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"John Lydon has admitted that he once turned down the chance to join Pink Floyd because he was afraid the move would look pretentious. Lydon revealed that he is a huge fan of the rock icons - despite a famous photograph of him in a T-shirt bearing the slogan &amp;#039;I Hate Pink Floyd&amp;#039; - and insisted that the band&amp;#039;s early music was a major influence on the Sex Pistols.  He told The Stool Pigeon: &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;ve no idea where I got [that T-shirt] from. You&amp;#039;d have to be daft as a brush to say you didn&amp;#039;t like Pink Floyd. They&amp;#039;ve done great stuff. Dark Side Of The Moon, I love.  &amp;quot;Two years ago when they came to LA, they asked me would I come on and do a bit of &amp;#039;Dark Side of The Moon&amp;#039; with them and the idea thrilled me no end. It would have been very, very neat but it stunk a little in my head of &amp;#039;What am I doing here?&amp;#039; I came so close to doing it, [but] it felt like I was trying to set myself up as some kind of pretentious person.&amp;quot;  Lydon went on to say that he regrets missing the opportunity and is eager to be asked again.  He added: &amp;quot;I wanted to do it. But just not when 20,000 people were there. I&amp;#039;d have gone to a studio and played around with it there. But not for the bigger picture. Privately. I&amp;#039;d love to go into the studio and do something with the album with them.&amp;quot; "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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