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You thought the Peter Hook and New Order dispute<\/a> or even the latest round<\/a> of Morrissey vs. Marr was going to suck all the drama out of Britain\u2019s over-60 rocker community? John Lydon, a.k.a. Johnny Rotten, has made his feelings clear about the Sex Pistols reuniting without him<\/a> and recruiting a new lead singer to tour: It\u2019s a load of shite. \u201cI\u2019ll never forgive them for the way that they piled that court case on me while my wife was dying of Alzheimer\u2019s,\u201d he told Rolling Stone<\/a>. \u201cIt was a most unfortunate act on their part, and then using Disney to strip-mine me.\u201d The Disney of it all refers to Lydon losing a 2021 lawsuit<\/a> to his bandmates, guitarist Steve Jones and drummer Paul Cook, over the Sex Pistols\u2019 music rights for the tepidly received<\/a> miniseries Pistol. \u201cIf I didn\u2019t raise, say, $10 million after the first week, the case couldn\u2019t go on. That\u2019s money I could have spent taking care of my lovely Nora,\u201d added Lydon, referring to his wife. \u201cThey knew she was ill.\u201d Nora Forster died in 2023; the couple had been married for over four decades. Lydon said none of his former bandmates reached out to him after her death. \u201cIt\u2019s in the minus infinities,\u201d he said about current reunion chances. \u201cThe dirt that they unloaded on me in a time where I was in real serious grief \u2026 No, I cannot forget about that.\u201d<\/p>\n Lydon insists he is at a point in his life where he\u2019s not looking for revenge and has zero interest in performing Sex Pistols music \u2014 the 50th anniversary of Never Mind the Bollocks, Here\u2019s the Sex Pistols is soon approaching \u2014 with another band. \u201cI don\u2019t have spite in me,\u201d he said. \u201cMy God, it\u2019d be nice to think that they were angry and furious at my wonderful solo adventures, but that would be it. No, if they\u2019d gone about this another way and were open and friendly with me, who knows what gifts that may have brought, but they decided skullduggery was the order of the day.\u201d Fans attending Riot Fest in Chicago will have an ultimatum to make come September: Both Lydon\u2019s Public Image Ltd and the new Sex Pistols, which features Jones, Cook, bassist Glen Matlock, and newbie Frank Carter on lead vocals, are sharing the bill. So, there is some future in England\u2019s dreaming.<\/p>\n Related<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photo: Katja Ogrin\/WireImage You thought the Peter Hook and New Order dispute or even the latest round of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":818341,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[49,48,75,161447,286894,341,20530,286895],"class_list":["post-818340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-john-lydon","tag-johnny-rotten","tag-music","tag-sex-pistols","tag-this-counts-as-anarchy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=818340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818340\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/818341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=818340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=818340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=818340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}