Next month the London-born but for many years California-based former Sex Pistols singer returns to Britain for a 45-date trek that will take him from Brighton to Stirling and back. Talking to The Yorkshire Post via video from his home in the US, the 68-year-old says: “I suppose now it really is down to I love talking with people. I ain’t got much to sell other than my very own existence – and that seems to be filling halls.
“I remember at the time finding the whole thing very confusing because the hard edge of it gave me a heart attack, but I suppose I had a calmer way of approaching and I found I was writing again just automatically and instinctively, and oddly enough, I had Neil Young in my mind while doing it listening to drum & bass.