.

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Disney+ Pistol: Everything you need to know about new biopic series - including cast, release date

The band’s singer Johnny Rotten has criticised the show

Wales Online

Pistol on Disney+: A guide to the real-life punks who brought anarchy to the UK

The new Danny Boyle TV show is out today

Evening Standard

Pistol review – Danny Boyle’s wonky Sex Pistols show is like Punk: the Panto!

Johnny Rotten is the Artful Dodger crossed with an animated rodent in Boyle’s frustrating series that feels so cartoonish it falls totally flat

The Guardian - UK

Pistol review: Danny Boyle’s series never achieves the rollicking kineticism we associate with the Sex Pistols

Toby Wallace leads the cast of this series about the wild rise and incendiary fall of Britain’s most notorious and fractious punk rock band

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Sex Pistols' John Lydon slams Disney Plus' Sex Pistols TV series as 'pile of nonsense'

Sex Pistols frontman John Lydon - aka Johnny Rotten - has been open about his dislike of the upcoming Disney Plus series, Pistol, which is set to air at the end of the month

Daily Mirror

Pistol on Disney+ review: Danny Boyle’s series on the Sex Pistols can’t help but turn very dark

The grim realities of this story mean that the series is tonally uneven, but it’s never boring

Evening Standard

Sex Pistols drama charts rise and fall of punk band who mocked the Queen at Jubilee

They may have only last two and a half years before self-destructing but decades on the Sex Pistols' punk legacy lives on in an era eerily similar.

Daily Mirror

Capturing the anarchy in the Sex Pistols

LONDON: “Are we doing any spitting?” asked a man in the crowd at the 100 Club, a small, red-walled underground space, redolent of spilled beer, cigarette smoke and a thousand lost nights, just off London’s Oxford Street.

Bangkok Post

‘I want Johnny Rotten to attack it!’ Danny Boyle on his shocking Sex Pistols saga

How do you make a sympathetic TV show about the most cancelled, most banned, most shamelessly vile band ever – when your cast have barely heard of them and the frontman is taking you to court? The director reveals all

The Guardian - UK

The unusual and unexpected from national motorsport this week

From a rare Alfa to an F2 car returning to action that spent a while hanging on an apartment wall, here are some interesting stories from the world of national motorsport

Autosport

Judge allows Georgia voting rights trial to continue

ATLANTA — The Georgia voting rights case led by Fair Fight Action has survived a midtrial attempt to dismiss after a month of testimony.

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Daily Mirror

John Lydon takes another swipe at Sex Pistols TV show, claiming it is too sleazy

Sex Pistols TV show John Lydon, aka Johnny Rotten, has said the upcoming Disney+ show about his band is "upsetting as a lot of it has sexual connotations which are dubious at best"

Wales Online

The town being made to move at 20mph now living with chaos, congestion and abuse

In 2023 every town and village in Wales will have 20mph zones - but a Welsh Government trial has seen drivers sat for hours with their heads in their hands

Tribune News Service

Georgia seeks dismissal of Fair Fight voting rights case

ATLANTA — Voting rights groups failed to prove in court that Georgia’s election policies disenfranchise voters, an attorney for the state told a federal judge Thursday, asking him to dismiss the case one month into a trial.

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Judge in Georgia voting rights trial is asked to change ‘exact match’

ATLANTA — Voting rights groups rested their case Wednesday in a trial challenging Georgia’s election policies, calling for a federal judge to order changes to voter registration and absentee ballot procedures that hindered some voters.

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The Guardian - UK

Car breakdowns: drivers switched between trucks in hours-long ordeals

The arrival of a rescue vehicle is a welcome sight for stranded drivers. But that may not be the end of your problems

Daily Mirror

First look at Danny Boyle’s Sex Pistols TV series as Disney+ trailer promises chaos

Director Danny Boyle's upcoming Sex Pistols series has seen its first trailer released on Disney Plus to the excitement of fans of the Punk Rock band.

Autosport

Group C beasts battle at Donington Park Historic Festival as Silverstone hosts 750MC

Autosport

The weird and wonderful of club motorsport this week

A very unusual Sports 2000 machine and some interesting cars in action at the Classic Sports Car Club's Thruxton meeting are among the weird and wonderful stories from last weekend's national motorsport events

Daily Mirror

Sex Pistols' John Lydon threatens to sue producers of upcoming miniseries about band

Sex Pistols frontman John Lydon has threatened to sue the producers of FX miniseries Pistol - expected to be released next month - which is an upcoming show about the British punk band

The Guardian - UK

Derry Girl Dylan Llewellyn: ’I call things wee when they’re not even small’

As the final Derry Girls series airs, its ‘wee English fella’ recalls his transition from schooldays struggling with dyslexia to being an honorary Irishman

Autosport

The weird and wonderful from national racing this week

From unusual creations to bizarre cockpit woes and a new lap record holder, there were plenty of interesting occurrences in the world of club motorsport last weekend

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