{"product_id":"anger-is-an-energy-my-life-uncensored-9780062400239","title":"Anger Is an Energy: My Life Uncensored","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom the legendary frontman of the Sex Pistols, comes the complete, unvarnished story of his life in his own words.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJohn Lydon is an icon--one of the most recognizable and influential cultural figures of the last forty 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 UK\" 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFollowing 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, to keep moving. 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 eighties most powerful anthems, \"Rise.\" Lydon also found time for making innovative dance records with the likes of Afrika Bambaataa and Leftfield. By the nineties he'd broadened his reach into other media while always maintaining his trademark invective and wit, most memorably hosting Rotten TV on VH1.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJohn 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 \u003cem\u003eAnger is an Energy\u003c\/em\u003e, he looks back on a life full of incident, from his beginnings as a sickly child of immigrant Irish parents growing up in post-war London to his present status as a vibrant, alternative hero.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book includes 70 black-and-white and color photos, many which are rare or never-before-seen.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLydon, John:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003eJohn Lydon changed the game in popular music, first wreaking political chaos upon starchy mid-'70s Britain with the Sex Pistols, then shape-shifting with Public Image Ltd as a free experimentalist. He lives in Los Angeles, California.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Dey Street Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50649748406546,"sku":"9780062400239","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_37e8c022-557d-40f8-bc18-bf958048ab12.jpg?v=1733272516","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/anger-is-an-energy-my-life-uncensored-9780062400239","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}