Lead singer of sex pistols

He arrived on the pop culture landscape of the s with the subtlety of a mushroom cloud, serving as the globally recognized face of punk rock, as well as its id. John Lydon — then known as Johnny Rotten, the lead singer of the British band the Sex Pistols — did not just espouse anarchy, he personified it, gyrating onstage like a broken marionette as he screeched against the pillars of polite society, while a hailstorm of spit rained in from the audience. At their apogee, the Sex Pistols inspired pundits on the evening news to ponder, in all seriousness, whether the decline of Western civilization had finally arrived. Lydon has apparently mellowed with age, at least by his standards.

It was all over by mid-January , the band having crashed and burned after a shambolic seven-date U. Rotten has written two books about his life in the Sex Pistols and beyond and co-founding bassist Glen Matlock has written one. Now, Sex Pistols guitarist Steve Jones steps up, writing about the massive dysfunction that was there in both the band and in his own family. He co-wrote the book, much of it via Skype, with English writer Ben Thompson.

It was less than four months after the death of his girlfriend, Nancy Spungen — and Vicious stood accused of murdering her in the bathroom of their suite at the Chelsea Hotel. But four decades on, what really happened in Room still remains unclear. The boy born John Simon Ritchie in Lewisham was only 21 when he died. She had died of a stab wound to the abdomen on 12 October

The Sex Pistols may have only been together for two years in the late '70s, but they changed the face of popular music. In England, the group was considered dangerous to the very fabric of society and was banned across the country; in America, they didn't have the same impact, but countless bands in both countries were inspired by the sheer sonic force of their music, while countless others were inspired by their independent, Do-It-Yourself ethics. Even if they didn't release any singles by themselves, there was an implicit independence in the way they played their music and handled their career.