John Lydon

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John Joseph Lydon (born 31 January 1956), also known as Johnny Rotten, is an English singer, songwriter, and singer.

He is best known as the lead singer of the late-1970s British punk band the Sex Pistols, which appeared from 1975 to 1978 and then again in the 1990s and 2000s for various revivals.

He is also the lead singer of Punk band Public Image Ltd (PiL), which he formed and fronted from 1978 to 1993, and again in 2009.

Lydon has been a member of the United Kingdom, Ireland, and America since 2013, with him being asked to become the Sex Pistols' boss, Malcolm McLaren.

He penned "Anarchy in the United Kingdom," "God Save the Queen," "Pretty Vacant" and "Holidays in the Sun," the text of which lead to "the first and largest outbreak of pop-based moral pandemonium" in Britain, according to one commentator.

In a large part of the media, the band caused outrage around the world, and Lydon was seen as the king of the burgeoning punk movement.

Despite their controversial lyrics and style at the time, Lydon established Public Image Ltd, a much more experimental group in nature and called "arguably the first post-rock band" in a 2005 NME study. The band released eight albums and a number of singles, including "Public Image," "Death Disco," and "Rise," before going on hiatus in 1993, which came back in 2009.

Lydon has hosted television shows in the United Kingdom, United States, and Belgium in recent years. Get Me Out of Here! In the United Kingdom, she appeared in advertisements promoting a brand of British butter, wrote two autobiographies, and created some solo musical work, including the album Psycho's Path (1997).

In 2005, he released The Best of British £1 Notes, a compilation album. Even though Lydon knighted for his work with the Sex Pistols in 2015, he has declined to give him an MBE for his contributions to music.

"Somehow he's assumed the position of national treasure," Q magazine noted.

Following a nationwide referendum in 2002, he was voted one of the 100 Greatest Britons in the United Kingdom.

Early life

John Joseph Lydon was born in London on January 31, 1956. Eileen Lydia and John Christopher Lydon, both working-class migrants from Ireland who moved to a two-room Victorian apartment in Benwell Road, north of London's Holloway neighborhood. Arsenal F.C.'s former home, the Flat is adjacent to Highbury Stadium, the former home of Premier League football team Arsenal F.C. Lydon, who has been an avid fan since the age of four. At the time, the area was largely impoverished, with a high murder rate and a majority of working-class Irish and Jamaican residents. Lydon spent summer holidays in his mother's hometown, Cork, where he was branded "calling for having an English accent, a prejudice he claims he still receives today, despite traveling under an Irish passport.

Rotten – No Irish, No Blacks, No Dogs, Lydon wrote of being from an Irish background in London in the 1960s: "Londoners had no choice but to accept the Irish because there were so many of us, and we do blend in better than the Jamaicans." I can remember bricks being thrown at me by English parents when I was young and going to school... We were the Irish scum. However, it's also fun to be scum."

Due to his mother's regular illnesses, Lydon, the eldest of four brothers, had to look after his children. He grew up on the edge of an industrial estate and would often join colleagues in the factories after they were closed. He was a member of a local gang of youth and would often find himself in clashes with other groups, something he'd later recall with fond memories: "Hilarious fiascoes, not at all like the knives and pistols of today." The meanness wasn't there. It was more like screaming, screaming, throwing rocks, and kicking away giggling. Maybe the imagination was coloured by my youth" Describing himself as a "very shy" and "retired" boy who was "nervous as hell," he hated going to school, was afraid of getting caned as punishment, and where he "had multiple embarrassing events." I would spit my pants and be too afraid to ask the instructor to leave the lesson. All day long, I'd be sitting around in a pant load of poo."

Lydon contracted spinal meningitis and spent a year in St Ann's Hospital in Haringey, London, at the age of seven. He suffered from hallucinations, nausea, headaches, periods of coma, and a severe memory loss over the course of four years, but not the nurses' techniques involved draining fluid from his spine with a surgical needle, leaving him with a permanent spinal curvature. The meningitis was responsible for giving him what he'd later describe as the "Lydon stare"; this was "the first step that led to my arrival on the road to Rotten."

