The biggest tragedy for me and Nora,’ says Lydon, ‘is that we lost a couple of children. It wrecked us emotionally, it really did. But although Nora’s miscarriages destroyed us emotionally, it didn’t wreck us as a couple, even though those times were extremely difficult. We became stronger afterwards, and no, I don’t wish that we could have had children because things wouldn’t be the way they are now.””