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No Future? At Least Lydon Isn't Hung Up On The Past

Jim Sullivan, The Boston Globe, 22 August 1999

JOHN LYDON – once (and probably forever) known as Johnny Rotten – does not stomp around the world in a bad mood, contrary to popular belief. "How could I walk around angry?'' Lydon says, his voice rising in mock-horror. "I am not like that at all. I mean, when the song is about a specific subject, then I can be angry. But I am jolly and substantive.''

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