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Save Sex Pistols Graffiti, Archeologists Plead

Rob Quinn — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 00:43:00 CST

Graffiti scrawled on the walls of a London flat by the Sex Pistols' Johnny Rotten in the '70s is worth preserving and can be compared to ancient cave paintings, top archaeologists are arguing. Researchers who studied the graffiti in an apartment once occupied by the punk pioneers call the scribbling...

Johnny Rotten Open to Sex Pistols Reunion

Nick McMaster — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 18:17:44 CST

It's been 33 years since the Sex Pistols recorded their now-classic Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols —and the band, despite its legendary status, hasn't recorded any new music since then. However frontman John Lydon—better known as Johnny Rotten—tells Stereogum that could all change. After a...

Johnny's Still Rotten, Says Foe

Will McCahill — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 18:21:41 CDT

The lead singer of British band Bloc Party says he was the victim of a racist attack by the frontman of punk legends the Sex Pistols and his cronies. Kele Okereke, of Nigerian descent, was left with a split lip and bruises after the incident Saturday in Barcelona with John...