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I know - and he has dined out on the story for the past 40 years and counting -every TV show, every talking performance, every book. He's doing another 'I had meningitis' tour in 2021 too - 75 quid per ticket for a compendium of meningitis, Malcolm, Pil Tour Butter money - with an encore of Trump is alright .
All best thoughts to you J. Thanka for your never ending creative drive. I share your pain today. B strong as ever. Love your last album it s like the new moon rising. Believe it x❤
@@lusio7182 that's because he really didn't give a fuck at all about what was the "standard" in media and what was considered acceptable. He said what he wanted and he meant it. People were just too afraid of that and still are to this day there isn't really any freedom is there just the delusion of it until someone crosses the line
"Time moves on, you can't live in the past, only a fool looks back to last year or the year before"....I wonder if he realised that years later he would be doing just that. I can't think of anybody in the music business that talks about the past as much as John Lydon. The Sex Pistols were only around for two and a half years and only ever recorded one album yet John Lydon even today goes over and over that period of his life. Yes it was an important part of musical history and that one album was a masterpiece but how many years can he talk about it? There is nothing left for him to say. He has said it all over and over again.
I think because we usually think, especially at the height of success or in youth, that new chapters will get written, that things as good can come or will be created, but if time proves you wrong, it's difficult to have this mindset and you get sucked in the glory of the past, especially if you have disdain for the present or great disappointments.
@@lorenbrookes8547 Yep. In today's interviews, you see him being introduced as "John Lydon from the Sex Pistols", and even when he corrects the interviewer saying that he was in PIL and that he considers that project better than the pistols, they pay him no mind and keep asking questions about things that happened ages ago
The interviewer is Molly Meldrum, big figure in Australian music who hosted the show Countdown. I read in his autobiography that he attempted to interview John and Sid in '77 but one of them flicked a cigarette in the cameraman's eye and it resulted in a brawl and Meldrum wailed on John. Apparently the camera was rolling as this happened. I would have loved to see that footage lol
Oh I dunno. Every now and then an interview locks into place with him. It's rare, but it does happen from time to time. Conan O'Brien handled him well, and so did Tom Snyder in his 2nd interview with him (the first Snyder interview was an utter disaster).
It seems that he was like that for a while and then sometime near or after he and his wife missed that fateful Lockerbie PanAM flight, he almost magically became more gregarious for some strange reason. Look at the various interviews around the mid to late eighties.
@@johndaarteest True. He started to progressively mellow out a little bit these past 10/15 years or so. Throughout all the '90s and up to the mid '00s he was pretty much still eating journalists. I think a lot of his mellowing has to do with ageing too. Quite a normal thing.
He went through a lot of crap in his youth. He experienced hardcore racism being Irish. He went through some really bad stuff and his anger is justified
Well let's see... his mom (who he was extremely close to) had just died from stomach cancer. His best friend had just died from being od'd on smack by his own mother. His last band had imploded in a massive shitstorm that resulted in lawsuits and having all his royalties stolen. He couldn't even legally use his stage name anymore. He was constantly being stalked and harassed by law enforcement, the press, and psycho fans who wanted to kill him because PiL was so different from the Pistols. His bandmates in PiL all hated each other and made it extremely difficult to keep that band afloat. So yeah... he wasn't exactly all smiles, rainbows, and unicorns around this time.
Back then a lot of interviewers would intentionally try to provoke a negative reaction out of him. It was almost par for the course if you were going to interview his 'Rotten-ness', and it was just pointless and stupid. Cheap entertainment. Every now and then someone would ask him relevant questions and get him to open up, and when that happened he was like a completely different person. All smiles and wonderment. He didn't want to talk about the past, but 98% of the time the past is all that interviewers would focus on. Start asking him about his current projects though, and it was a night and day difference.
Tired of people saying George Carlin was insightful: George was nothing but a very angry old man by time I saw him in person in 1993 in Champaign, Illinois...can't believe I paid money to watch him tear apart an entire audience with insults. But John Lyndon, WOW, he is INCREDIBLY STREET SMART & INSIGHTFUL whether he's speaking in any decade from the 1970s to the 2020s. God Bless John Lydon!
Amazing the perpetuation of this notion that the Sex Pistols were the instigators of a movement. They have said it time and again, there was no movement when they started. Their work was the result of an honest and truthful effort. Representative of who they were at that time. The fact that the punk movement in many respects was spawned from imitators and followers actually had little to do with them as an intention.
Forever swooning over this mans jaw line. 🤤🤤🤤 I was honestly prepared for Lady Gaga to pop out of nowhere, at some point in the video, dressed like a 40s film star ready to drag him away.
