
7.5
The story of a band of spotty, noisy, working-class kids with “no future,” who shook the boring, corrupt Establishment to its core, threatened to bring down the government and changed music and culture forever.
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1Episode 1Track 1: The Cloak of Invisibility
45 min
Desperate to escape the bleak future that society has decreed for him, charismatic Steve Jones convinces Malcolm McLaren to manage his band, The Swankers. But Steve discovers that his “Cloak of Invisibility” cannot shield him from the audience’s gaze.
2Episode 2Track 2: Rotten
50 min
As Steve grasps his final chance and attempts to learn guitar in five days, a fury named Johnny Rotten arrives on the scene and the Sex Pistols are born.
3Episode 3Track 3: Bodies
54 min
As Steve and Chrissie Hynde begin to make more than just music, the Pistols begin to wreak anarchy in the U.K. and Johnny Rotten takes deeper inspiration from a grieving young woman.
4Episode 4Track 4: Pretty Vaaayc**t
56 min
The idyllic moment where success is not yet fame is obliterated when the band shock the nation out of its torpor. The media frenzy causes egos to explode. Steve is emotionally blackmailed by Malcom into replacing bassist Glen Matlock with Sid Vicious.
5Episode 5Track 5: Nancy and Sid
55 min
As Nancy and Sid's love ignites, Sid becomes increasingly lost to heroin and violence. A plan is hatched to get rid of Nancy, but on a riverboat stunt during the Queen's Jubilee to promote "God Save the Queen," chaos takes hold.
6Episode 6Track 6: Who Killed Bambi?
52 min
Malcolm decides that the Sex Pistols have become too much like a rock band, so he must blow them up. Johnny leaves the band, and a Sid becomes lead singer. Nancy is found murdered in New York City, and Sid is the main suspect.

Toby Wallace
Steve Jones

Anson Boon
John Lydon

Christian Lees
Glen Matlock

Sydney Chandler
Chrissie Hynde

Talulah Riley
Vivienne Westwood

Maisie Williams
Jordan

Emma Appleton
Nancy Spungen

Thomas Brodie-Sangster
Malcolm McLaren
Jacob Slater
Paul Cook
7.8