John Lydon says his experience of the Sex Pistols’ popularity was “mostly hell on Earth”

nme.com:

John Lydon has described his time in the Sex Pistols during the height of the band’s popularity as being “mostly hell on Earth”.The singer has reflected in a new interview on the band’s heyday during the late 1970s, saying that the Pistols’ “soppy little pop songs” heightened their notoriety at the time.“I don’t know that there was much glory.

It was mostly hell on earth,” Lydon told the Metro newspaper’s Sixty Seconds column about the Sex Pistols’ first stint between 1975 and 1978.“There was constant pressure.

But I got to write the songs I wanted to write, got those lyrics out to Joe Public and Joe Public was very nice and appreciated it.”Lydon continued: “But then I had a media and a police force who did not appreciate it.