John Lydon: “Joe Strummer’s voice irritated me to death”

In an interview with Nigel Carr John Lydon revealed because it hated the fake anguish of Joe Strummerstating that his voice “irritated me to die”. The former frontman of Sex Pistolswho at the time of the band called himself called Johnny Rottenspeaking of the singer of Clash He said: “It was the voice of Joe Strummer who irritated me to die, with his fake anguish and his nonsense on the” last war “.

Always referring to Strummer, who was missing in 2002 at the age of 50 and whose real name was

John Graham Mellorhe then continuing to say: “What he was doing was to create divisions. At the time I said to all of them: ‘Everything I want from you is that you tell your middle class experiences, so we can share them instead of coming here to imitate my people’. With this I mean my people, my culture. You make you photograph out of public housing, as if this were equivalent to integrity. No!”.

In the chat with Carr, Lydon also exposed his thought on what he thought of the texts of Strummer, making fun of his political commitment. “He stayed around, but I saw frightening situations, such as he woke up and sat in front of the sixty news with his notebook. We hypothesized that it was Bernard Rhodes (the Clash manager, editor’s note) that explained how to write a rebellious song. And he took out the phrases that effect from the comments, such as ‘Sten Gun in Knightsbridge’.” In short, Calling ”is a song on the firefighters.”