Exhibits sociopathic tendencies at 00:20. Interviewer is just asking reasonable questions about his history and the question is as about as important as picking ones fingernails. This is what happens: your importance is reduced to dirt under finger nail. This is how some people look at life/people. Apart from that, it's hilarious how theatrical his responses are...pure 'luvvy' deep down. Jones and Matlock, and good old Cookie, were the real driving force behind the pistols, just like Wobble and Levine were the driving force behind Pil. Take the wings off your aeroplane and you're flying nowhere -regardless how loud the engine roars.
@@2760ade I'd rather listen to cats fucking than (some) contemporary music, 80s music is better by comparison, but as a whole? The decade was dominated by cheap synth pop and god awful hair metal
The 80’s had a lot of great music. I’d much rather listen to Talking Heads, The Police, Joy Division, Prince, Van Halen with DLR, The Clash, The Smiths, The Cure, Bad Brains, Fishbone, Kraftwerk, Oingo Boingo, Lene Lovich, Jane’s Addiction, Thomas Dolby, Gary Numan, Siouxsie & The Banshees, George Clinton, Michael Jackson, Grace Jones, Bow Wow Wow, The English Beat and others than the blues plagiarists known as Led Zeppelin, Genesis, AC/DC or any of the arena rock dinosaurs of the 70’s.
In retrospective, John never left the punk scene. The Sex Pistols turned out to be the most important thing he has done in his life. But I guess at this point in his life he had to be angry and recalcitrant. And he's right. It was important.
Why would you say that the pistols is the most important thing he has done in his life - Are you measuring by success or influence? Maybe the most important thing he has ever done is to not care what others think and follow his own path - something that very few people understand or have the guts to do.
Lydon has always been a part of the art rock genre. The Sex Pistols was an art rock band, he grew tired of it and moved on, leaving the "punk for life" dullards behind. Public Image was always better than the Pistols.
@@RHINOSAUR I saw him in late 2019, just before the pandemic, and he was so fat I wasn't sure it was him, but I looked him up on the Internet and sure enough it was. If he's lost weight, good for him, 'cause when I saw him he was morbidly obese.
Exactly. It's ironic that so-called 'alternative' is actually mainstream and true alternative is just being an individual without putting the alternative 'uniform' on.
It's a shame you mocked your ancestors, while saying what they said. "meet the new boss, same as the old boss". From the original punk, you know, what was his name...? There is nothing new under the sun, although we all think we re-invented the world. In some language, someone already said everything.
Not self hate. He is really righteously pissed off. He experienced a lot of bad stuff in his youth including racism due to him being Irish. The Irish experienced terrible discrimination and racism
Hip Hop is a prime example of dominance in the industry. All above ground music is absolute garbage. The music of the enemy. I hope your speakers and all of your phones break.
John has literally said the same thing since the beginning of time, accept all attitudes and music. Punk is a joke; he is the only one who got it. Do not fit yourself into a box. From this interview in 1979 up until this bloke said the same exact thing when on The Masked Singer in the states in 2022.
@@acrossthebarricades8203 He could do quite a few Dickensian characters actually, like Uriah Heep for example (who was not, of course, so wery 'umble after all!). Steerpike too - different author, same look.
John was always ahead of his time, a great thinker, he saw that punk became uniform in music, fashion and behaviour.
I was thinkin that too, they were men before their time
bauz join ss trupers their fashion and behavior
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@Lorenzo Anthony instablaster ;)
now he’s a trump supporter😐
Outspoken and one of the most intelligent musicians ever. Say what you want about him but the man is pure genius.
May be genius but he is still selfish asf and thinks he is more genius than he is
@@ieeiiwieieieiw2012 not at all
Intelligent musicians????
THIS IS NOT A LOVE SONG
repeat x1000
He is as thick as sh.t
@@Paul-sl9zm Still toe tappingly brilliant, nonetheless!
I love how all of his interviews last less than 2 minutes but always powerful
"We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell."
Oscar Wilde.
@Bethlehem Eisenhour you are judgemental that's a sin 💙💚
@Bethlehem Eisenhour well said
Everytime youtube recommends another Lydonclip I expect to finally get bored of his answers, but it never happens.
Young, skinny and pissed. Just the way I like Rotten.
That Rotten is dead.
I don't think he was pissed. Looked pretty sober to me.
He's not pissed at all - very clear minded in fact.
Pissed as in ‘Pissed off’
@@SuperKings64 - 'Pissed' in English parlance means drunk.' Pissed-off' means annoyed or angry. Lydon himself would be clear on this matter!
He was in hospital for meningitis when he was very young for a long time. So glad he pulled through.
I know - and he has dined out on the story for the past 40 years and counting -every TV show, every talking performance, every book. He's doing another 'I had meningitis' tour in 2021 too - 75 quid per ticket for a compendium of meningitis, Malcolm, Pil Tour Butter money - with an encore of Trump is alright .
Also Y he can not blink 4 record lengths of time if im not getin confused....🤔
I love him
ooh me too
Who doesn't?
