YMMV / John Lydon

• Overshadowed by Controversy: Long notorious for his provocative behavior, Lydon's affinity for stirring the pot would turn against his reputation in the 21st century when he made a number of right-wing populist statements that contrasted the predominantly left-wing politics of the Pistols' output and fanbase, most notoriously walking back on prior anti-Trump and anti-Brexit statements when both won and embracing them. Since then, discussion on him will typically lapse into arguments about whether or not those statements were sincere.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot: Or, at least, a good title. In 1994, he published his autobiography Rotten: No Irish, No Blacks, No Dogs. It was just begging to be titled This Is The Story Of Johnny Rotten, after the Neil Young lyric, just to preempt book critics from using it themselves.

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