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Authors: John Lydon

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4. With Mum in Highbury Fields, wearing my Mum’s handbag: ‘Hold that while I fix your belt.’

5. Progression! Early school days, aged 6 or 7, pre-meningitis, working out a jigsaw.

6. At 11 or 12, I had to wear glasses after meningitis.

7. Circa 1972, aged 16, 17 in my Roundhouse phase.

8. With John Gray in Finsbury Park playpark, just prior to the Sex Pistols, when I was working at the play centres, looking after problem kids. John’s
wearing a Vivienne Westwood top, made of black shiny latex. If you’ve got it, flaunt it!

9. Underage drinking - Lydon’s fave! That’s my brother Jimmy
(left)
with John Stevens (pre-Rambo). As two families, we were very close.
Rambo would take my place on family caravan holidays.

10. First picture of the Sex Pistols, in the back yard of a pub we were rehearsing above in Chiswick, in August-September 1975.
(l-r)
me, Glen
Matlock, Steve Jones, Paul Cook. Thank God I had the sense to bring John Gray along, and he had the sense to bring a camera - something that didn’t occur to Malcolm!

11. Forced fun doing photos for Malcolm in Carnaby Street, April 1976. I’ve always been at odds, even in my own band.

12. Live at the Soho strip club, El Paradise, London, 4 April 1976. There I am, wearing my favourite stripper’s outfit.

13. Fiddling about in row boats on the Serpentine because we had nothing better to do, circa April 1976. Nobody knew how to row a boat except me, and I
wouldn’t.

14. There’s not many people that can hang out with their mum, but my mum was up for a giggle. I’d just bought her a blow-up man-doll.

15. Nora, me, John Gray and Paul Young on our way to Hampton Court in May 1977, wearing A&M promo shirts for ‘God Save The Queen’.

16. Live at Dunstable Queens Hall, 21 October 1976. There I am, cleaning the floor. I always left the stage cleaner than when I went on.

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