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People slagging off Jade Goody wells here's another talentless bastard who's main claim to fame is being obnoxious.
From the Times:-
f someone had told John Lydon in 1977 that in 30 years he would be advertising butter, the Sex Pistol's response would have been unprintable.
But Lydon - aka Johnny Rotten - has transformed himself from an anarchist punk into a shrewd businessman who knows his own value as a trusted, but subversive, icon of Britishness.
Sales of Country Life butter are up by 85percent since Lydon began advertising it, owner Dairy Crest said yesterday. He is tramping across the countryside on the ads, extolling the local dairy industry.
“Do I buy Country Life Butter because it's made only from British milk?” asks Lydon, dressed in a tweed suit. “No. I buy Country Life because I think it tastes the best.”
Lydon's is the most public face of the punk movement. In 1977, his band, the Sex Pistols, had just released God Save The Queen for Elizabeth II's Silver Jubilee. Lydon famously sang “I am an Antichrist” and described himself as “the worst threat to our kids since Hitler”.
Predictably, teenagers loved it, as they did Lydon's Johnny Rotten stage name - born out of the singer's lax attitude towards oral hygiene in the mid-1970s. Now, however, his teeth are a gleaming advertisement for private American dentistry.
Lydon's success is impressive. His childhood was riddled with setbacks. He contracted meningitis at the age of seven. The disease left him with damaged eyesight, a permanent curve in his spine and, he says, a “hatred and resentment” towards the outside world.
With the Sex Pistols, Lydon quickly learnt that anarchy was no way to make money.
After leaving the group, he moved to California, where he made a fortune on the property market. In 1996, he reformed the Pistols for the aptly named Filthy Lucre Tour, a move that earned him a reported £1million.
Since then he has released Anarchy in the UK as a video game on Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock, and appeared in concerts at the Brixton Academy, Manchester and Glasgow.
In 2006, the public were reminded of who Lydon was when he appeared in ITV's I'm a Celebrity ... Get Me Out of Here! He remained true to his anarchist roots and walked out before the final.
From the Times:-
f someone had told John Lydon in 1977 that in 30 years he would be advertising butter, the Sex Pistol's response would have been unprintable.
But Lydon - aka Johnny Rotten - has transformed himself from an anarchist punk into a shrewd businessman who knows his own value as a trusted, but subversive, icon of Britishness.
Sales of Country Life butter are up by 85percent since Lydon began advertising it, owner Dairy Crest said yesterday. He is tramping across the countryside on the ads, extolling the local dairy industry.
“Do I buy Country Life Butter because it's made only from British milk?” asks Lydon, dressed in a tweed suit. “No. I buy Country Life because I think it tastes the best.”
Lydon's is the most public face of the punk movement. In 1977, his band, the Sex Pistols, had just released God Save The Queen for Elizabeth II's Silver Jubilee. Lydon famously sang “I am an Antichrist” and described himself as “the worst threat to our kids since Hitler”.
Predictably, teenagers loved it, as they did Lydon's Johnny Rotten stage name - born out of the singer's lax attitude towards oral hygiene in the mid-1970s. Now, however, his teeth are a gleaming advertisement for private American dentistry.
Lydon's success is impressive. His childhood was riddled with setbacks. He contracted meningitis at the age of seven. The disease left him with damaged eyesight, a permanent curve in his spine and, he says, a “hatred and resentment” towards the outside world.
With the Sex Pistols, Lydon quickly learnt that anarchy was no way to make money.
After leaving the group, he moved to California, where he made a fortune on the property market. In 1996, he reformed the Pistols for the aptly named Filthy Lucre Tour, a move that earned him a reported £1million.
Since then he has released Anarchy in the UK as a video game on Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock, and appeared in concerts at the Brixton Academy, Manchester and Glasgow.
In 2006, the public were reminded of who Lydon was when he appeared in ITV's I'm a Celebrity ... Get Me Out of Here! He remained true to his anarchist roots and walked out before the final.
