“I thought, ‘This is going horribly wrong.’ I wasn’t doing this to create a new uniform that wasn’t any way near as good as what the Nazis had. He complained of those in attendance at his early PiL shows. “Row 1 to 30 would be Johnny Rotten imitators,” Rotten said. And I wanted to do new and different things, which is, to my mind, what punk is all about: Do it yourself, which means be true to yourself.” Available for sale from Elliott Gallery, Sheila Rock, John Lydon (Johnny Rotten) of Public Image Ltd, ex of The Sex. “Punk wanted to maintain the cliché and the uniformity that it didn’t deserve. It was around the time Rotten, aka John Lydon, ventured off down a different musical path with his group Public Image Ltd. “That’s where punk and me separated,” he explained. Dogs: The Authorized Autobiography Johnny Rotten of the Sex Pistols - SIGNED Copy. Micks Music Channel 9. In a profile for the New York Times, Rotten spoke about his punk legacy, but more importantly why he doesn’t identify with the scene anymore. Includes contributions from Caroline Coon, Billy Idol, Chrissie Hynde. John Lydon aka Johnny Rotten, Love, Life and visiting Childhood Home. Unfortunately for Armstrong and his Bay Area band, Rotten doesn’t think very highly of Green Day, or any of their peers for that matter. In fact, Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong has called the Sex Pistols frontman one of his all-time favorite songwriters. Green Day likely wouldn’t exist if it weren’t for punk rock forefathers Johnny Rotten and the Sex Pistols.
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