Sex Pistols are probably “gone for good” following sync deal bust up, Paul Cook confirms

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John Lydon’s legal rep yesterday told the High Court in London that the Sex Pistols have always worked on the assumption that licensing deals will only be done with unanimous approval of the band’s members, and therefore an old band agreement that says only majority approval is required should be set aside.Mark Cunningham presented his closing arguments at the end of a lively court dispute between Lydon and his former bandmates Paul Cook and Steve Jones.

CMU’s Andy Malt and Chris Cooke review key events in music and the music business from the last week, including The Sex Pistols’ appearance in the High Court in a dispute over a sync deal to include the band’s music in a new show directed by Danny Boyle based on the memoir of guitarist Steve Jones, plus Sony Music’s lawsuit against sportswear brand Gymshark accusing it of using unlicensed music in social media promos for years.SECTION TIMES01: Streaming royalties (00:12:49)02: Sainsbury’s

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John Lydon told the High Court in London yesterday that legal documents “terrify” him, that he didn’t understand what a Sex Pistols band agreement he signed in 1988 was all about, and that – despite said agreement allowing for majority decisions to stand – “unanimity is what has made this band as a business tick over”.

LONDON -- Former Sex Pistols singer John Lydon said Wednesday that he’s “heart and soul” against letting the band’s songs be used in an upcoming television drama about the pioneering punk outfit, dismissing the TV series as “nonsense.”Lydon, formerly known as Johnny Rotten, is being sued by guitarist Steve Jones and drummer Paul Cook, who want the songs to feature in “Pistol,” a Disney-backed series based on a memoir by Jones.Lydon says the songs can’t be licensed without his consent, but Cook

Sex Pistols frontman John Lydon has hit out at a contract at the centre of a legal dispute between him and his ex-bandmates, likening it to “slavery”.Lydon, best known as Johnny Rotten, is currently being sued by former bandmates Paul Cook and Steve Jones so that the group’s iconic back catalogue can be used in Pistol, Danny Boyle’s upcoming TV show about the band’s trailblazing history.Cook and Jones have said a band member agreement (BMA) was formed in 1998 to enable licensing decisions to be

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Sex Pistols drummer Paul Cook has said that the band is “probably gone for good” amid the ongoing legal dispute with John Lydon.Lydon (aka Johnny Rotten) is being sued by two of his former bandmates – Cook and guitarist Steve Jones – after refusing to license the group’s music for inclusion in Danny Boyle’s biopic series, Pistol.The Pistols’ original bassist Glen Matlock and the estate of late bassist Sid Vicious both support their music being featured in Boyle’s show.

A legal squabble between members of the Sex Pistols reached the High Court in London yesterday. Officially it’s a dispute over whether or not John Lydon can block the licensing of the band’s music for a new TV series based on the memoir of his former bandmate Steve Jones.

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Danny Boyle’s much-anticipated FX Sex Pistols biopic Pistol has run into the moshpit of a band at war, as it has emerged that John Lydon (better known by his stage name Johnny Rotten) wants to block use of the band’s music in the series.

Sex Pistols frontman John Lydon is being sued by two former bandmates after refusing to license the group’s music for inclusion in Danny Boyle’s biopic series, Pistols.Guitarist Steve Jones – whose 2016 memoir, Lonely Boy: Tales From a Sex Pistol, serves as the basis for the show – and drummer Paul Cook are legally challenging Lydon’s veto, with their lawyer Edmund Cullen appearing in the High Court yesterday (July 15).As per The Associated Press, Cullen said a band agreement made in 1998 stated