![]() ![]() ![]() However, in typical fashion, Rotten still believed that The Sex Pistols were still the real voice of the youth. Following the wild success of albums such as Dookie and Insomniac, the band were riding high. The truth is, in 1996, there was no bigger punk voice than Green Day. Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong would naively make a flippant remark in an interview after he was asked about the reunion of Sex Pistols, one in which he reworked the very words of Rotten and said: “I am the anti-Christ/Please buy our merchandise”. Considering that Rotten had been open about the financial motivation behind their touring plans, you’d think he’d see the funny side but, instead, he decided to try to form a bizarre public rivalry with their young contemporaries. Even though Rotten didn’t attempt to pretend that money wasn’t the sole motivation behind getting the old band back together, he couldn’t resist from trying to establish The Sex Pistols as the only true punk band going. ![]() Over the years every fucker has lived off us, and we haven’t seen penny one.” This set the tone for the reunion. These are the people that wrote the songs, and now we’d like to be paid for it. ![]() “But we’ve found a common cause, and that’s your money. “We still hate each other with a vengeance,” Johnny Rotten romantically said at the press conference announcing the tour. ![]()
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