Conan told a story when he had Gregg Allman on his TBS show that when Johnny said they despised the Allman Brothers, Gregg and Dickie Betts heard it backstage and tried to kick his ass, but Johnny ran out of the building before they could get to him.
Say what you want about Johnny, but he was and is one of a kind, a true individual. I've never seen anybody like him. And consider that the Pistols only made one album, and they're still considered one of the greatest punk bands of all time.
It amuses me how quiet the U.S audience are. They're so used to see smiling, fake celebs flirting away all concerned about how charming they come across. John Lydon is the real thing, zero bullshit.
John is probably on the spectrum somewhere. And one of the symptoms is having an inability to lie and say things how they are even at the cost of other peoples feelings. I believe John’s stories more than anyone else involved in the band