“That time I took all those drugs, I was chasing myself, running round in circles thinking WHY WON’T PEOPLE LISTEN!!! I was going diddle-o. Because you think you can change something and the odds are you can’t. “The more you believe in something,” Pursey says, “the more chance there is of you either going nuts or killing yourself. It’s that kind of moronic stupidity that starts Jim’s head reeling. The only thing a certain section of Sham fans seem to want to unite is their boot with somebody else’s head. Like, for instance, why is it that two of the most prominent characters to emerge out of the punk movement can’t seem to agree about anything and invariably attack one another in print?Īnd why it is that Jimmy ‘If The Kids Are United’ Sham has his most loyal following amongst lunkhead lurchers who hate, as in HATE, nearly everybody except themselves. So let’s all unite for once in our diddle-o-ness and try to sort something out. And although he didn’t admit it in his interview with Danny Baker in last issue’s Smash Hits, it seems obvious to me that John Lydon is as diddle-o as any of us.
If you ever stop to think about anything at all seriously then you’re almost bound to go diddle-o from time to time. Instead, the good book will probably come up with something like, “Confused: thrown into disorder, mixed up.” That’s diddle-o.
Actually he’s got a great many words to say about everything, most of them unprintable, but the particular word I mean is “Diddle-o”. Jimmy Pusey Jimmy Pursey talks to Smash Hits