SEX PISTOL Johnny Rotten On OZZY OSBOURNE - "The Sly Innuendo Of Promoting Drug Abuse And Catatonic Stupidity Offends Me"
March 6, 2011, 13 years ago
While promoting Mr Rotten’s Scrap Book, a picture-packed volume detailing his life so far, former SEX PISTOL singer John Lydon (aka Johnny Rotten) has offered up an opinion on OZZY OSBOURNE.
“'Paranoid' was one of the world’s greatest ever singles,” says Lydon, talking about Ozzy’s most famous song, which he recorded with BLACK SABBATH.“But since then, the rumours of biting pigeon heads really, really haven’t impressed me. Ozzy now acting like a senile delinquent is equally unimpressive. The sly innuendo of promoting drug abuse and catatonic stupidity offends me.
“I’m not one for banning drugs. Quite the opposite. But I understand how to use them, and they don’t use me.
“Ozzy is clearly a victim, and selling that loser lifestyle shit to other people equally victimises them.
“That’s a shame. Ozzy’s a working class man, like me, yet he allows that to happen. By acting like he does all the time, he implies that we’re all stupid, the working classes. But we’re not, you know. We’re not! We’re the proper Britain, us lot.”
Read the entire interview here.
