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Signed colour 10" x 8" photo of
John Lydon (Johnny Rotten of
the Sex Pistols). The photo is hand signed in
black marker pen.
Price: £29.99
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John Lydon
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Biography
John Joseph Lydon (born 31 January 1956), also known by the former stage name
Johnny Rotten, is a singer-songwriter and television presenter, best known as
the lead singer of punk rock band the Sex Pistols from 1975 until 1978, and
again for various revivals during the 1990s and 2000s. He is the lead singer of
the post-punk band Public Image Ltd, which he founded and fronted from 1978
until 1993, and again from 2009. Throughout his career, Lydon has made
controversial or dismissive comments about the royal family and other subjects.
Q Magazine remarked that "somehow he's assumed the status of national treasure."
Lydon's personally crafted image and fashion style led to him being asked to
become the singer of the Sex Pistols by their manager, Malcolm McLaren. With the
Pistols, he penned singles including "Anarchy in the U.K.", "God Save the Queen"
and "Holidays in the Sun", the content of which precipitated the "last and
greatest outbreak of pop-based moral pandemonium" in Britain. The band caused
nationwide uproar in much of the media, who objected to the content of Lydon’s
lyrics, and their antics, which included swearing on live television, in which
Steve Jones called Bill Grundy a "fucking rotter". Due to the band's appearance
in the media, Lydon was largely seen as the figurehead of the punk movement in
the public image although this idea was not widely supported amongst the punk
movement itself. Despite the negative reaction that they provoked, they are now
regarded as one of the most influential acts in the history of popular music.
Lydon left the Pistols in 1978 to found his own band, Public Image Ltd, that was
far more experimental in nature, and which has been described as "arguably the
first post-punk group".
Read more....
John
Lydon on allmusic.com |
Sex Pistols
on Wikipedia |
Sex Pistols on allmusic.com
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