John Lydon: 'I Was Too Busy Playing Daddy To Reform PiL'

Punk icon John Lydon was too busy playing dad to late stepdaughter Ari Up's twins to revive Public Image Ltd. prior to last year (11), insisting he took his role as a father figure very seriously.

The Sex Pistols star reveals he took on guardian duties to The Slits singer's kids almost two decades ago and put his music career on hold to make sure the troublesome twins got a good education.

He tells RollingStone.com, "Arianna (aka Ari Up), God rest her soul... her kids came to live with me some 15, 20 years back now. I had to get involved in Parent Teacher Association meetings and all of that.

"I'm the kind of bloke, where, if I'm going to play the daddy role, I do it."

And he admits his grandchildren weren't the best behaved kids: "God, they were horrible to deal with! I love them very much, but they were so bad, and in many ways reminded me of me when I was at that age."

Ari Up lost her battle with cancer in 2010, aged 48. Lydon announced the sad news on his website.

Thanks for the report to ContactMusic.com.

Comments

[scrymusic]

Its nice to hear something nice other than bitching.

[Vicryl 2.0]

fresh to see hear him like that, i mean every articles and interviews ive read or heard of him is just utter bitchin, whining about society...

glad to hear that even a whiny punk can be a good Dad and its not his actual children to begin with..so much kudos.

[Shiookami]

there's two sides to every story, even the most raunchy society hating punk has a good side. he honestly seems to have a high IQ, think about it.. he realizes the issues with society, then perpetuates that ordeal by recording one album and a few extra songs and still able make money every day! he may hate society, but he takes advantage of the stupidity

[THE BULGE]

Shiookami wrote:

there's two sides to every story, even the most raunchy society hating punk has a good side. he honestly seems to have a high IQ, think about it.. he realizes the issues with society, then perpetuates that ordeal by recording one album and a few extra songs and still able make money every day! he may hate society, but he takes advantage of the stupidity

He doesn't make much from the Pistols album. Hence why it's taken so long to release the new PIL album (which is funkin cool btw) On top of that if someone where to post on the internet everytime I moan about something id seem like an even more dourfaced gut than him, most of the articles on here are just extracts from whole conversations and interviews but UG realise that UG readers collectively like to bitch themselves about others bitchin this is why they will repost things Morresey and the likes have said time and time again sometimes upto two years out of date.

[almudjk]

Ari Up's dead?

[swave75]

THE BULGE wrote:

Shiookami wrote:

there's two sides to every story, even the most raunchy society hating punk has a good side. he honestly seems to have a high IQ, think about it.. he realizes the issues with society, then perpetuates that ordeal by recording one album and a few extra songs and still able make money every day! he may hate society, but he takes advantage of the stupidity

He doesn't make much from the Pistols album. Hence why it's taken so long to release the new PIL album (which is funkin cool btw) On top of that if someone where to post on the internet everytime I moan about something id seem like an even more dourfaced gut than him, most of the articles on here are just extracts from whole conversations and interviews but UG realise that UG readers collectively like to bitch themselves about others bitchin this is why they will repost things Morresey and the likes have said time and time again sometimes upto two years out of date.

Here here! Well put!