The Guardian, January 31, 2004
'Rotten... captures the rancid flavour of Lydon's punk and pre-punk life... a good read'
Kerrang!, January 24, 2004
‘Lydon’s story is one of struggle and an almost foolhardy courage... for sheer eye-of-the-storm authenticity, this is hard to beat.'
NME, January 24, 2004
‘This autobiography remains – ten years since it was first written – a nihilistic, gross-out masterpiece.’
Product Description
Punk has been romanticised and embalmed by the media. A youth revolt that became a world-wide fashion statement, punk s idols were the Sex Pistols, and Johnny Rotten was its sneering antichrist. Now, John Lydon - aka Rotten - looks back at himself, the Pistols and their time. Rotten is a history of punk: angry, witty, poignant and crackling with energy. Malcolm McLaren, Sid Vicious, the 70s, the Pistols story are all here, in one of the best ever books about youth culture, by one of its most notorious and influential figures.
