Digital Release Announced For “I Was A Teenage Sex Pistol” Documentary

VMI Worldwide have announce that the music documentary, I Was A Teenage Sex Pistol, will be available to buy or rent on digital platforms in the US from the 26th May, with pre-orders beginning on May 12th on Apple TV. Based on the acclaimed tell-all memoir by Sex Pistols’ founding member Glen Matlock, the film offers an honest, insightful, and long-overdue account of one of the most influential and controversial punk bands of all time. Audiences will now have the chance to hear the story from a man whose creative contributions, essential to the band’s revolutionary sound and musical legacy, have historically been downplayed.

“Why don’t you check out the US release of my documentary, I Was A Teenage Sex Pistol, loosely based on the still available book of the same name I wrote in the ‘90s? It tells the tale of my contribution to the band, which I think without it the group wouldn’t have had the success it had. For anybody interested in the birth of British punk and its effect on the then wider music scene, I’d suggest it’s essential viewing, but then I would say that!” (Glen Matlock)

The film follows Glen Matlock’s journey from the band’s formation through their explosive rise to global infamy. He co-wrote ten of the twelve songs on their only studio album, Never Mind the Bollocks, Here’s the Sex Pistols, underscoring his central role in shaping the band’s sound and legacy. Through the film, experience the band’s rise to global infamy with an insider’s honest account of a group of malcontents, determined to change the music business and to attack the hypocrisy and stale conventions in British society at large. Matlock describes in detail the mindset of the UK in the early ‘70s and divulges a wealth of never-been-told truths: the search for a singer, Steve Jones‘ nefarious activities, the exploding punk scene, and an bleak English backdrop that sits in contrast to events unfolding around Malcolm McLaren and Vivienne Westwood‘s notious shop, SEX.

To provide a complete perspective on the era, the film features an impressive roster of rock icons and contemporaries including members of Sex Pistols, Blondie, Generation X, MC5, NOFX, Spandau Ballet, The Damned, Doctors of Madness, Stray Cats, Bazooka Joe, The Vandals, The Dead Boys and LA Guns. The documentary’s debut arrives as the Sex Pistols prepare for an extensive 50th Anniversary World Tour. This global trek serving as a definitive celebration of five decades since the band first ignited a movement that reshaped music and outsider culture worldwide. You can view the Sex Pistols world tour dates and purchase tickets here.