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Julien Temple (born 26 November 1953 in London) is an English film, documentary and music video director. He began his career with short films featuring the Sex Pistols, and has continued with various off-beat projects, including The Great Rock And Roll Swindle, Absolute Beginners and a documentary film about Glastonbury. Temple was born into a communist family (his father Landon Temple ran Progressive Tours and was a Communist Party of Great Britain member). He is the brother of the last General Secretary of the CPGB, Nina Temple. Temple was educated at St Marylebone Grammar School, from... MORE

Julien Temple (born 26 November 1953 in London) is an English film, documentary and music video director. He began his career with short films featuring the Sex Pistols, and has continued with various off-beat projects, including The Great Rock And Roll Swindle, Absolute Beginners and a documentary film about Glastonbury. Temple was born into a communist family (his father Landon Temple ran Progressive Tours and was a Communist Party of Great Britain member). He is the brother of the last General Secretary of the CPGB, Nina Temple. Temple was educated at St Marylebone Grammar School, from which he was expelled, William Ellis School and King's College, Cambridge. He grew up with little interest in film until he discovered the works of French anarchist director Jean Vigo when he was a student at Cambridge. This, along with his interest in the early punk scene in London in 1976 led to his friendship with The Sex Pistols, leading him to document many of their early gigs. His first 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 of short clips from television interviews and gigs. This led to Temple making LESS