He's not the kind of person who would, for instance, abuse animals.' The story of her unavailing efforts to get first John and then Sid Vicious to marry her so she can stay in the country is hilarious, and her acute observations on Lydon's character are at once cruel and kind: 'John's a bastard, but there's still something sweet and tender about him. Hynde, whose pre-history as punk rock fairy godmother seems to be worth a book in itself, is especially revealing. Rotten's ranting reminiscences are interspersed with a fascinating body of testimony - some supportive, some healthily contradictory - from his father, his friends, Finsbury Park football hooligans - turned - jewellery designers, fellow Sex Pistols Steve Cook and Paul Jones, record company employees and assorted punk alumni such as Steve Severin, Chrissie Hynde and Billy Idol.
THIS portrait of the author as a young Sex Pistol is an exhausting, splenetic book, but there is something very gratifying about its refusal to fall into line with the numerous other accounts of the period (which Lydon rubbishes so tirelessly as to become tiresome) and with its subject's obsessive self-validation.
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