I’m laughing at it now, but at the time it was all a struggle. When did your parents begin supporting your music career? It is and it’s a bloody strange thing to spend an important part of your childhood analyzing yourself and finding out who you are and what are you. It’s one of the bad perks of being unpopular and infamous.” “It’s really unpleasant when someone else has rewritten your life for you. “If anyone is even the slightest bit interested in my life, here’s the research rather than the hearsay and fabrication,” Lydon says of why he wrote it. Where his last book – 1994’s Rotten: No Irish, No Blacks, No Dogs – focused mostly on his time in the Pistols, the new tome places his whole life in context in his own, often-hilarious words. The 500-page-plus monster covers everything from his youth in London’s Finsbury Park neighborhood, where he survived a bout with meningitis at an early age, to the decades he has spent fronting post-punk experimenters Public Image Ltd., who are putting out a new record likely this fall. The singer has just published his second memoir, Anger Is an Energy: My Life Uncensored. It’s a fitting reply since today’s subject happens to be the entirety of Lydon’s life. When Rolling Stone asks how he’s doing, the 59-year-old singer exclaims, in a dry, British snarl, “I’m alive!” "The more people try and put you down.the higher you go.John Lydon, the man who horrified the world in the late Seventies as Sex Pistols ringleader Johnny Rotten, is in an especially good mood today. I don't know what they're on about, and they never knew themselves and that was the most disgusting part about it." Q: "What about the other bands that have made it in terms of record sales? THE DAMNED, THE CLASH, THE STRANGLERS."Ī: "They can all go to hell. Q: "Let's mention a few names then, of the punk bands that we know - do you have any respect for any of them?Ī: "THE SLITS. "There are a lot of bands that are really worth their weight in gold, but they're the bands that, like, the press don't want to know about.they're the ones they run away from." His guard is up to be sure and he's still the consummate showman putting on a show, but when the conversation turns briefly to money and business and his personal finances and when the interviewer compares his songwriting to Captain 's interesting, that's all. Johnny Rotten, interviewed on Radio KNOTTS in 1977, sounds more honest and personal here than on perhaps any clip/s I've heard or seen. And I don't say this to try to initiate a conversation about what is or what isn't, more like an acknowledgement of relevance. Originally ripped by Terminal Escape, posted on February 23, 2020Īnother snippet of a weird past that is more than just 43 years old.it's worlds and lifetimes removed from anything that we call or consider punk in 2020.
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