 John Lydon is turning his 'anger into humour' in a new Public Image Ltd song slamming the Sex Pistols. The veteran musician, 67, shot to fame with the Pistols in the 70s, securing a massive following – but there were plenty of ups and downs in between. Now playing with Public Image Ltd, John has a new album coming out this month, and one song reflects on the fraught relationships between the Sex Pistols bandmates. He recalls 'the first Sex Pistols rehearsal, where we all really did not get along,' and then immediately corrects himself. 'Actually, the first rehearsal, they didn't even turn up,' he tells Metro.co.uk. 'On the new album there's actually a song, LCCF, about them not turning up at the first rehearsal. 'Liars, Cheats, Fakes and Frauds!' I approach it in this particular way with a great sense of fun. It's a fantastic rhythm going on there from the lads, my lads, the PiL lads. An effervescent approach rather than deep hatred and animosity – which are things I don't naturally feel anyway. 'I could be angry, but I use anger as an energy and I turn anger into humour.' The star 'turns anger into humour' in his music (Picture: Getty Images) Another track, Being Stupid Again, takes aim at what John describes as 'the opinionated malevolence' coming from universities, who he claims 'won't tolerate any speech by anybody that differs from the manifesto that they're being indoctrinated with.' 'That's not learning, that's a slave to the sh*t-stem stuff … if you can't have what you're doing and believing in questioned, well then you're not believing in it at all.' He says he is 'best entertained by people talking absolute rubbish, I like it, I want to hear more of it,' and pleads with students to 'be stupid again.' 'Laugh at yourself, laugh with me. And then we'll laugh together. This world isn't about us and them, it's about all of us.' He admits 'most' of his '){kind=link}
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John Lydon is turning his ‘anger into humour’ in a new Public Image Ltd song slamming the Sex Pistols.
The veteran musician, 67, shot to fame with the Pistols in the 70s, securing a massive following – but there were plenty of ups and downs in between.
Now playing with Public Image Ltd, John has a new album coming out this month, and one song reflects on the fraught relationships between the Sex Pistols bandmates.
He recalls ‘the first Sex Pistols rehearsal, where we all really did not get along,’ and then immediately corrects himself.