Now, Lydon candidly and at times, dare we say it, fondly looks back at himself, the Sex Pistols, and the "no future" attitude of the time. Seventies punk has been romanticized by the media and the up-and-coming punk bands of today, but the sneering, leering disaffection of that time has been lost. Johnny Rotten, in his introduction to the book Rotten, an oral history of punk: angry, honest, and crackling with energy. I have no time for lies or fantasy, and neither should you. This means contradictions and insults have not been edited, and neither have the compliments, if any. This book is as close to the truth as one can get. Much of it has either been sensationalism or journalistic psychobabble. "Much has been written about the Sex Pistols. Johnny Rotten tells his own side of the Sex Pistols story and the era that spawned them, in a memoir that includes comments by others who were there during the punk revolution Dust cover has some shelfwear, but otherwise looks unread.
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