Lydon’s political anger, combined with Matlock’s penchant for catchy rock'n’roll songs, would become the band’s musical axis. With a mother from Cork (Eileen Barry) and a father, also John, from Galway,he was acutely aware of the conflict in the North, referring to the IRA and UDA on Anarchy. Lydon based part of his DIY image around “poverty” explaining safety pins were used to “stop the arse in your trousers falling out”. The original line-up of Glen Matlock, John Lydon (Johnny Rotten), Steve Jones and Paul Cook had formed in 1975 in London. He had a lot of ideas and one of them was Anarchy.” He said ‘That’s pretty good what happens next?' So I played him the next bit while John got together something from this bag of lyrics. ![]() “He said: ‘What have you got?’ I had a few ideas up my sleeve and started to play the descending riff that would become Anarchy. “I had a go at Steve for not coming up with anything,” recalls Matlock.
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