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Compare the Pistols history with R&RS and then come back and tell me that it's not the same template. I'm not suggesting that the film is actually based too solidly around the bands history, but the lessons 'taught' tie in pretty much with the band and the red haired tosspots rise to fame.
I'd suggest that much (if not all) was written with the power of being able to retrospectively analyse the SP's rise to be Britains most famous punk band, but that doesn't stop the lessons from being accurate, nor does it stop other bands from following that template and using it with lesser or greater degrees of success.
The problem these days is that people can see through McLaren better than they did then, and as a result tend to take anything he says with a pinch of salt. That doesn't stop from having successfully manufactured the arguably biggest band of the late 70s, does it?