They were skirmishing on the outside of it rather than the typical slam-dunk bands that drove me nuts, because they all sounded the same.” The Buzzcocks, Magazine, X-Ray Spex, the Adverts, the Raincoats: “Those, I liked. Lydon doesn’t actually listen to much punk music. But among twice-told tales about Malcolm McLaren’s fecklessness, Sid Vicious’s tragic cluelessness and Lydon’s own poor eyesight (it gave him his psychotic glare) and meningitis (he contracted it from rat urine in the puddles where he played as kid), the book features plenty of morbidly fascinating tidbits from one of England’s least likely national treasures. Here are our 10 favorites. Out Tuesday, Anger Is an Energy: My Life Uncensored covers plenty of familiar ground, from the Sex Pistols’ supersonic rise to the long, twisted history of his anarchic follow-up, Public Image Ltd. More than 20 years after the publication of his first book, Rotten: No Irish, No Blacks, No Dogs, the Sex Pistols‘ Johnny Rotten (né Lydon) can still bombard with enough opinions and adventures to fill a 500-page autobiography. Never mind the other bollocks: Johnny’s still got plenty of his own.
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