Conan told a story when he had Gregg Allman on his TBS show that when Johnny said they despised the Allman Brothers, Gregg and Dickie Betts heard it backstage and tried to kick his ass, but Johnny ran out of the building before they could get to him.
It was a very dry reference to Kurt Cobain's suicide a few days earlier & it was hilarious coz John said it all without saying anything & the audience knew exactly what he meant
John is probably on the spectrum somewhere. And one of the symptoms is having an inability to lie and say things how they are even at the cost of other peoples feelings. I believe John’s stories more than anyone else involved in the band
Yep, I believe that too. He is very sincere, but also much smarter than you would think.He like to discuss things and he is absolutely not a PK (politically correct) person.I really like him.
No he’s not on the spectrum. When he was 7 contracted spinal meningitis , hospitalised in a coma for months, followed by a year in recovery in hospital . The title of John Lydon's memoir, Anger Is an Energy: My Life Uncensored, takes its inspiration from a lyric written for his band Public Image Limited - but it also has its roots in a transformative real-life experience from his childhood. As Lydon writes in the book, he suffered a scary brush with meningitis when he was 7, which left him in a coma for months - and when he awoke, he essentially had to start over as a person. "When I [came] out of the coma, I had no memory or recollection of who or what I was," writes Lydon. "I couldn't control my own body and I couldn't talk. I did not recognize my own mom and dad. I did not know I had a name. I did not know I belonged to anybody or anything. I was completely and utterly alone."
John is far to intelligent for most people to understand. He may come off as sarcastic or annoyed, its because its difficult for average people to understand what he is saying.
His vocabulary says otherwise. He is average on his best day. You seriously think he is too intelligent for society to understand? You seriously think that?
@@johnnywrath6969 He is from a poor Irish immigrant family from a rough part of North London..Holloway Rd ...amazing he's as articulate and erudite really. I worked with his younger brother Bob back in the 90s..lovely family
I consider myself an average person with an average IQ and I never found anything he said to be difficult to understand. In fact, I read both his books and have been a fan of his for decades now. He's not exactly William Buckley.
Am I really the only person that thinks John Lydon is a phoney ? ‘Johnny Rotten’ was a great frontman in the early Pistol days but has since become an egotistical caricature of himself. He never acknowledges his old band mates apart from Vicious who he has to talk about due to the continued interest in his chaotic life and subsequent demise. In my experience Steve Jones is far more real and always gives a better account of the band when interviewed.
Not sure how you can watch this interview and conclude him as a phoney… dude literally spews out great introspective quotes on our human and social condition whereas steve jones has said he just wanted to party and meet girls
What a load of old bollox....You obviously weren't there then Gary. Punk changed the whole landscape of music in the UK in the 70's and early 80's. It encouraged many kids to pick up instruments up that would have never thought of doing so. This just didn't trigger more punk bands and the scene that followed but many of the innovative Indie bands like Joy Division that came after.
