Animation City | Multi-cel composite for The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle, c. 1978

Animation City

Multi-cel composite with painted background for The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle, c. 1978

(650 x 270mm.), framed

Panning shot showing Johnny Rotten walking up the street into the alley off Oxford where he was attacked. This incident took place over Jubilee weekend, 1977, in the car park of the Pegasus pub, near the Wessex recording studios [England’s Dreaming, pp.365- 366]. 

Subsequent to his split from the band, John Lydon refused to take part in the film. As a result Glitterbest decided to construct a small number of animated sequences to aid in the reconstruction of the story of the Sex Pistols. Apart from short sequences of concert footage Johnny Rotten only appears in the film as an animated cartoon character.