Lot 395
395
JOHNNY ROTTEN An autograph letter, signed, [n.d. but 1978] to a fan, the letter incorporating a sixteen-line poem ...I don't want a Holiday in The Sun/'Coz now I gonna make a solo Album/For Whom the Bells Tolls I'm not on the Dole!!! I Have tried to be real But I've got no star appeal/No Another/No Sod in Heaven/No Belsen was a Gas/No Never Mind the Bollocks No Egomaniac Traitor/No Future John Rotten.. 1p cut into two halves.

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JOHNNY ROTTEN An autograph letter, signed, [n.d. but 1978] to a fan, the letter incorporating a sixteen-line poem ...I don't want a Holiday in The Sun/'Coz now I gonna make a solo Album/For Whom the Bells Tolls I'm not on the Dole!!! I Have tried to be real But I've got no star appeal/No Another/No Sod in Heaven/No Belsen was a Gas/No Never Mind the Bollocks No Egomaniac Traitor/No Future John Rotten.. 1p cut into two halves.

Lot Essay

This letter and those in lots 396 and 397 were all sent to the winner of the T-shirt in lot 393. All the letters were sent to the fan on Johnny Rotten's return from the group's U.S. tour in 1978. Rotten sent all five letters together in one envelope after cutting each letter into two. He had apparantly done this to amuse the recipient who had plenty of time to spare as he was on the dole at the time.

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