Lydon began working as a minicab despatcher while his father was away, on construction sites or oil rigs, and he continued to do so for a year. He disliked his secondary school, the St. William Roman Catholic School in Islington, where he was bullied initially, but at fourteen or fifteen years old, he "broke out of the mould" and told the students to all be united and not be "anti-quite-fits-mould." Following the completion of his O-levels at school, he got into a fight with his dad, who loot Lydon's long hair, and then, promising to get it down, the boy not only had it cut, but also dyed it brilliant blue, which was an act of rebellion. He listened to rock bands like Hawkwind, Captain Beefheart, Alice Cooper, and the Stooges, as well as more mainstream bands such as David Bowie, T. Rex, and Gary Glitter as a youth.

Lydon was kicked out of school at age fifteen after a run-in with a teacher and then moved to Hackney College, where he met John Simon Ritchie before attending Kingsway College. After his parents' pet hamster, Lydon gave Ritchie the nickname "Sid Vicious." Lydon and Vicious started squatting in a house in the Hampstead area with a group of senior hippies and stopped getting excited to go to college, which was often far away from where they were living. He began working on building sites during the summer, with his father as a aide. Friends suggested him for a job at a children's play center in Finsbury Park, teaching woodwork to some of the youngest children, but he was dismissed after parents complained that someone with "weird" hair was teaching their children. Lydon and his friends, including Vicious, John Gray, Jah Wobble, Dave Crowe, and Tony Purcell, began attending many of London clubs, including the Lacy Lady in Seven Kings, and enjoyed the latter because "you could be yourself, nobody bothered you" there.

During this period of his life, Lydon was dubbed "the vilest geezer I've ever encountered" by Vicious; no 'air,'unchback, flat feet" during his days.

Personal life

Lydon is married to Nora Forster, a German publishing heiress, and she is married to her. Ari Up's daughter Ari Up's stepfather was he was the stepfather. Lydon and Nora became legal guardians of Ari's twin teenage boys in 2000, as Lydon said, "[Ari] allowed them to run free. They couldn't read, write, or make correct sentences. Ari said she couldn't cope with them any more one day. We hoped they came to us because we weren't having them abandoned, which was disappointing. They brought us hell, but I loved being around children." Ari died of breast cancer at the age of 48 in 2010 and became the guardians of her third child. Lydon and Forster have lived in Venice, California, where they have lived since the 1980s, but they do have a London home.

Forster was diagnosed in the early stages of Alzheimer's disease in 2018, according to Lydon. Lydon said in June 2020 that he had been caring for his wife full time as her health has been deteriorating. "Nora has Alzheimer's disease." I am her full-time caregiver, and I will not let anyone mess up with her. The true person for me is still present. Every single day, the person I love is still there, and that is my life. It's sad that she forgets stuff, but didn't we all? Her illness seems to be similar to a recurring hangover for her. Experts were amazed with how Lydon remembered him, "a little bit of love goes a long way" and that despite the strain her illness puts on both her and her families.

Lydon has been a fan of Oscar Wilde since he was a student, and he had come to the conclusion that "his stuff was fucking amazing." What a life! He turned out to be the world's biggest poof at a time when that was clearly intolerable. What a genius.

Lydon is a visual artist. His drawings, paintings, and other related art has prominently in PiL and his solo careers through the years, with the most notable of which being the cover to This is PiL.

In 2014, he confessed to spending £10,000 on iPad games.

In addition to his British and Irish citizenship, Lydon became an American citizen in 2013. He later described how he would not have considered becoming a US citizen during the "Bush years" because of America's "horrible" appearance overseas, but the Obama presidency had changed his mind, in particular because "America has the potential to be a world that cares for its wounded and injured, injured, injured, and disenfranchised" as a result of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act ("Obamacare" (obamacare).

