with The Sun last week. Lydon was mainly there to talk about the new PiL album ‘End Of World’, but he got a little bit retrospective as well.“I’ve heard an awful lot of American journalists pretending that the whole punk influence came out of New York”, he mused. “Well, hello?
Bands like Sweet with ‘Ballroom Blitz’ and Mud with ‘Tiger Feet’ – that’s the do that, man! T Rex, David Bowie, Slade, Mott The Hoople, The Alex Harvey Band – their influence was enormous.
And they try to write that all off and wrap it around Patti Smith. It’s so wrong!”As for what was influencing Lydon himself back at that time: “I loved X-Ray Spex, The Slits and The Adverts.
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