John Lydon talks of making music with anything

John Lydon (aka Johnny Rotten), former member of the Sex Pistols, has become proficient at making music with just about anything.

In an interview with the L.A. Times, he said he makes music out of 'anything that I can see surrounding me. I have made sounds out of toilet bowls. Anything that creates a sound is a good thing. And you find a house full of that kind of stuff - particularly if you do your own plumbing. My god, you're not short for tunes.'

The singer, who now lives in California laughed off the once-rebellious apparel of punk rock in the 70s.

'When the sun comes out, everybody's happy, and that's it,' he said in that same interview. 'And it's pretty hard here in the summer, when it's 90 at 8 in the evening, to be putting on your rebellious punk rock glad rags and demonstrating in your studded leather jackets. You'll die of heat exhaustion.'

The Sex Pistols were the first British punk band to achieve mainstream success and they're often credited with popularising the fashion that went along with it. Some of their biggest songs included God Save The Queen, Anarchy In The U.K. and Pretty Vacant.

After the demise of the band in 1978, Johnny Rotten reverted to his birth-name John Lydon and formed Public Image Limited (PiL), which had a more experimental sound. They released eight studio albums.
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