Included is testimony from Lydon's father and rockers Chrissie Hynde, Billy Idol, and others a track-by-track analysis of Pistols recordings and a reading of affidavits in Lydon's suit against former manager Malcolm McLaren for back pay. He tells how he named Pistols' bassist Sid Vicious for his hamster how he tried to kill Sid's girlfriend Nancy how lead guitarist Steve Jones stole equipment for the Pistols of having his father sleep with his fans and of being stabbed by royalists enraged by the group's hit ""God Save the Queen."" Lydon offers plenty of insight into the punk subculture itself, including punk fashion, which flourished and died in just two years in the late '70s and had colorful (not all blackclad) beginnings the class barriers punk straddled the opportunities it afforded women, historically marginal to British pop and the enormous degree to which the music industry - which quickly co-opted punk's energy and narrowed its meaning - influences English life. His book is a loose series of reminiscences that spares no one - least ofall his friends - its honesty and occasional contradictions. A poor, hunchbacked adolescent, Lydon suffered shyness and explosive anger his intensity overpowered all who approached him.
A youthful sufferer of spinal meningitis, he returned home from a long hospitalization at age seven with no memory his mother spent her evenings for two years outfitting him with a life, telling him all she knew about the world. Lydon has a harrowing story, and he tells it with all the rage and disdain that marked his early music. An insightful look at punk rock's - and his own - beginnings by former Sex Pistols' lead singer John Lydon (aka Johnny Rotten), with some help from enemies and friends.
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