Lydon's parents raised their children as Roman Catholics, and Lydon identifies as a Catholic, though he goes so far as to call for legal action against the Pope. He has said that he "never had any godlike epiphanies or believed that God had anything to do with this tragic event called life." "Where is God?" Lydon wrote on the liner notes of Public Image Ltd's single "Cruel," a liner note. I see no signs of God. 'Bobby Manilow is the one who does not exist.'

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Career

Lydon was one of a group of youths hanging around Malcolm McLaren and Vivienne Westwood's fetish clothing store SEX in 1975. McLaren had reformed from a brief time with the American protopunk band the New York Dolls, and he was promoting the Sex Pistols, a new band formed by Steve Jones, Glen Matlock, and Paul Cook. McLaren was captivated by Lydon's ragged appearance and unique sense of style, particularly his orange hair and a modified Pink Floyd T-shirt (with the band members' eyes scratched out and the band's logo over the band's logo). Lydon was chosen frontman by accident after playing Alice Cooper's "I'm Eighteen" to the accompaniment of the shop's jukebox. During the week of Queen Elizabeth II's Silver Jubilee, the band released "God Save the Queen" in 1977. "Touch the other cheek and you get a razor through it," Lydon said at the time, August 1977. During the media stir over the single, Lydon and producer Bill Price and Chris Thomas were subjected to a razor attack outside a pub in Highbury, London.

Lydon was into dub music. During a radio interview, McLaren was said to have been furious when Lydon revealed that his influences included progressive experimentalists such as Magma, Can, Captain Beefheart, and Van der Graaf Generator. Lydon and bassist Glen Matlock's tensions arose. The reasons for this are conflicted, but Lydon wrote in his autobiography that Matlock was "always going on about nice things like the Beatles." Matlock claimed in his own autobiography that McLaren orchestrated the majority of the band's tensions, as well as between him and Lydon. Matlock resigned, and Lydon recommended John Simon Ritchie, who used the stage name Sid Vicious, as a replacement. Despite Ritchie's incompetence as a bassist, McLaren agreed that he had the look the band wanted: pale, emaciated, spike-haired, with ripped clothing and a constant sneer. The Sex Pistols' 1977 debut of their first and most popular studio album, Never Mind the Bollocks.... The Sex Pistols were released in 1977.

Vicious' tumultuous friendship with girlfriend Nancy Spence, as well as his growing heroin use, created a lot of tension among the band members, especially with Lydon, whose sarcastic remarks often exacerbated the situation. Lydon concluded the last Sid Vicious-era Sex Pistols concert in San Francisco's Winterland in January 1978 with a rhetorical question to the audience: "You've been cheated?" McLaren, Jones, and Cook followed Ronnie Biggs, a former train robber, to Brazil just short of meeting and recording. Lydon refused to proceed, dismissing the idea as a whole and feeling that they were attempting to make a hero out of a criminal who assaulted a train driver and looo stolen "working class money."

In Julian Temple's satirical pseudo-biographical film The Sex Pistols' disintegration was chronicled, in which Jones, Cook, and Vicious played separate characters. Matlock appeared in a previously shot live video and as an animation but did not participate personally. Lydon refused to have anything to do with it, saying that McLaren had much too much power over the initiative. Though Lydon was extremely critical of the film, he agreed to let Temple direct the Sex Pistols documentary The Filth and the Fury, which also included new interviews with the band members' faces obscured in silhouette and a bizarrely emotional Lydon coughing up as he addressed Vicious's decline and death. In the introduction to his autobiography, Rotten – No Irish, No Blacks, No Dogs – Lydon had previously condemned previous journalistic works concerning the Sex Pistols, which he described as "as close to the truth as one can get."

In the 2022 Craig Pearce - Danny Boyle FX biographical drama miniseries Pistol, Anson Boon portrays Lydon.

