Semi-detached suburban Sex Pistol

John Lydon is staging his own Golden Jubilee celebration

Like one of his own scratched records, Johnny Rotten took to the podium to play the same old tune yesterday.
But the former lead singer of the  Sex Pistols struggled to recreate the 'golden years' as he came out of semi-retirement.
Rotten, who now goes under his real name John Lydon, informed a bemused press pack that he and the other three surviving members of the band were reforming for the Queen's Golden Jubilee.
But the once wide-eyed face of punk - and a man credited with changing musical history - came across as a spent force as he launched into a foul-mouthed tirade littered with smutty innuendo.
In a plea to fans to support their one-off gig, he boomed: 'I'm here to tell you, July 27 we are going to be playing in Crystal Palace Sports Centre - £32.50, hardly breaking the ******* bank is it?'
The band also plan to re-release the controversial hit God Save The Queen on May 27, exactly 25 years after its initial release and just a few days before Jubilee Day, June 3.
The anti-monarchist record was deemed so subversive the first time round that the number one slot was left blank in the week it sold most copies.
But Lydon, once the scourge of the establishment, no longer carries quite the same amount of terror and revulsion he instilled in his 1977 heyday.
The gaunt, contorted features of his youth have filled out over the years, and he now boasts a paunch of the contented. And indeed he has much to be contented about.
The son of a lorry driver from Finsbury Park, North London, he now lives in Los Angeles and while in the capital is staying in the Grosvenor Park Hotel, where suites start at £500 a night.
Asked if he was enjoying middle age, the 46-year-old replied: 'Yes, I am as it happens. I'm doing it well, you see. I'm not Pete Townshend - I never said I would die before I get old. I intend to go on and on and on and on, because I am not aware of anything after life.'
At home in Los Angeles, the man who once bragged of being the anti-Christ has settled into the humdrum routine of middle age.
An avid Arsenal fan, he is happily married to his German wife Nora, 60, whom he met in the punk days.
When asked recently what car they drive, his reply could not have been more conventional: 'A Volvo. Solid, sensible. It snows a lot where we go skiing, so it makes sense.'
Though his hair colour is still not natural, he tends not to bother spiking it up when he nips to the local Ralph's supermarket in his shorts and Timberland loafers.

'To dress absurd or to have weird hair is just to be fitting in with everybody else right now,' he told an American interviewer recently. 'Why conform?'
And he sticks rigidly to his routine - every Friday night Lydon walks from his £3million Gothic mansion to Alan's liquor store to stock up for the weekend. He piles beers cans into a cardboard box and asks for a packet of cigarettes.
'You had better quit Johnny, they are not good for you,' the shopkeeper says every time. '**** off,' comes the reply.
He has his own recording studio, but is far from a noisy neighbour - they say the only noise is from Lydon's guest house where his younger brother Martin plays with his children.
Lydon has made a fortune speculating on the property market, and now has homes in Los Angeles, Berlin and London. He also rents out a £2.5million beachfront home in Malibu, and recently purchased a plot of land in a Malibu canyon.
He does all the cooking - 'Nora doesn't know what the kitchen is for,' he once said - but music today no longer takes centre stage in his life. Instead he fills his time reading novels and academic works, writing, and researching obscure subjects. He also studies the behaviour of sharks.
He makes occasional appearances on his own live Internet talkshow - a no-holds barred forum called Rotten Talk which debates everything from politics to abortion. And there are the odd programmes for American cable TV.
And as if to confirm the end of his punk days last year, he said: 'I've found exercise makes me better. There could be a Johnny Rotten health video for Christmas.'
During his stay in Britain, the self-styled 'people's hero' will be ferried around by a chauffeur.
Although they never achieved much in the way of chart success, the  Sex Pistols enjoyed notoriety as they launched themselves on the nation by unleashing a volley of expletives on television.
Lydon will be joined by fellow band members Paul Cook, Glen Matlock and Steve Jones for the performance at Crystal Palace.
But don't expect a repeat of the 1970s explosion, when punk transfixed the nation's youth and brought parents out in a cold sweat. The Sex Pistols today are a much gentler breed.
Sid Vicious was found dead in a New York hotel in 1979 when on bail accused of murdering his girlfriend Nancy Spungen, but somehow the others have survived the aftermath of punk and are now settling sedately into middle age.
Drummer Cook, now 44, lives the peaceful life with his wife Jenny, a jeweller, and their teenage daughter Holly in a £500,000 house in Shepherd's Bush, West London - never having left the area he grew up in. He said recently: 'I've had enough of the rock 'n' roll world. I prefer the quiet life.'
The son of a joiner, Cook was stabbed and clubbed with an iron bar at the height of the Pistols fame. These days he spends his time studying history and is something of an expert on Joan of Arc and The Hundred Years War.
Matlock, 44, widely considered to be the brains of the group, now looks more like a bank manager and fronts his own band, The Philistines.
He was also musical director of a pantomime - his songs in Jack and the Beanstalk delighted audiences in Notting Hill - and has penned his autobiography, I Was A Teenage Sex Pistol.
He divides his time between his girlfriend Carol Garner and their two young sons who live in Southampton, and his own £300,000 flat in Little Venice, West London. He gave up alcohol when it threatened to destroy his liver a couple of years ago.
Bass player Matlock wrote the Sex Pistols' three biggest and most scurrilous hits, Anarchy In The UK, God Save The Queen and Pretty Vacant.
But he fell out with Rotten and was replaced by Sid Vicious in 1977. Manager Malcolm McLaren later claimed that Matlock had been ousted for liking The Beatles.
Guitarist Jones, 46, is now quietly struggling to carve out a career as an actor in Los Angeles.
He attends Alcoholics Anonymous meetings almost every day and runs an amateur football team called Hollywood United, whose star players include Vinnie Jones and Rod Stewart.