Chords for John Lydon - You might not like me, but I'm honest.

Anyway, let's get on with our final guest this evening.
It's such a packed [G] show and I think something for everyone.
You'll [D] agree, ladies and gentlemen.
And my last guest needs little introduction for those people who pogoed their way
during the summer of 1977 to the glorious strains of the Sex Pistols' God Save the Queen.
Since then, he's got a change of name and a change of image.
The image is now public [G] and the name is now John Lydon. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ Well, I must say, I am delighted we finally persuaded you onto the show
because we've been trying for a few years to get you to_
Oh yeah, from one disaster to another.
_ And you kept me waiting for hours.
Well, it's a long show now.
You've got to wait till the evening.
We can't leave.
Totally underwhelmed.
It's good fun though.
I'm sure you're enjoying yourself enormously here this evening, John.
Well, I'm pleased that you've given me the chance to take 500 quid off you to donate to Greenpeace.
Well, that's right.
It was 500 pounds.
[G] Big here.
Well, that's good.
And is that the charity that you're especially concerned about?
Or is it_
Well, it's as good as Zanny, isn't it?
I suppose if it's our money, it might as well go somewhere decent, mightn't it?
Well, listen, let me go through the questions here.
And I know you do a lot of interviews and you answered a lot of it before possibly,
but I've never seen you do one on TV recently.
So let me ask you, first of all, I mean, despite the success with Public Image,
you're still known mostly to people as Johnny Watton from the Sex Pistols.
Yeah, but those are people that read The Sun and The Daily Mirror and they don't [Dm] really count.
That's a lot of the population. _
_ _ _ _ _ _ Is it?
_ _ _ You're cheering.
I bet you were weeding when you got home in the morning.
Oh, there.
Well, so it doesn't bother you that people would still_
No, well, that depends.
You know, I mean, I never joined this business to be a pop idiot.
I think what I do matters.
It does change people's lives.
_ Even though the likes of Cliff Richards, for [D] instance, has been slagging me off recently.
Doesn't like that.
That's [G] beside the point.
The thing is that I am valid.
I change a lot more than our boy Cliff.
You certainly do.
I mean, that's_
no one's queering that one.
What do you think of [D] the current pop scene?
Is that_
Because really, there seems to be nothing much has changed.
Fairly mediocre.
Nobody's got any guts.
_ The wankers, really. _ _ _
_ _ Man, _ _ I've got to quote you again.
I don't know if it's genuine or not.
You said at one time, rock and roll preaches stupidity.
How so?
It certainly does, doesn't it?
I don't know.
Does it?
In what way?
Well, it used to be just flappy flares and platform boots.
And I thought all that had gone away.
No, [D] lo and behold, they now call it acid house. _ _ _ _ _
Nothing really ever changes.
I think because the English are just basically lazy.
You ain't got no guts.
_ _ _ _ Is that [Dm] the question about the film?
Which explains Thatcher. _ _ _ _ _
_ _ Oh, we have yuppies in the house. _
Now, there are rumours going round that [D] every now and then you hear the pistols,
the other pistols might be formed.
Yeah.
Do you ever get wind of that?
Is there a chance it's going to happen?
Well, yeah.
All those [G] rumours about six million being offered to me.
I wish they'd come direct.
_ Would you do it then for a lot of cash?
No, I wouldn't.
Not at any price.
I would never repeat myself. _
And I think everybody knows that about me.
You might not like me, but at least I'm damn honest.
_ _ Well, let me touch on that honestly then.
I want to go back to Sid Vicious.
_ That was one of [B] Rock's little hiccups there.
Now, what?
Well, he was honest too.
I mean, he knew he was bad news, he got rid of himself.
I'm like, next.
_ _ _ Well, we'll dwell on that for just a second, because that seems a bit unfair.
At the time, I [G] was under the impression that you were Sid's friend, that was in the band.
Yeah, I was.
That's how I can say that.
I mean, I'm not joking here.
That's an absolute fact.
Once you start messing about with heroin, really, you're kissing goodbye to your life.
And good riddance too. _ _ _ _
_ Let me, uh_
_ _ [D] _
Let me touch on another kind of like, oh my God, it's like the Johnny Carson thing.
Let me touch on another associate of yours then, Malcolm McLaren.
