Sex Pistols frontman Johnny Rotten lashes out at Green Day: "They're turgid coat hangers"
Sex Pistols frontman John Lydon, more famously known by his stage name Johnny Rotten, has hit out at Green Day, questioning the band's punk credibility and calling them an "embarrassment" to the punk ethos.
In a recent interview with the New York Times, the 62-year-old pioneer of punk discussed the state of the genre in the modern landscape and why he decided to move away from it. After the Sex Pistols disbanded in 1978, Johnny Rotten went on to found his own band, Public Image Ltd, which was far more experimental in nature and described in a 2005 NME review as "arguably the first post-rock group." Although never as controversial or commercially successful as the Sex Pistols, the band produced eight albums before they went on hiatus in 1993 and reformed in 2009.