John Lydon: His Ten Greatest Albums
, 2023-01-31 06:56:34,
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For an artist who claims to have “changed music twice,” the redoubtable Johnny Rotten hasn’t needed to produce a large number of records to get his message across. His four-decade roller coaster career began, reluctantly, when he was invited to audition for the embryonic Sex Pistols in August 1975 by maverick rag-mongering Malcolm McLaren. The band only made one album, but it was an important one: Never Mind The Bollocks… has been cited by the likes of Noel Gallagher as the best of them all, and certainly kicked off a whole genre.
Always known for anger and sarcasm, even the earliest PiL had softer features.
After their implosion in January 1978, the Pistols’ catalog was soon filled with bootleg copies and McLaren-generated collections, one of which, Flogging A Dead Horse, was not rescued by postmodern irony. By then, Lydon was musically and spiritually elsewhere, having transformed with Public Image Ltd. PiL’s early freeform outings, informed by his penchant for genuinely progressive mid-’70s prog (Can, Captain Beefheart, etc. ), left punk militants baffled, but have since come to define the experimentalist essence of post-punk, with Lydon himself as their enthusiastic shaman.
“You bastard! Fuck your magazine!” Read MOJO’s 2012 pow-wow with John Lydon…
After detonating those two seismic shifts, the self-proclaimed ‘shape-shifter’ has continued to make mesmerizing music, always illuminated by his fierce charisma,…
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