Rotten: no Irish, no Blacks, no dogs: the authorized autobiography: Johnny Rotten of the Sex Pistols

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Never mind the situationists; this was situation comedy -- Child of the ashes -- John Gray, a longtime childhood friend -- John Christopher Lydon, my Father -- Steptoe-rag and the fashion victim -- "I want you to know that I hate you, Baby" -- Stone-cold dead silence/a John and Paul summit -- Every mistake imaginable -- Hand on eyes -- The skaters of Streatham/Nora, my Wife -- Steve Severin on the Bromley Contingent -- Shooting in the dark -- Paul Cook, drummer -- "How brilliant! They hate the Beatles!" Paul Stahl, Marco Pirroni, & Dave Ruffy -- Kiss this--The Pistols track by track -- John Wayne look-alikes in dresses -- Goundhog Day 1979 -- Big draw, then hand on face/Don Letts, John Lydon, and Jeanette Lee -- Where's the money? -- Never mind the lolling on the sand, here's the affidavits/a legal pie fight -- No Irish, no Blacks, no dogs, -- John Christopher Lydon, slight return -- "Ever get the feeling ..." -- Where are they now?;"I have no time for lies and fantasy, and neither should you. Enjoy or die ..."--John Lydon Punk has been romanticized and embalmed in various media. An English class revolt that became a worldwide fashion statement, punk's idols were the Sex Pistols, and its sneering hero was Johnny Rotten. Seventeen years later, John Lydon looks back at himself, the Sex Pistols, and the "no future" disaffection of the time. Much more than just a music book, Rotten is an oral history of punk: angry, witty, honest, poignant, crackling with energy. Malcolm McLaren, Sid Vicious, Chrissie Hynde, Billy Idol, London and England in the late 1970s, the Pistols' creation and collapse ... all are here, in perhaps the best book ever written about music and youth culture, by one of its most notorious figures. Never mind the situationists this was situation comedy -- Child of the ashes -- John Gray, a longtime childhood friend -- John Christopher Lydon, my Father -- Steptoe-rag and the fashion victim -- "I want you to know that I hate you, Baby" -- Stone-cold dead silence/a John and Paul summit -- Every mistake imaginable -- Hand on eyes -- The skaters of Streatham/Nora, my Wife -- Steve Severin on the Bromley Contingent -- Shooting in the dark -- Paul Cook, drummer -- "How brilliant! They hate the Beatles!" Paul Stahl, Marco Pirroni, & Dave Ruffy -- Kiss this--The Pistols track by track -- John Wayne look-alikes in dresses -- Goundhog Day 1979 -- Big draw, then hand on face/Don Letts, John Lydon, and Jeanette Lee -- Where's the money? -- Never mind the lolling on the sand, here's the affidavits/a legal pie fight -- No Irish, no Blacks, no dogs, -- John Christopher Lydon, slight return -- "Ever get the feeling ..." -- Where are they now?