Sex Pistols and Public Image Ltd frontman John Lydon is being honored for his legacy as a songwriter

(Reuters) - Johnny Rotten may not like it but he is starting to become Johnny Icon. The 57-year-old former frontman of the anarchic 1970s punk band the Sex Pistols is to receive an award for his contribution to music from the music rights organization BMI, although he angrily rejected previous honors. Singer-songwriter John Lydon, who went by th...

The Public Image Ltd frontman hits out against Australian TV presenter    

'Sexual Healing' is being helmed by Sex Pistols and Glastonbury filmmaker Julien Temple

It was 1975 when fashion maven and self-styled music impresario Malcolm McLaren had his first fateful encounter with the then-17-year-old John Lydon, soon to be notoriously rechristened Johnny Rotten. The precocious Lydon was wearing an old Pink Floyd T-shirt that he had refurbished with the words “I HATE” scrawled across the...