Hurray for the reissue of “Never Mind The Bullocks”! Well, sorta. See its all well and good for the improvement of the sound and such but Johnny Rotten thinks the rest is pretty much crap. This recent release includes swag, DVD’s, books and such- things to make it worth the cost. He sat down with NME to get his opinions down in print and I’m telling you- you can’t help but admire this guy just for being so punk even now. Yes, I know he sells butter on TV but when you get down to the heart of it he totally could be cashing in on the Pistols for more than he would make eating breakfast. He opts not too- give him some credit for that. Even with legal ownership he STILL could find a way, he is, after all—Johnny Rotten no matter what. To follow are excerpts from his insightful chit chat.
But Lydon said: "As you must know, I'm keeping myself distant from that."
Then, referencing the campaign earlier this year which tried to get 'God Save The Queen' to the Number One spot in the Official UK Singles Chart to coincide with the Golden Jubilee, he continued: "It wasn't right from the start. I don't mind the records being re-released properly, that's a good thing, but I don't like the vacuous nonsense of trying to create false agendas and pretending to want to be Number One. Hello? Never did nothing for Number One. Not ever. Not in my entire life. What the fuck are you lot thinking of? I'm immediately at war with them on that."
“It's so ridiculous. They don't realise they're actually killing the fucking spirit of the thing. This is not KISS”
Lydon that went on teeny rant about how Universal should have signed Public Image Ltd. rather than the Sex Pistols, stating: "There's been bizarre, millions-of-pound offers for tours. I don't want it for any price; I could do with the money, you know, but not on that level. I can't write a song for them anymore. I've moved on. It's over."
"I don't see any progress from working with the chaps," he continued. "To me, they're still pocketed 30 years back and they haven't grown out of that. That's not fair to me, to expect me to take 10 steps back and wreck what is a perfectly healthy thing that I'm doing right now. If Universal had any sense, they'd have signed fucking PiL and not the Pistols."