![]() The post-punk Public Image Ltd, known as PiL, formed in 1978 and continues today giving Lydon the freedom to say what he wants. ![]() (Julien Temple’s documentary, The Filth and the Fury, chronicles the band’s chaos-filled rise and fall, including the fatal overdose by Sid Vicious.)īut Lydon didn’t go away after the band’s demise. But after only 26 months together, this seminal band was over. The MI5 declared the Pistols “subversive,” and they were banned from performing live anywhere in the U.K. He was happy to provoke, make scenes, throw some punches and thumb his nose at the rules of convention. ![]() Johnny Rotten was hailed by young Brits as a cultural revolutionary. The Sex Pistols took on England’s Houses of Parliament, its monarchy and the establishment by speaking for the less fortunate who were stagnating in a quagmire of economic hopelessness and poverty. ![]() ![]() John Lydon, aka Johnny Rotten, the king of the punks, lit the match for cultural revolution at age 20 when he penned the lyrics to the Sex Pistols iconic 1976 single, “ Anarchy in the U.K.” and howled: “I am an antiChrist. ![]()
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