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
dying rotten glorious
There's nothing glorious in dying. Anyone can do it.
suffering sides bed
You can always wake up on the wrong side of the bed and, boo-hiss, everyone suffers. We can all be temperamental.
wall leader political
The only good political movement I've seen lately was Occupy Wall Street. They had no leaders, which was genius. But unfortunately it always ends up with some hippy playing a flute.
song mean ideas
Some song ideas absolutely require a kind of rigid discipline, and others require absolute chaotic abandon. The form is only valid if you know how to un-form it. I don't mean to sound like an intellectual here!
book joy my-one-and-only
Books are like my one and only joy.
process humans human-beings
As a human being, I'm work in process.
singers faces world
Let's face it, I ain't ever gonna be the best singer in the world, or the best anything.
dog lap rotten
I'm no one's lap dog, you can't put me on a leash.
band green punk
I never thought of Green Day as a punk band. Just bubblegum, really.
emotion wanted realised
Music can describe emotions far more accurately than words ever can. As soon as I realised that, I knew music was where I wanted to be.
england heroin users
I could take on England, but I couldn't take on one heroin user.
forgiveness razors turn-the-other-cheek
Turn the other cheek too often and you get a razor through it.
biggest-fear
My biggest fear is mindlessly and stupidly repeating myself.
school years names
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.