This book is neither ghost-written, nor is it a publisher’s delight. I hope you enjoy Rotten: No Irish, No Blacks, No Dogs because certainly the alternative is lies and exaggeration. Fashion follows individuality, and never the other way around. It is a tragedy of modern life that individuality is perceived as, at best, an art form, and at least, an outcast. Individuality is a major theme of the book. The Sex Pistols dismissed traditional sexual and racial role-playing. As someone born in the late fifties, going through the sixties as a child, observing the feminist movement as a pre-teen, seeing the mistakes of others, observing drastic political changes in youth culture and watching most of them fail, as chance would have it, we put a band together out of the debris. Music must reflect life, and life must come first. This leaves a tapestry for you to unravel. Hence the use of extra voices like Billy Idol, Chrissie Hynde, my father, best friends, worst friends, and people I hardly know. In order to be accurate, I’ve taken several extra months to deliberately eliminate a single point of view format in favour of the larger picture. I’m not saying I’m completely correct, because in reading the book, you’ll notice more than a few contradictions. Rotten: No Irish, No Blacks, No Dogs is the no-bullshit account of the Sex Pistols from my own point of view. We have points of view and prejudices, just like everybody else. In actuality, so-called ”rock icons” are just people. The trouble with rock journalism in general is this they settle for a narrow point of view, completely missing out on the humanity of the subject matter. In order to understand why people do what they do, you must first understand why they’ve done it, who they are and where they come from. You cannot separate the Sex Pistols from the real world, which is what past publications have tended to do. “The Sex Pistols were gaudiness incarnate. First published in 1994 the book also includes contributions from Paul Cook and Steve Jones together with various friends, family and associates such as John Rambo Stevens, Julien Temple, Chrissy Hynde, Billy Idol, and more…

John Lydon’s first autobiography mainly concentrating on Sex Pistols.

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