Lydon’s first autobiography—the 1994 Rotten: No Irish, No Blacks, No Dogs, with full cover credit as “with Keith and Kent Zimmerman”—had its moments, but it was constantly interrupted and padded with other people’s words, and it wasn’t a real book. This, despite an inside note of “with Andrew Perry,” is a real book—full of blather, guff, and repetition, at least a hundred pages longer than it might have been, but singing, pounding, shouting, even whispering with such a fierce intelligence you can be brought up short on any page. Lydon apologizes for nothing, praises himself for everything, claims infinite meaning for the Sex Pistols…
(
RLR Top 10, August 2015, at
Barnes & Noble)
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