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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Lindesay Irvine

A most elusive quality

A panel of "experts" has declared John Lydon the "most punk" star of all time in a poll conducted for Radio 1.

Lydon himself was predictably (punkily?) contemptuous of the ranking. "What is punk anyway? John never said he was a punk," his spokesman declared. As the other candidates in the running for "most punk" suggest, Lydon's is a good question: what on earth is the quality shared by Eric Cantona and John Peel, Liam Gallagher and Che Guevara?

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