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John Lydon says he will never return to ‘woke’ Sex Pistols

The singer hit out at his previous band’s ‘dirty deeds’

The Independent UK

"Touring Australia with the Sex Pistols was horrendous. Seeing the audience doing Nazi salutes really wore me down, and Johnny Rotten didn’t say anything." Skunk Anansie's Skin recalls "violent" 1996 tour with the Sex Pistols

For Britrock stars Skunk Anansie, joining the Sex Pistols Filthy Lucre reunion tour was one of the worst experiences of their lives

Metal Hammer

Sex Pistols star once confessed to stealing from David Bowie: ‘He thought it was funny’

‘I was like the Phantom of Hammersmith Odeon,’ musician said

The Independent UK

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Sex Pistols’ Steve Jones: ‘I like to fart in front of people. You can tell if someone’s cool from their reaction’

The punk guitarist on the ideal length of gigs, stealing from David Bowie’s trucks and dealing with an ornery Jerry Lee Lewis

The Guardian - AU

"Everybody needs this band right now. America is screaming out for a band like the Sex Pistols." Sex Pistols, with Frank Carter, announce first North American tour in over two decades, starting at a venue where they had pig hooves thrown at them in 1978

America, prepare yourselves for the return of the world's greatest punk band

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The Sex Pistols announce first North American tour in 2 decades

The Sex Pistols will tour North America for the first time since 2003 this fall

The Independent UK

"Open the dance floor, you’ll never get to do it again." Forget John Lydon's bitter and boring "karaoke" jibes, with Frank Carter up front, the Sex Pistols sound like the world's greatest punk band once more

The rejuvenated Sex Pistols - or Frank Carter, Steve Jones, Glen Matlock and Paul Cook if we must legally refrain from using that name - deliver a joyous start to this year's Teenage Cancer Trust at the Royal Albert Hall gig week

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Sex Pistols at the Royal Albert Hall review: 'excitement threatening to explode'

4/5 The Teenage Cancer Trust gigs kick off with Sex Pistols storming the venerable Hall with Frank Carter replacing John Lydon up top

Evening Standard

Sex Pistols delight fans at Royal Albert Hall gig for Teenage Cancer Trust

It came as the first in a series of gigs raising money for the cancer charity

Evening Standard

"How many of you were here the first time around?": The Sex Pistols are back at the 100 Club after nearly 50 years

Band play the Royal Albert Hall tonight

MusicRadar

Sex Pistols tear through classics with Frank Carter on secret 100 Club return

They performed as Spots (Sex Pistols On Tour Secretly) as they had done during the late 1970s to book shows when they were being shut down.

Evening Standard

Sex Pistols recall Vietnam vets with cattle prods hired to keep them in line on tour

The infamously fraught American tour concluded with John Lydon announcing the band’s break-up

The Independent UK

“The audience was throwing everything from bottles to rats to pig’s ears at the stage." The Sex Pistols look back on their wild, dangerously out-of-control and ultimately doomed first US tour

"We were thrown into the lion’s den and it was a pretty dark time."

Louder

“I've got no hard feelings towards John”: Sex PIstol Steve Jones is open to a truce with John Lydon

But Lydon is certainly not up for new Sex Pistols output: "Never Mind the Bollocks Part 2'? "F*** off, you idiot'"

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John Lydon doesn't understand why anyone would 'expect' a second Sex Pistols album

John Lydon doesn't understand why anyone would "still expect" a follow-up to the sole Sex Pistols album because his taste in music was so eclectic to begin with.

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Sex Pistols guitarist Steve Jones wants to make peace with Johnny Rotten

Steve Jones has revealed that he is keen to make peace with his former Sex Pistols bandmate Johnny Rotten, even though the pair haven't spoken since 2008.

The Independent UK

Lars von Trier is exciting and enraging – his Parkinson’s diagnosis spells doom for cinema

INSIDE FILM: As the controversial director behind ‘Antichrist’ is admitted to a care centre for Parkinson’s weeks after the death of David Lynch, Xan Brooks wonders whether this may be the endgame for a certain strain of uncompromising left-field cinema

Louder

“It wasn’t even worth asking John about the reunion tour”: Sex Pistols guitarist Steve Jones hasn’t spoken with John Lydon since 2008

Lydon recently hit out at Sex Pistols’ comeback with Frank Carter on vocals, calling it “karaoke”

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John Lydon feels ‘half’ the man he was since death of his wife

In an emotional interview about the devastating impact of her passing on his life, John Lydon has admitted he feels like “half” the man he was since the death of his wife.

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John Lydon struggling with 'deep pain' after losing wife

John Lydon has lost "about 50 per cent" of himself following the 2023 death of his wife Nora Forster.

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“They’re absolutely going to kill all that was good with the Pistols by eliminating the point and the purpose of it all”: John Lydon writes off Sex Pistols tour as "karaoke"

As the band prepare to head out on tour without their original frontman, Lydon has a few things to say about it

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John Lydon processing grief through new PiL music

John Lydon has found working on Public Image Ltd's new album helpful in working through his grief for late wife Nora Forster.

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“There was a full moon and the curtains were open. Every time I looked up for ideas, I looked at the moon”: How teen prodigy Kate Bush created her timeless classic Wuthering Heights

“Those shrieks and warbles are beauty beyond belief,”said John Lydon

The Independent UK

How The Face magazine turned style into an art form

4/5 This pulsating show at the National Portrait Gallery explores the photographs that defined what was cool in Britain from 1980 to the present

Louder

John Lydon is "pissed off" about the Sex Pistols replacing him with Frank Carter: "they’re trying to trivialise the whole show to get away with karaoke"

Former Pistol John Lydon says he's annoyed that the punk icons reunited without him

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