![]() "Hello, I'm John! I've lived a very long and interesting life, and I've done so by doing it my way, not the highway." When I point out that's reason enough to pick up the book, he practically interrupts me. "Who am I to say?" retorts Lydon, when I asked him why readers might want to pick up his memoir. By his own admission, he just doesn't play that game. The artist formerly known as Johnny Rotten is remarkably warm and funny, but laces dialogue with a bluntness missing from most celebrity interviews. Lydon's storied career and pull-no-punches attitude is on full display in the memoir-his second, following 1994's immensely readable Rotten: No Irish, No Blacks, No Dogs-and in conversations. Listen, I'm very open in my ways or whatever, but when it comes down to other people's predetermined ideologies, like a list of ten, there's where problems begin with a character like me. ![]() "The ten I tell you today would be a different ten tomorrow. Can not do it!" That's how John Lydon-the guiding force behind Public Image Ltd and the former Sex Pistols frontman, whose memoir Anger Is an Energy: My Life Uncensored is out this week-assessed the challenge of putting together a top-ten list for Esquire. ![]()
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