John Lydon Says He Is Still as Angry as Johnny Rotten: ‘I Can’t Help It’

Johnny Rotten has been dead since 1978, the year the Sex Pistols broke up. That year, John Lydon, the artist formerly known as Johnny Rotten, reclaimed his birth name to form Public Image Ltd (PiL). Forty years later, the post-punk effort is still going strong, despite a relatively high turnover of band members, and is the topic of a new documentary, “The Public Image Is Rotten.”

During a wide-ranging interview with SiriusXM host Kurt Loder, Lydon talked about whether or not he’s still as angry today as he was in the ’70s as Johnny Rotten.