John Lydon
John Lydon (born January 31, 1956), also known by the moniker Johnny Rotten (a nickname deriving from the state of his teeth), was the iconoclastic lead singer of the Sex Pistols and Public Image Ltd. With his leery, swaggering and sarcastic manner he laid down a new template of rebellious youth and band front man that continues to be imitated today.However his interest in dub music and his post-Sex Pistols work with PiL and artists such as Africa Bambaata and Leftfield showed him to be far more musically complex than his Pistols image gave him credit for.
Today Lydon is a freelance counter-culture journalist in Los Angeles and has reported from events such as the Seattle Riots.
Lydon's autobiography- Rotten- No Dogs, No Blacks, No IrishFurther reading
