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  • Anger Is an Energy

  • My Life Uncensored
  • Written by: John Lydon
  • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
  • Length: 18 hrs and 29 mins
  • 4.7 out of 5 stars (11 ratings)

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Anger Is an Energy

Written by: John Lydon
Narrated by: Derek Perkins
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John Lydon is an icon - one of the most recognizable and influential cultural figures of the last 40 years. As Johnny Rotten, he was the lead singer of the Sex Pistols, the world's most notorious band. The Pistols shot to fame in the mid-1970s with songs such as "Anarchy in the U.K." and "God Save the Queen". So incendiary was their impact at the time that in their native England, the Houses of Parliament questioned whether they violated the Traitors and Treasons Act, a crime that carries the death penalty to this day. The Pistols would inspire the formation of numerous other groundbreaking groups, and Lydon would become the unlikely champion of a generation clamoring for change.Following on the heels of the Pistols, Lydon formed Public Image Ltd (PiL), expressing an equally urgent impulse in his character: the constant need to reinvent himself. From their beginnings in 1978, PiL set the groundbreaking template for a band that continues to challenge and thrive to this day while also recording one of the '80s' most powerful anthems, "Rise". John Lydon remains a captivating and dynamic figure to this day - both as a musician and, thanks to his outspoken, controversial, and from-the-hip opinions, as a cultural commentator. In Anger Is an Energy, he looks back on a life full of incident, from his beginnings as a sickly child of immigrant Irish parents growing up in postwar London to his present status as a vibrant alternative hero.

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"A lucid, literate pleasure." ( Kirkus starred review)

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nice.

it's both beautiful and frustrating that Lydon is quite literally the physical embodiment of punk rock. you want to dislike the man and come out loving him even more.

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one must do what one must do

This guy truly slipped under my radar I obviously knew who he was in a media sense I guess but you are a great artist I totally get it thanks man

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