Read Anger is an Energy: My Life Uncensored Online
Authors: John Lydon
17. With ‘Chaos’ armband, Halmstad, Sweden, 15 July 1977. The jacket’s from an old demob suit, with a pair of leather pants. It was always mixand match with me, I was never coiffeured by Vivienne Westwood.
18. Les Deux Magots cafe, Paris, 4 September 1976. I think that’s Nora’s beret. It’s a ladies cap, worn in a jaunty beret way. That causedsome friction with the band, who thought I was being dangerous.
19. At Heathrow Airport, September 1976. It was fun going through customs with them upside down Nazi badges and crucifixes. I’m hardly supportingthese regimes, am I? It’s one of Vivienne’s original bondage jackets, before she thought, ‘Ooh, I could mass produce them…’
20. At Wessex Studios during the Never Mind The Bollocks sessions, 26 April 1977.
21. It wasn’t me, ossifer! Stopped by Police, Westbourne Grove, 23 May 1977.
22. Sex Pistols live at Stokvishal, Arnhem, Holland, 8 December 1977. The display on the wall was all about the battle there in the Second WorldWar.
23. Outside Malborough Street Magistrates Court, March 11th 1977 after receiving that stupid fine for amphetamine possession. I was really angry withMalcolm for turning up without the money. That’s his lawyer Steve Fisher at the back. Between them, they couldn’t raise 40 quid.
24. Onstage during the evening show at our legendary Christmas Day ’77 gig at Huddersfield Ivanhoes. I actually remember making that face!
25. With Sid Vicious on the tour bus, on the catastrophic Sex Pistols American tour, 8 January 1978. We always did talk, even then.
26.(l-r)Steve Jones, Sid Vicious, me, Paul Cook up against a wall, as we were often photographed, in Dryden Chambers, off Oxford Street, London 14April 1977. It was for a German magazine calledOhr. When everyone was accepting the punk clichés, I thought, ‘Well, fuck that’ and went off into Teddy Boyworld.
27. On Hellshire Beach, Jamaica, with U-Roy, February 1978. There’s some smoke tapering out of my mouth. I can’t imagine what that is.
28. With underpants, Gunter Grove roof, 1978. Some kind of bandit, that is!