Well put. I just find it hard to take Johnny Rotten seriously and not just as a cheap facade.As Malcolm McClaren said in a recent interview,
"His (Lydon) problem is that he could never escape Johnny Rotten because John Lydon was never interesting enough. Sad but true."
I cant deny the Pistols impact on music but I just felt quite cheated by their lyrics. I mean my favourite Pistols song was always Pretty Vacant and I heard it was created when Malcolm told Johnny to rewrite Blank Generation by Richard Hell.
More on topic, I do think that Richard Hell played a very important part in the birth of punk.
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