![]() ![]() ![]() This memoir, which includes contributions from various friends and associates including Chrissie Hynde and Billy Idol, is an interesting if sometimes rather disjointed affair. Was he the iconoclast who if some of the tabloids were to be believed was about to destroy western civilization almost single-handed? Had he really come to destroy, or merely to use the showbusiness system and end up becoming part of what he had set out to fight, or both – or what? Picking up this book immediately makes you wonder what exactly you make of John Lydon, the man who became notorious in the late 1970s as 'Johnny Rotten' of the Sex Pistols. This isn't a comfortable read, but he would probably feel insulted if I suggested that it was. ![]() Summary: What do you make of John Lydon, alias 'Johnny Rotten' of the Sex Pistols, the man who if some of the tabloids were to be believed was about to destroy western civilization almost single-handed? This memoir of the chaotic heyday of punk rock is entertaining in a strange kind of way, even if his continual mouthing off at everyone and everything can become a little wearisome. ![]()
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