“I don’t need a Rolls Royce, I don’t need a house in the country, and I don’t want to have to live in France. I don’t have any rock and roll heroes, they’re dll useless. The Stones and The Who don’t mean anything anymore, they’re established. The Stones are more like a business than a band.”

—Johnny Rotten British TV interview

* * *

John Rotten is the lead singer of the Sex Pistols, the band that’s got all of England in an uproar. The Sex Pistols are the leaders of what has been called England’s “punk rock” scene (although I can’t believe they like that pressinvented term any more than our bands do), and they recently made front page headlines in Britain when an over-zealous TV interviewer provoked them into saying “fuck” on live TV.