John Lydon on Green Day...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5L7d9QLgvh4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbPem6_duMA

Idiots. John lydons a twat. And tom seems like a nice fellow but he and john both don't have a clue what they're talking about.

As the true brains behind the Sex Pistols, John Lydon -- formerly Johnny Rotten -- is easily one of the most influential and revered figures in rock & roll. The godfather of British punk, a leader in the arty post-punk movement with Public Image Ltd., and a participant in the alternative rock scene his earlier work helped inspire, Lydon has forged a stubbornly idiosyncratic body of work that reflects both his love of challenging his audience and his snarling contempt for shallowness and conformity.

John Joseph Lydon was born in Finsbury Park, London, England, on January 31, 1956, into a poor, working-class family of Irish descent. At age seven, Lydon contracted spinal meningitis and spent half a year slipping in and out of comas...

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