He may be 50 and back, but he ain't fat.
Posted on 05/29/2008 12:40:33 PM PDT by sinanju
"...John Joseph Lydon, founder member of the iconic 1970s punk band the Sex Pistols, the group that laid down a new template for rebellious youth when they pogoed onto the music scene in 1977 with their anti-royalist song God Save the Queen and their best-selling album 'Never Mind the Bollocks', is just as much the master of the raucous rant as ever he was.
...At seven, Lydon developed meningitis and lapsed into a coma for several months. When he finally came round, he suffered complete memory loss. The effect of the trauma has been lifelong. It brought home, at an early age, the importance of trust. And a genuinely held belief that honesty is all important.
...Lydon's mother had to teach him to read and write again but, by then, teachers had decided he was dim. 'Dummy Dum Dum was my nickname for years at school. I was the strange one of the family, the one who couldn't remember his name. But funnily enough, I became the responsible one. The one who got the other kids ready for school. Dad worked away a lot and Mum was ill a lot.'
...'Everyone on our estate had it tough. Nobody had any money. You've got to pick a pocket or two. You had to know how to make money and not get caught. And at the same time not to turn into a thief or burglar. That sort of working-class community didn't wear anyone parasiting on their own. But that kind of code of conduct doesn't exist now. England's a violent place. Too violent for me. That's why I prefer it here. For a gun-toting nation, Americans are surprisingly passive. This place suits me and the wife.'
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
Johnny was on FOX’s Red Eye, he was the most Conservative on the panel. It was great.
The Sex Pistols were a lot of things, but one thing I never would think of them as being is liberal. Anyone who has ever heard the song ‘Bodies’ would have a hard time believing that they are liberal on the issue of abortion anyway.
Rock and Roll PING!
Although Johnny has flip flopped on everything from Disco to the Royals.
Forming a new band, “The Viagra Pistols”!.................
“Anyone who has ever heard the song ‘Bodies’ would have a hard time believing that they are liberal on the issue of abortion anyway.”
“Bodies....I’m not an animal....”
“...’My dad was a bit of a child prodigy. He got out of Ireland by playing in show bands from when he was 14. My mum, she had a tough life. Had us four boys and five miscarriages besides. That was a way of life then. I remember carrying the results of those miscarriages, in a bucket, to flush down the outside lav. Lots of times. Little bits of bodies...”
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No, I don’t suppose he would be too liberal on the abortion topic, his poor mum suffered five of the spontaneous kind...
ABC once did a story on the Hard Rock Hotel opening in Vegas, with a lot of hang-wringing about whether it meant rock was "selling out," man. Then the cameras caught up with Johnny in the lobby and asked what he thought. I think he shocked them when he said he thought it was "GREAT!" He said the rock music business was always about big corporations making a ton of money, and now they'd finally brought it to the place where capitalism reigned.
A gun-toting nation is a polite nation.
I’ve got a lot of respect for John. And I still freakin’ love the Sex Pistols!
God save the queen
The fascist regime
They made you a moron
Potential H-bomb
God save the queen
She ain’t no human being
There is no future
In England’s dreaming
He may be 50 and back, but he ain't fat.
He may be 50 and back, but he ain't fat.
Along the lines of punk rockers with a brain:
Johnny Ramone-lead guitarist and premier talent in the Ramones was an emerging conservative all the way up until his death a few years back.
I am an antichrist
I am an anarchist
Don’t know what I want
But I know how to get it
I wanna destroy the passerby
‘Cause I wanna be Anarchy
No dogsbody
Anarchy for the UK
It’s coming sometime and maybe
I give a wrong time stop a traffic line
Your future dream is a shopping scheme
/mark
The master recordings of “Anarchy” were lost, so the Sex Pistols re-did the song in 2007 for use on the Guitar Hero III video game. They sound great! It’s my, er, I mean, my son’s favorite song to play along to!
Are you sure that the tapes were lost?
They play some isolated tracks through a soundboard in the DVD on the making of Never Mind The Bollocks.
Overall that series of DVDs seems pretty good although some episodes are better than others.
The isolated instruments are pretty cool to check out.
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