There’s another poignant aspect of the author’s early life of crime. It was a psychosexual thrill, a feeling he traces to watching his mother loot a lingerie shop when he was a young boy. Yet larceny wasn’t simply a way to survive. Jones wasn’t good at schoolwork, due to “being dyslexic and/or having ADHD.” He also never wanted to have a regular job (and basically never has). He remembers that he even preferred reform school to his family’s London apartment.
After that, the kid found lots of excuses not to be at home. Eventually, the boy acquired a stepfather, one of several men, Jones alleges, who sexually abused him. And of those two, Jones had by far the lousier time.īorn in 1955 to a single mother, Jones didn’t meet his biological father until he was in his 50s. Only Jones and Cook, childhood friends, grew up on the fringe of poverty. In fact, John “Rotten” Lydon and original bassist Glen Matlock were middle class, as was Matlock’s self-destructive replacement, John “Sid Vicious” Ritchie. The Sex Pistols, who initially existed just from 1975 to 1978, were often portrayed as products of London’s most hopeless precincts. These include drunken driving and drug possession, but Jones’s real passions were shoplifting, burglary and car theft. The guitarist had been arrested 13 times, he acknowledges in “ Lonely Boy.” Although he doesn’t list each charge, he does recall plenty of infractions. Now Jones has written his memoir, and it fully explains the U.S.
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