In June 1977, the same day the crowds gathered in front of Buckingham Palace to cheer the Queen on her silver jubilee, the Sex Pistols were cruising down the Thames on a boat.

They shouted their songs in front of parliament until the police turned off the power.

The action was staged as a provocative advertising campaign for the anti-national anthem "God Save the Queen" by the punk rock band.

With their subversive anger at the establishment, the Sex Pistols scandalized the public at the time.

Although the BBC and the Independent Broadcasting Authority banned the sarcastic portrayal of the Queen as the inhuman head of a fascist regime, "God Save the Queen" shot to second place on the charts.

The song is now considered one of the most influential songs of all time.

The plate cover with the image of the queen, whose eyes and mouth are sealed with newspaper letters in the style of ransom demands, is also famous.

And director Danny Boyle says the band changed British society and culture forever.

No wonder that the Netflix series "The Crown" wanted to incorporate the scandal over the Sex Pistols into the episode about the 1977 crown anniversary.

As recently revealed in a lawsuit relating to a six-part television series Boyles about the punk band, Johnny Rotten, the front man whose real name is John Lydon, was unwilling to play.

For no money in the world

Lydon told the court he was reluctant to have the series negatively distort the jubilee. Accordingly, the queen sat desperately in her carriage, while the Sex Pistols caused chaotic scenes between the crowd and bottle-throwing punks. "That's a lie," said Lydon. On that day, only the Sex Pistols protested against the royal family. "The makers of 'The Crown' can mess up the story as much as they want, but not using my name." That is not worth the money in the world.

“The Crown”, however, as a fictional series, is less squeamish when it comes to dealing with the truth. In the episode in question, the Queen looks through a window of her carriage and sees the heir to the throne struggling under the weight of the bearskin cap on horseback, as if to confirm the line from "God save the Queen": "There is no future in England's dreams."