Lydon has been out of practice as a frontman, spending the pandemic not as a singer but as a carer for his wife, Nora Forster, who was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s in 2018. Not ever.‘Lockdown was soul-destroying for Nora’ … Nora Forster and John Lydon in 1986. 'It’s bizarre that a bloke like Danny Boyle would consider doing something without speaking to me. I mean, where is the accuracy? If you cut me out, then you’ll never know how those songs were formulated. I’m the frontman, and now I’m not there,' Rotten elaborated. “But they now disagree with that prospect, so they won the case on the grounds of majority rather than unanimity, so I’m outvoted all the time, on everything, from here on in. I wrote all the songs. Rotten further added that the members used to uphold an informal agreement that if there were any discrepancies amongst them over endeavors related to the band, that they wouldn't carry on with it, so as not to hurt anyone. I’m the image, it’s my name they’re using to promote it, Monsieur Rotten here.” “The underhandedness of it is preposterous and the assumption that I would be negative right from the start is clearly ludicrous in itself. I wrote all those songs.

If there was any truth in it, they wouldn’t have kept it from me. They were putting this together for three solid years behind my back without involving me in any way, shape or form,' he explained. Not any script, I’ve been completely ostracized. To be misrepresented in such a rude manner is unacceptable. “I don’t really want to watch it but I will need to fact-check it. I supported them for years and years and years, knowing they were dead wood. None of these fucks would have a career but for me. They did nothing before, they’ve done nothing since.”ĭespite his anger over Pistol, the vocalist admitted that he still plans on watching it, mainly so that he can see how he's been portrayed by his former bandmates. 'Cutting me out is a shockingly stupid move.

Rotten explained to The Sun that his former bandmates spent years plotting the series without him. Rotten, in turn, denounced the release of the record. When Pistol was given an official release date earlier this year, it was also revealed that a Sex Pistols compilation album titled The Original Recordings would be issued through Universal Music Group a few days prior to the premiere of the show.

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