Berlin Wall and the Sex Pistols (1978)

01/01/1978

Overview

Through her work for the magazine Search and Destroy in San Francisco, Mondini-VanLoo met several prominent punk bands (including the Sex Pistols) whom she interviews and films. Intrigued by Holidays in the Sun, Johnny Rotten’s song about the Berlin Wall, the next time she is in Berlin she clandestinely films the wall and includes edited footage of the Sex Pistol’s last concert with Sid Vicious at Winterland in San Francisco.