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07/28/2003 Archived Entry: "Sex Pistols Ready to Bring Anarchy to U.S.A."

THEY STILL THINK THEY WERE A SERIOUS PROJECT: I almost feel sorry for John Lydon, AKA Johnny Rotten, ostensible leader of 1970s punk group The Sex Pistols. It's common knowledge that the band was essentially a promoter's idea of a joke and yet the surviving Pistols strut around as if they were a genuine cultural artifact. It's kind of like the way you smile when you hear anyone from The Monkees argue that they really did make a cultural contribution.

At any rate, the Sex Pistols will be touring the U.S. this summer and Lydon talks as if it's the second coming.

So why reunite now?

"Who says we reunited?" Lydon asks. "We never separated. We don't need a reason for anything. Let the copycats sit around and come up with reasons for things."

Still, Lydon seems to think the time is right to spread a little anarchy in North America. "There is a vast amount of disenfranchised in America," he says. "It's important to let them know we're still here."

Right. They did make a couple of cool songs, perhaps the best of them being Pretty Vacant, which although it isn't rocket science does rock.

Read on.

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Exactly! Lydon was cool, but has grown maddingly incoherent and insufferable. Or maybe it's me :-)

Although I think their best song, if it really counts as one, being from the GRandRSwindle era, was "Silly Thing."

Posted by Kathy Shaidle @ 07/28/2003 10:00 AM EST