In the 1970s he was Johnny Rotten, the frontman of the Sex Pistols and the angry face of punk rock. His hard-edged songs, including Anarchy in the UK, full of rage and nihilism, chimed with unemployment and industrial unrest in run-down Britain and attracted an army of safety-pin-pierced fans.
Today the safety pin John Lydon, now 65, wears holds together his broken spectacles. His home in sunny California is a long way from the UK and his daily routine is as far from anarchy as he can manage. His wife, Nora Forster, 78, suffers from Alzheimer’s disease and needs orderliness and calm, he says. Feeding, dressing and caring for her is a full-time job, to the point where he hasn’t had time to go
