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ROTTEN John Lydon with Keith & Kent Zimmerman Punk has been romanticised and embalmed on TV, in
books and on the catwalk. An
English youth revolt that became a world-wide fashion statement,
punk’s idols were the Sex Pistols, and Johnny Rotten was its sneering
antichrist. Seventeen years
later, John Lydon (aka Rotten) looks back at himself, the Pistols and
the ‘no future’ disaffection of their time.
More than just a music book, Rotten is a history of punk: angry,
witty, poignant and crackling with energy.
Malcolm McClaren, Sid Vicious, Chrissie Hynde, Billy Idol, the
Britain of the late ‘70s, the Pistols’ creation and collapse – all
are here, in perhaps the best book ever written about youth culture, by
one of its most notorious figures. 352 pages / 30 b+w photos / 230 x 155mm ISBN 0 85965 341 2 ISBN13 978 0 85965 341 1 Paperback / UK £12.99 / NO US RIGHTS |