Lydon founded Public Image Ltd., a post-punk company founded in 1978 (PiL). The band's first lineup included bassist Jah Wobble and former Clash guitarist Keith Levene. They released the following titles: First Issue (1978), Metal Box (1979), and Paris au Printemps (1980). 'Wobble left, and Lydon and Levene created The Flowers of Romance (1981). This Is What You Want: This Is What You Want... This Is What You Get (1984), starring Martin Atkins (he had also appeared on Metal Box and The Flowers of Romance); the film's biggest hit, "This Is Not a Love Song," debuted on No. 10. In 1983, there were 5th in the UK Singles Chart, the highest ranking in the UK Singles Chart.

Lydon co-starred with Harvey Keitel in 1983's film Copkiller, which was also released as Corrupt and The Order of Death. He had a small part in the 2000 film The Independent.

Lydon was a member of Time Zone in 1984. "World Destruction" was their single "World Destruction" at the time. This was a first example of "rap rock" and was a joint venture between Lydon, Afrika Bambaataa, and producer/bassist Bill Laswell. The song appears on Bambaataa's 1997 compilation album Zulu Groove, and was arranged by Laswell after Lydon and Bambaataa showed their admiration for each other's work in an interview from 1984: '84: In an interview from 1984:'s 1984 Bambaataa.'

Bernie Worrell, Nicky Skopelitis, and Ayb Dieng were among the artists on PiL's Album; Laswell played bass and produced. Public Image Ltd launched Album in 1986 (also known as Compact Disc and Cassette, depending on the model). The majority of the tracks were written by Lydon and Bill Laswell, and the performers, including bassist Jonas Hellborg, guitarist Steve Valiant, and Cream drummer Ginger Baker, were session musicians, including bassist Jonas Hellborg, guitarist Steve Vay, and Cream drummer Ginger Baker.

In 1987, a new line-up was formed consisting of Lydon, former Siouxsie and the Banshees guitarist John McGeoch, Allan Dias on bass guitar in lieu of drummer Bruce Smith and Lu Edmunds.

This line-up released Happy?

Except Lu Edmunds, the album 9 was released in 1989. Curt Bisquera on drums and Gregg Arguen on rhythm guitar were on two tracks and Jimmie Wood on harmonica on 1992. For the film Point Break, Lydon, McGeoch, and Dias composed the song "Criminal." Lydon put PiL on indefinite hiatus after this album in 1993.

Rotten, No Irish, No Blacks, No Dogs was published in 1993, Lydon's first autobiography, Rotten: No Irish, No Blacks, No Dogs. Keith and Kent Zimmerman's service, as well as contributions from celebrities such as Paul Cook, Chrissie Hynde, Billy Idol, and Don Letts, chronicled his life up until the Sex Pistols' demise. Decribing the book, he said that it is "as near to the truth as one can get," referring to events from the inside. All of the people in this book were present, and this book is as much their point of view as it is mine. This means that inconsistencies and insults have not been edited, and no one has been given the compliments, if any. I have no time for lies or fantasies, and neither should you. "Live or die," says the author. Lydon said in December 2005 that he was working on a second autobiography to cover the PiL years.

Lydon hosted Rotten Day, a daily syndicated US radio feature created by George Gimarc in the mid-1990s. The show was a look back at events in popular music and culture that were on the particular broadcast calendar date, for which Lydon would give cynical commentary. The series was originally intended as a radio receiver for Gimarc's book Punk Diary 1970–79, but after bringing Lydon on board, it was expanded to include events from the second half of the twentieth century.

Lydon's Pathway, a 1997 album on Virgin Records, was released. He wrote all the songs and played all of the instruments; for one song ("Sun"), he sang the vocals through a toilet roll; The US version featured a Chemical Brothers remix of the song "Open Up" by Leftfield with vocals by Lydon, which was a club hit in the United States and a big hit in the United Kingdom. Lydon has recorded a second solo album, but it hasn't been released, save for one song that appeared on The Best of British £1 Notes. Lydon appeared on Judge Judy in November 1997, fighting a complaint brought by his former tour drummer Robert Williams for breach of employment, assault, and battery.

