>
>Nope. It's Lydon interviewed in the current isue of
>Rolling Stone Russia. I assume it's a translation from
>the magazine's English-language version.
Something must have been lost in translation. They interviewed both of them and the bit with Journey was Steve Jones talking.
>At fifty-one, Jones is keenly attuned to the
>motion of any female figure on either side of
>Santa Monica Boulevard and more than willing to
>share details of his experience with Viagra or
>the curative powers of amatory dress-up. What he
>had not shared, until recently, is that even
>during the Pistols days he secretly preferred
>colossal mainstream bands like Queen, Boston and
>Journey to the bands on the punk scene.
Lydon called the article a hatchet job produced by hippies with laptops:
>We were surprised to see you in ‘Rolling Stone’
>last month. Not only because it was 18 months
>too late, but there wasn’t even a mention on the
>cover! You wouldn’t have known it was in there. Very strange.
>
>I frankly find it pathetic that it took them so
>long to print an article that’s already out of
>date. That’s a long time to spend on a hatchet
>job, they must have really been struggling to
>find flaws. And secondly the article was about
>us not going to the Hall of Fame – yet it isn’t!
>
>They had promised us the front cover at the
>time, that’s why we did it. I wouldn’t have
>bothered with them otherwise. I had talked with
>Anita Camarata – Steve and Paul’s management –
>beforehand, and she assured me it was not going
>to be another poison pen piece. I presume that’s
>what they told her. Which is why ‘Rolling Stone’
>hired a writer, but the end result was more of
>the same. Thank you. Never trust a Hippie. We
>said it a long time ago and it’s not really
>changed. And these are hippies with laptops.
>They even misunderstood that part!
>
>‘Rolling Stone’ is the complete dogs bollocks of
>establishment but it likes to pretend it’s very
>lefty and trendy. Which it isn’t. It’s as
>bourgeois as ever. It really is pompous. It’s
>Clinton’s Saxophone! (laughs) It’s written for a
>smug kind of in-crowd. It’s for like Hippies I
>suppose from that generation; that have grown up
>into corporate lawyers. And this is the kind of
>way they like to read about their music. I think
>though, they especially picked us out for a
>slamming. Which to my mind shows an undercurrent
>of affection for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame;
>rather than the band. It’s more celebrating the
>museum than the actual artifact.
http://www.johnlydon.com/interviews/jl07.html