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It looks like John Lydon ? a.k.a. Johnny Rotten of the Sex Pistols ? could be getting ready to die.

The snarling Pistols frontman has found his band among the 15 finalists for enshrinement in the 2005 class of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, an institution Lydon once declared to be a "place where old rockers go to die."

"The Rock and Roll Hall of Shame, that's what it ought to be," Lydon complained in 2003, after the Sex Pistols were denied entry for the second year in a row ? although contemporaries the Ramones and the Clash received nods. "[That] title was clearly earned."