"Clever, Tasty Words"

You really should take half an hour and enjoy the All Songs Considered host Bob Boilen's attempt to interview pop's legendary enfant terrible and antagonist, John Lydon, aka Johnny Rotten, of The Sex Pistols and Public Image Limited (PiL). Boilen was well prepared for the exercise, but even then he was left speechless by Lydon on more than one occasion. (Not that anyone else could have done appreciably better.) It was bracing to hear Johnny still so full of brio and opinion and humor.

You Can't Handle the Rotten