Julien Temple (born November 26, 1953 in London) is an English film, documentary and music video director. He is most famous for his work featuring the Sex Pistols.
Temple grew up with little interest in film until he discovered the works of director Jean Vigo when he was a student at King's College, Cambridge. This, along with his interest in the early punk scene in London in 1976 led to his friendship with The Sex Pistols, and he began to docum...
more
Julien Temple (born November 26, 1953 in London) is an English film, documentary and music video director. He is most famous for his work featuring the Sex Pistols.
Temple grew up with little interest in film until he discovered the works of director Jean Vigo when he was a student at King's College, Cambridge. This, along with his interest in the early punk scene in London in 1976 led to his friendship with The Sex Pistols, and he began to document many of their early gigs.
But instead of punk rock, heavy metal came first. His first film was an adaptation of the Samson and Delilah bible story filmed with Bruce Dickinson (Iron Maiden lead singer) in the band Samson at the Rainbow Theatre in London. It was filmed and directed by him. The feature lasts approximately 15 minutes and was shown in cinemas prior to Hazel O'Connor's Breaking Glass in 1980.
His second film was a short documentary called Sex Pistols Number 1, which set out to show the rise of the band from 1976-1977 in a series...
less
