After chatting with McLaren at Sex, they saw the band at a couple of late February gigs.
Though the performance drove the band members to laughter, McLaren convinced them to start rehearsing with Lydon.
Although the Sex Pistols were not the first punk band, the few recordings that were released during the band's brief initial existence were singularly catalytic expressions of the punk movement.
The Sex Pistols film was completed by Temple, who received sole credit for the script after McLaren had his name taken off the production.
While the band members and their equipment were hustled down a side stairwell, McLaren, Westwood, and many of the band's entourage were arrested.
According to journalist and former McLaren employee Phil Strongman, around this time the band adopted the name QT Jones and the Sex Pistols (or QT Jones & His Sex Pistols, as one Rhodes-designed T-shirt put it).
On 8 October 1976, the major record label EMI signed the Sex Pistols to a two-year contract.
McLaren later claimed that CBS Records, which was distributing both singles, told him that the Sex Pistols were actually outselling Stewart two to one.
As McLaren fielded offers from other labels, the band went into the studio for a round of recordings with Goodman, their last with either him or Matlock.
According to Pistols tour manager Noel Monk and journalist Jimmy Guterman, Lydon was much more than "the band's mouthpiece.
(In his final onscreen scene in the film, McLaren declares that he was planning the Sex Pistols affair, "Ever since I was ten years old!
The album is completed by a couple of tracks in which other artists cover Sex Pistols classics.
