Talk:The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle

Coined
The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle was not coined by Jello Biafra it was the title of a "rockumentary" produced by Malcolm McLaren about his vision of the Sex Pistols,and their story it was released in 1979 and has an accompanied soundtrack released in the same year under the same title.

It would therefore have been impossible for Jello to coin this term in the mid 90's


 * I agree - do you fancy changing the article? Secretlondon 19:51, Dec 27, 2003 (UTC)

On VHS
The film got a home video release long before 1993, I hired it from my local video shop in about 1984. --SimonUK 15:20, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

Sting
"However, Sting, bassist and lead singer of the band, The Police has a bit part."

No he doesn't. He's only in out-takes, not the finished film.

Starkers
"The film also features copious amounts of full-frontal nudity (both male and female)."

Copious? Hardly.

And the above poster is right about VHS release dates. I have it on VHS here from 1982 (Virgin Video) in one of those old "big" VHS library cases. Sting has a bit part as a gay musician — Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.147.165.58 (talk) 14:49, 20 July 2013 (UTC)

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Russ
In his autobiography, John Lydon (Johnny Rotten) alleges that Russ Meyer was slated to direct, and had even started filming, before he was replaced by Julien Temple. Maikel (talk) 08:33, 7 June 2012 (UTC)


 * Yeah its true Russ Meyer did that, there is a Jonathan Ross The Incredibley Strange Film Show programme made for Channel 4 in UK where he interviews Meyer about it, don't know if it's on You Tube or not. the footage features the guy who plays BJ in the Temple film shooting Bambi with a crossbow if I recall correctly. The original title of the film was to be 'Who Killed Bambi?', as you probably know. The original script written by Roger Ebert(originally titled Anarchy in the UK) was to play like a punk version of the Beatles film Help! (1964), filming lasted two days before production was halted due to financial problems. There is a full transcript of Roger Ebert's script on Eberts blog page if you wanna read it, hope this is of some help? Also see wikipedia page Who Killed Bambi? 1978 film81.111.126.82 (talk) 01:01, 1 August 2012 (UTC)

Did the Great Rock'n'Roll Swindle movie make any money?
Usually these Wikipedia film sites tell you how much a movie cost to make and how much money it made. This Wikipedia site has a biased P.O.V. that implies only Malcolm McClaren would have made money and publicity out of the movie. 10:39, 15 May 2016 (UTC)~ — Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.94.57.122 (talk)

Martin Boorman?!?!?
The 'so-called' Martin Boorman in the movie (uncredited in this article(don't know why), who played along with Steve Jones, Paul Cook and Ronnie Biggest, singing Biggs' rendition of 'Belsen was a Gas' in Brazil, could NO WAY have been the REAL Martin Boorman, as the real Martin Boorman's remains were found in GERMANY a number of years after the end if World War II....ANOTHER con, Malcom(R.i.P)? 2A00:23C5:DF17:A201:4835:90FF:FEA7:ECEC (talk) 00:09, 15 August 2021 (UTC)                                                                     Well no the Martin Boorman actor is a Russ Meyer thing see his film Supervixens for example