According to Pistols tour manager Noel Monk and journalist Jimmy Guterman, Lydon was significantly a lot more than "the band's mouthpiece. He's its raging mind. McLaren or his good friend Jamie Reid could possibly fall a term like 'anarchy' or 'vacant' that Rotten seizes upon and turns into a manifesto, but McLaren is not the Svengali to Rotten he'd like to be perceived as.