Sex Pistols frontman John Lydon was a “sensation”, but “didn’t have any more ideas” when the band split.Westwood was speaking to NME around the release of Wake Up Punk, a new documentary directed by Nigel Askew and heavily featuring the punk legend.Asked by NME about why she says in Wake Up Punk that Lydon has “lost his mojo in recent years,” Westwood responded: “I think John Lydon was a sensation.
I think he was so convinced of himself and his ideals – and I believed in him. He latched onto the idea that the people who run the world and caused the Vietnam War were still the same people in charge – and that’s why we talked about anarchy.“It became a whole thing about youth against age.
The way that song ‘Anarchy In The UK’ begins, it’s absolutely bloodcurdling and I’ve never heard anything like it since.”Asked what went wrong, Westwood continued: “Once the Sex Pistols folded, he didn’t have any more ideas.
We had something to talk about and you don’t just get ideas, they don’t fall from Heaven.“You have to read, you have to try and understand.
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