When John Lydon spoke to Record Collector magazine last year he had no idea that the journalist, Joel McIver, would be using parts of the interview for his (now published) book on the making of the ‘Great Rock n Roll Swindle’. So when JohnLydon.Com brought it to John’s attention he had this to say…
“Now, I couldn’t possibly be involved in a book on the making of the ‘Rock n Roll Swindle’, because I wasn’t there. It’s nothing to do with me. I’ve got nothing to say. So any quotes of mine are being misdirected.
“When people need to do that – then they don’t know much about the making of the Swindle – but they do know about making their own swindle. Because that’s a swindle. You’re using stuff that’s actually not connected to it, and padding it up. I think he’s implying that I’m a Swindle.”
Not only that, McIver has also used quotes from interviews with John taken from The Filth and the Fury & Fodderstompf websites – interviews which are shared with JohnLydon.Com – and didn’t have the common decency to credit them. How nice of him.
This is the same journalist who emailed JohnLydon.Com in February this year to ask if we would put a link to his website on the Record Collector interview, which we willingly obliged.
Given these circumstances, we have decided to remove the whole Record Collector interview from the site.
Be warned Mr Journalist we do not tolerate thievery..