John Lydon
John Lydon
John Joseph Lydon, also known by his former stage name Johnny Rotten, is an English singer, songwriter, and musician. He is best known as the lead singer of the late 1970's punk band The Sex Pistols, which lasted from 1975 until 1978, and again for various revivals during the 1990s and 2000s. He is also the lead singer of post-punk band Public Image Ltd, which he founded and fronted from 1978 until 1993, and again since 2009...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionMusician
Date of Birth31 January 1956
sound
The sounds of anger are not melodic.
mirrors needs gorgeous
Punk is like looking at a mirror. I already have a mirror so I don't need the Offspring to remind me how gorgeous I am.
biggest-fear
My biggest fear is mindlessly and stupidly repeating myself.
effort together records
I applaud the effort it takes to put a record together.
sex fake pistols
We're Sex Pistols, we ain't fake.
dense
Obama's dense as a doorbell; not much going on up there - it's a wooden top.
running ideas records
The day I run out of ideas is the day I stop making records.
rocks play
For me, the best rock is not what you play - it's what you're not playing.
hate thinking people
People think I hate the Royal Family, but that's not true.
beautiful sorry persistence
You're made to feel ugly, and I made ugly beautiful. Just by sheer persistence. Nobody has the right to say that I am ugly, and I will not be a professional victim, you know. Sorry!
moving past stuff
You need the past as a guideline. The history of music is a good basis, but to escape that stuff, that tortuous rulebook, you have to learn it first. It's kind of like religion - once you've written the Bible, that's it, move on.
song grief past
You have moments of grief in life, and if you can put pen to paper and capture that, that's something wonderful. I can revisit actual songs about past deaths, and I know that emotion is as true now as it was then.
sex thinking challenges
My entire life, socially, was all around the Maggie era. That was the great challenge as a Sex Pistol was how to deal with Margaret Thatcher. I think we did rather good.
fun university-students parent
I always knew the Sixties wasn't a revolution. It really was just a bunch of university students with wealthy parents having fun.