"Those talentless f***s can f*** right off," said Lydon, responding to a question as to whether the iconic punk band might be tempted into another reformation. "We loved each other for all of two and a half minutes. Those songs mean too much to me to go back to that situation again."

In an entertaining and lively 45 minute Q&A session Lydon also revealed that he'd been asked to work on a duet with Kate Bush, but that the female vocalist ultimately rejected his song, Bird In Hand, which he recalled as "a song about the illegal parrot trade."