The Sex Pistols

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    PiL's John Lydon on caring for late wife in final stages of Alzheimer's: 'She really never forgot me. Not ever. Not once.'

    This interview shows a gentler side of the cantankerous punk icon as he sheds his "suit of armor," but in true Johnny Rotten fashion, he manages to get in some jabs at Biden, Obama, and 'Pistol' director Danny Boyle.

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    Remembering John Lydon and Nora Forster, punk's greatest love story: 'Once I make the commitment, it’s forever'

    "Nora and me were very, very lucky," the Sex Pistols/PiL frontman once told Yahoo Entertainment, reflecting on his long, against-all-odds marriage to Nora Forster, an heiress 14 years his senior, who died April 6.

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    The Sex Pistols' John Lydon went on 'The Masked Singer' to help wife with Alzheimer's: 'This should bring some great joy to her'

    The punk legend also opens up about how his childhood battle with meningitis, which caused him to suffer from severe memory loss for years, was a “magnificent gift” because it ultimately helped him be more empathetic to his wife's situation.

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    Backspin: Steve Jones on the 40th anniversary of punk and whether the Sex Pistols 'could've ended up like U2'

    Jones says he rarely spends much time thinking about what might have been if the Pistols hadn’t broken up after less than three years, spectacularly imploding at the Bay Area’s Winterland Ballroom at the end of an infamous, ill-fated, 12-date U.S. tour in early 1978. “But I do wonder about it, if we could have knocked another record out,” adds Jones, revealing that the Pistols attempted to write new music during one of their reunions, in 2003, but nothing came of it.

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    Sex Pistols Frontman Johnny Rotten Calls Donald Trump ‘a Possible Friend’

    John Lydon, aka Johnny Rotten, lead singer of the Sex Pistols, went on Good Morning Britain to promote his new book, Mr. Rotten’s Songbook, and hosts Piers Morgan and Susanna Reid asked him for some of his thoughts on the current political climate. The working class have spoke, and I’m one of them and I’m with them.” Rotten, a U.S. citizen, had some thoughts on Donald Trump as well, saying, “What I dislike is the left-wing media in America are trying to smear the bloke as a racist and that’s co

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    Son of Punk Icon Malcolm McLaren Burns Original Sex Pistols Record

    Joe Corré, the son of Sex Pistols manager Malcolm McLaren and fashion designer Vivienne Westwood, burnt his original acetate of the Sex Pistols’ classic single “Anarchy in the U.K.” on Tuesday evening after it failed to sell on eBay. Corré, who is the co-founder of lingerie brand Agent Provocateur, made headlines in March when he announced his plans to torch his entire extensive lot of punk memorabilia, citing disgust with how punk has been appropriated by the commercial sector and the state.

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    The 10 Most Notorious Rock Star Interviews Ever

    Chrissie Hynde gets prickly when responding to the sexual assault controversy spurred by a revelation in her memoir (NPR Morning Edition, October 2015) While doing press to promote her new autobiography Reckless: My Life as a Pretender, Hynde has created a stir with her story about being sexually assaulted as a young woman by a gang of bikers and blaming herself for the attack. She made the shocking revelation in an interview with British newspaper The Guardian.