Anger Is an Energy: My Life Uncensored

John Lydon

Aug 2015 · Tantor Media Inc · Narrated by Derek Perkins

About this audiobook

John Lydon is an icon-one of the most recognizable and influential cultural figures of the last forty years. As Johnny Rotten, he was the lead singer of the Sex Pistols, the world's most notorious band. The Pistols shot to fame in the mid-1970s with songs such as "Anarchy in the U.K." and "God Save the Queen." So incendiary was their impact at the time that in their native England, the Houses of Parliament questioned whether they violated the Traitors and Treasons Act, a crime that carries the death penalty to this day. The Pistols would inspire the formation of numerous other groundbreaking groups, and Lydon would become the unlikely champion of a generation clamoring for change. Following on the heels of the Pistols, Lydon formed Public Image Ltd (PiL), expressing an equally urgent impulse in his character: the constant need to reinvent himself. From their beginnings in 1978, PiL set the groundbreaking template for a band that continues to challenge and thrive to this day, while also recording one of the eighties most powerful anthems, "Rise." John Lydon remains a captivating and dynamic figure to this day-both as a musician, and, thanks to his outspoken, controversial, and from-the-hip opinions, as a cultural commentator. In Anger Is an Energy, he looks back on a life full of incident, from his beginnings as a sickly child of immigrant Irish parents growing up in postwar London to his present status as a vibrant, alternative hero.

Ratings and reviews

Good book, if you don't mind hearing Lydon tell you how great he is....again. I get it, the man is "a genius", the Pistols had one great album, and I was totally disappointed that he loves Trump. Makes sense, both do orange in their own ways, both are larger than life and both love to tell anyone who will listen how great they are. If he is so talented, then why not more success? The longest 20 seconds of fame....ever.

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About the author

John Lydon changed the game in popular music, first wreaking political chaos upon starchy mid-1970s Britain with the Sex Pistols, then shape-shifting with Public Image Ltd (PiL) as a free experimentalist. He lives in Los Angeles, California.

A native of the United Kingdom, Audie and AudioFile Earphones Award winner Derek Perkins's audiobook narration skills are augmented by a knowledge of three foreign languages and a facility with accents. He has narrated numerous titles in a wide range of fiction and nonfiction genres. He is a member of SAG-AFTRA.