[Dm] Let's get some more [G] cliches together.
No, no, no, no.
Let's talk of [D] McLaren then.
What about Malcolm Claren?
He speaks about you occasionally.
Oh, yeah, yeah.
And I know you don't think_
I've seen him on your show.
No, well, we always ask about you, John, because we want to know what's happening.
But I mean, do you_
Now, you _ told me that that man was completely sober all night until he hit the cameras.
He did seem to suddenly become drunk.
Can you believe an imitation alcoholic?
_ That's Malcolm McLaren. _ _ _
All right, well, if you don't want to talk about Talkie Malkie, let me ask you about another quote here,
which is one of my [G] favorites, and I've probably got it wrong.
I think you once described sex as, I'm not sure whether it was two minutes,
30 seconds or just 30 seconds.
Yes, yeah, well, that was when I was young, when I perfected a technique. _ _ _
I was going to ask you how you managed to last so long.
That's what I was going to say.
_ Are you going to do any more films?
Because [G] I liked you in the film you did with Harvey Keitel.
Was it Order of Death?
Yeah, but all the offers since have been, like, really naff. _
I was off the drugstore cowboy as it happens,
you and I, but we were on tour, so I had to turn it down.
Could you regret that?
A shame, because I would have liked to have worked with Matt Dillon.
I know him well.
Would you?
[D] So what part would you have had in it then?
His kind of sidekick.
You know the ratty little gits?
_ _ _ That's what they'd written for me.
_ _ Funny, that. _
What about your reaction to the movie?
I can't see it myself. _ _
No, you see, you should fight typecasting, shouldn't you? _ _
When I've seen you live, I've seen you live in public image a couple of times.
I saw you at the Rainbow, on your first gig on Christmas Day,
and you seem to treat the audience with a kind of thinly veiled contempt,
which I find endearing, but at the same time odd.
Yeah, at that particular time, I mean, tell the whole story.
[Dm] They were throwing beer bottles at me.
Oh yeah, they were, yes, I suppose so.
I suppose that might have something to do with it.
But a lot of [D] the time, you do seem very contemptuous of your audience, of your fans.
No, no, no, it's all part and parcel of the fun of it all.
You've got to threaten, [G] you've got to antagonise,
you've got to use those emotions _ that the Stock, Hickman, Walkman brigade run away from.
_ I mean, how do you_
Just real feelings.
Real love, real hate.
_ But your style, your style, all this stuff, it's kind of like, it's out of vogue at the moment.
It's not sort of selling, that's not what sells at the [D] moment, right?
If honesty is a style, yeah.
Okay, well your lifestyle then, or your attitude is what_
Now, [B] do you think, I mean, how are you going to survive if you're not selling records over here
and people are [D] going for the bubblegum pop?
Well, it's just too bleeding bad, isn't it?
That ain't going to stop me.
I've [G] never ever done this for money, that's not the point.
_ _ So you just carry on doing your own thing?
Life first, money second.
Well, that sounds easy.
Ain't no bleeding touring.
There [E] you go. _ _
[Dm] _ _ _ _ It was a pleasure.
I thank you very much for coming on.
All right.
Ladies and gentlemen, John Lydon.
And now a musical act.
_ Thank you very much.
Cheers.
We were too much [G] on Saturday night.
Um, that is about all we've got time for, almost.
Um, as I said, I'd like Queen B to come on and say hello because we didn't get time to_
Sorry about that, we just ran out of time.
Too much in this show? _ _
_ I'm [B] glad I asked you back.
Queen B will be [D] on the show next week.
And now the perfect end to the perfect day after I thank all my guests of Saturday Night
Lloyd Cole, Michael Herbert, Armistead Mopan and John Lydon.
We have a bit more music from Lloyd Cole, ladies and gentlemen.
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[D] _ Young people in the next decade, I'd like [G] them to _ _ _ _ _ _ deregularize themselves.
Get rid of the rules and regulations that stifle them at the moment.
There's a _ horrible conservatism _ creeping in amongst young people,
which I'm sure is partly [D] _ responsible for the football hooliganism.
Because it tends to be that the worst are out for the ones with the most [G] money. _
_ _ To get rid of that greed for financial gain and learn to respect just human beings for what we are.
Oops, there goes the police car.
I've been arrested.
_ Again.
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