5/24/2023 0 Comments Billy idol johnny rotten![]() ![]() The comments about Green Day are consistent with an interview Lydon did with Rolling Stone several years ago, during which he confessed to having “never been a fan of them”. ![]() And I wanted to do new and different things, which is, to my mind, what punk is all about: Do it yourself, which means be true to yourself.” However, Lydon’s qualms are with more than just attachments to certain periods in history, and regardless of Green Day’s more political material he argues “Punk wanted to maintain the cliché and the uniformity that it didn’t deserve. Green Day’s breakthrough album Dookie, their third overall, was released in 1994 – making it closer to Sex Pistols debut Never Mind the Bollocks, Here’s the Sex Pistols than it is to the present day. ![]() A turgid version of something that doesn’t actually belong to them.” “I look at them, and I just have to laugh. “How many bands are out there like Green Day now?” the singer – real name John Lydon – told the New York Times. His latest target is Green Day, and when we say ‘latest’ we mean ‘he’s been on about them for years’, but there’s now a new interview where he takes another dig. ![]() Johnny Rotten found it much easier to take aim when he was coming through with the Sex Pistols, but now he has found different targets, namely other interpretations of punk as a genre. Punk has always been all about standing up to the establishment, but how are you supposed to interpret that when you have been through and out the other side? ![]()
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