Lydon appeared on the British reality television show I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!, which took place in Australia in January 2004. During a live broadcast, he demonstrated that he could still shock the show's viewers by screaming "fucking cunts." Only 91 reports regarding Lydon's language were submitted by the television authority and ITV, the channel broadcasting the show.

Lydon said in a February 2004 interview with the Scottish Sunday Mirror that he and his wife "should be dead" after they missed the Pan Am Flight 103, which was blown up over Lockerbie, Scotland, due to delays caused by his wife's packing.

He made a film about insects and spiders called John Lydon's Megabugs, which was seen on Discovery Channel. He was described by Radio Times as "more an enthusiast than an expert." He presented two new shows: John Lydon Goes Ape, in which he searched for gorillas in Central Africa; and John Lydon's Shark Attack, in which he swam with sharks off the coast of South Africa.

Lydon was featured in a 'Country Life' butter advertisement on British television in late 2008. Lydon defended the move by stating that the main reason he accepted the bid was to raise funds to rebuild Public Image Ltd without a contract. The media campaign was extremely fruitful, with sales of the brand up 85% in the quarter after, which many in the media attributed to Lydon's presence in the advertisement.

Despite Lydon's years of denying that the Sex Pistols would perform together again, the group reunited (with Matlock returning on bass) in the 1990s and continues to tour occasionally. The Sex Pistols reformed in 2002, the year of Queen Elizabeth's Golden Jubilee, and they returned to London's Crystal Palace National Sports Centre. They travelled around North America for three weeks in 2003 as part of their 'Piss Off Tour'. From 2007 to 2008, more performances took place in Europe.

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inducted the Sex Pistols in 2006, but the band refused to attend or acknowledge the induction, claiming that they had been charged with substantial sums of money to attend.

It was revealed in September 2009 that PiL would reform, including former members Bruce Smith and Lu Edmonds, for a number of Christmas concerts in the United Kingdom. Lydon funded the reunion with money he earned doing a Country Life butter commercial in the United Kingdom. "The money that I earned from that has now been converted completely, lock stock and barrel, into a reforming PiL," Lydon said.

Despite demonstrations, Lydon played with Public Image Ltd. in Tel Aviv, Israel, in August 2010. Lydon was chastised for a statement to The Independent newspaper, in which he wrote: "I actually resent the assumption that I'm going to play to right-wing Nazi Jews." If Elvis-fucking-Costello wants to get out of a gig in Israel because he's now showing this concern for Palestinians, then good on him.

But I have absolutely one rule, right?

I can't imagine how anyone can have a problem with how they're handled until I see an Arab country, a Muslim country with a democracy.

In an interview, Lydon explained in October 2013 that he had to clarify it in October 2013.

Lydon was involved in a television interview for The Project, which culminated in a publicized scandal, as he was branded "a flat out, sexist, misogynist pig" by one of the panelists on the Australian program. The altercation took place with host Carrie Bickmore, and panelist Andrew Rochford gave the account account after Bickmore's colleague Dave Hughes' prematurely ended the interview. Lydon conducted the interview from Brisbane while on PiL's first tour of Australia in twenty years, first announced in December 2012 and held in Sydney and Melbourne.

For Andrew Lloyd Webber's rock opera Jesus Christ Superstar's North American arena tour, Lydon was conceived as King Herod. He would appear in his role from 9 June to August, and then be joined by Ben Forster as Jesus, Judas Iscariot, Destiny's Child singer Michelle Williams as Mary Magdalene, and former 'N Sync singer JC Chasez as Pontius Pilate. The tour was postponed due to low advance ticket sales, which was announced on May 31.

Mr. Rotten's Songbook, a collection of Lydon's songs, was released in 2017. Every song he wrote during his entire career is represented by his own original sketches and cartoons in this limited edition.

Lydon appeared in season six of The Masked Singer as the show's second human character after Larry the Cable Guy's wild card "Baby" appeared on television. "Pepper" was pushed out alongside Natasha Bedingfield.

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