![]() ![]() ![]() 'We were more like Pinkie and his gang from Brighton Rock,' he writes at one point of his teenage friends. ![]() He was, and remains, a man of contradictory impulses, fascinated by football hooliganism and Oscar Wilde.Īnd as for the other influences. From time to time, you are given a glimpse of Lydon's otherness, not least his pathological unwillingness to embrace any orthodoxy, be it punk rebellion or celebrity conformity. ![]() It's a story that's been told many times but not as scurrilously or with such blatant bias, and, as such, is highly entertaining. The narrative is stitched together from Lydon's highly selective rendering of punk history and the often contradictory testimonies of many of his friends. It primarily concerns his time in the Sex Pistols, and the notoriety that attended those few years when his punk alter-ego, Johnny Rotten, was the object of the kind of mass moral panic one can never imagine a pop performer ever engendering again. Anyone looking for clues as to the current state of Lydon's psyche could do worse than read his biography, first published 10 years ago, and hastily reissued to cash in on his current and unexpected popularity. ![]()
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