Don't say that Johnny Rotten, excuse, Sir John Lydon was in The Sex Pistols. He finds that rather offensive, even as he tours with the reconstituted band. He wants everybody to know that he was in PiL. Because at least they had a hit on MTV.
I take it you're not familiar with the memes he used to post in his first couple of years here. He eventually had to stop because he was getting timers for them. Yes, him, timers. They were that Rated R.