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"...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...

Last Update: Saturday, July 12, 2003. 9:40am (AEST) Never mind the WMDs: here's the Sex Pistols British punk band the Sex Pistols want to bring their particular brand of anarchy to Iraq, vowing to play a live concert in Baghdad with the message that democracy has its pitfalls. In an interview posted on the MTV music channel website, Pistols' front man John Lydon, who was known as Johnny Rotten during the punk heyday, said the reformed band hoped to set up the concert for sometime early next year. "I am definite about it," Lydon said. "The red tape is lining...