When he set out to make Pistol, his rollickingly entertaining dramatic retelling of the life of legendary punk outfit the Sex Pistols, Danny Boyle had a couple of red lines. Firstly, he had to be able to use the ’70s band’s music. If the Oscar-winning director didn’t have permission to recreate onscreen God Save The Queen, Anarchy In The UK, Pretty Vacant and their argy-bargy like, Danny’s TV series would be toothless and fundamentally pointless. Remember Stardust, that Bowie biopic from last year, in which Johnny Flynn played the artist but couldn’t play his music? Exactly. But John Lydon, the artist formerly known as frontman Johnny Rotten, said no. Of course he did. He wouldn’t be a proper punk if he rolled over and said yes to the four-piece’s music being used in a ...