"John’s always been super opinionated. It doesn’t bother me." Billy Idol laughs off John Lydon's criticism of his work with Steve Jones and Paul Cook in Generation Sex, gives a thumbs up to the new Sex Pistols line-up

Generation Sex.

Billy Idol has laughed off John Lydon's criticism of his work with Sex Pistols duo Steve Jones and Paul Cook in Generation Sex, admitting, "It doesn’t bother me."

Public Image Ltd frontman, and former Sex Pistol, Lydon has taken every available opportunity to bash his former bandmates' hugely successful alliance with former Gallows/Rattlesnakes frontman Frank Carter, and in a recent interview with PA News (reported in The Independent) Lydon extended his vitriol to include Jones and Cook's shortlived project with Idol and Tony James, who played Glastonbury festival and Iggy Pop's Dog Day Afternoon festival in 2023.