@@thewhoman3182 EXACTLY
Me too.
Verdade😆😆😆
1979 is probably one of the most important years in his career
Yeah, Metal Box is a unique album. Nothing like that have been made since.
He's so adorable and he's Young. I admire his attitude !!! Philadelphia USA
Why do you feel obliged to put where you are from in your comment? Mat From London
After seeing him fight with marky Ramone it's weird to see this and realize he was somewhat attractive lol
@@mattiemclean9882 lol New Jersey usa
He was one smart lad for his time way ahead of his time he was 👍👍👍
I mean that..He was a little naughty but a clever person
He looks exactly like my high school crush. Goosebumps.
All best thoughts to you J. Thanka for your never ending creative drive. I share your pain today. B strong as ever. Love your last album it s like the new moon rising. Believe it x❤
He was crazy but really self aware
How crazy? I ear a totaly healthy mind expressing hitself here.
@@guiguijol I meant he had an attitude some artists wouldn't in front of the media
@@lusio7182 that's because he really didn't give a fuck at all about what was the "standard" in media and what was considered acceptable. He said what he wanted and he meant it. People were just too afraid of that and still are to this day there isn't really any freedom is there just the delusion of it until someone crosses the line
@@lusio7182 because most artists are fake
Ya know?
Love love love Mr. Lydon. 😘
Ironically I said exactly the same thing in 2000 about the uk rave scene and then moved on to do new things in life at my own expense and I liked it .
And who are you?
yes I remember you saying that
@Mr. W You only listen to thr opinions of the rich and famous? Aw, that's cute.
"Time moves on, you can't live in the past, only a fool looks back to last year or the year before"....I wonder if he realised that years later he would be doing just that. I can't think of anybody in the music business that talks about the past as much as John Lydon. The Sex Pistols were only around for two and a half years and only ever recorded one album yet John Lydon even today goes over and over that period of his life. Yes it was an important part of musical history and that one album was a masterpiece but how many years can he talk about it? There is nothing left for him to say. He has said it all over and over again.
I think because we usually think, especially at the height of success or in youth, that new chapters will get written, that things as good can come or will be created, but if time proves you wrong, it's difficult to have this mindset and you get sucked in the glory of the past, especially if you have disdain for the present or great disappointments.
I think only because after decades of PiL most people still only know or care about the Sex Pistols.
@@lorenbrookes8547 Yep. In today's interviews, you see him being introduced as "John Lydon from the Sex Pistols", and even when he corrects the interviewer saying that he was in PIL and that he considers that project better than the pistols, they pay him no mind and keep asking questions about things that happened ages ago
Then they should stop asking questions about it. Certain he would oblige to speak on something else
people always ask him about the sex pistols tho
I remember the Pistols when they first came around
Loved them then and 💘
love even more now that I'm
a lot older
Legend.
The interviewer is Molly Meldrum, big figure in Australian music who hosted the show Countdown. I read in his autobiography that he attempted to interview John and Sid in '77 but one of them flicked a cigarette in the cameraman's eye and it resulted in a brawl and Meldrum wailed on John. Apparently the camera was rolling as this happened. I would have loved to see that footage lol
A top stand up gentleman. Love the bloke.
Love his attitude! ...Next question?
John says something amazing, then Contradicts himself and I am left feeling like i might be thick because he succeeded. He’s a genius for this reason
No interviewer can get it right with Mr. Rotten - ever
Oh I dunno. Every now and then an interview locks into place with him. It's rare, but it does happen from time to time. Conan O'Brien handled him well, and so did Tom Snyder in his 2nd interview with him (the first Snyder interview was an utter disaster).
Piers Morgan got it right in 3/2017 also
theres couple he got on with. he was on an MTV gameshow type thing and seemed like he was enjoying it
It seems that he was like that for a while and then sometime near or after he and his wife missed that fateful Lockerbie PanAM flight, he almost magically became more gregarious for some strange reason. Look at the various interviews around the mid to late eighties.
@@johndaarteest True. He started to progressively mellow out a little bit these past 10/15 years or so. Throughout all the '90s and up to the mid '00s he was pretty much still eating journalists. I think a lot of his mellowing has to do with ageing too. Quite a normal thing.
Jah Wobble next to him ....great bass player... Johnny looks cool here - pretty snazzy in his suit !
You can applied this logic to any trend or sub culture which becomes mainstream or popular it becomes to big becoming further from its overall roots
Sure, but most subcultures don't have the aims punk supposedly did
Brilliant my son.
Such an angry young lad. So jaded but articulate...he's had enough of idiots!!!😆😆😆
He went through a lot of crap in his youth. He experienced hardcore racism being Irish. He went through some really bad stuff and his anger is justified
....happy little chappie isn't he.
kcirdrab His mum and best friend just died, I don't think I'd be too happy about having a microphone shoved in my face either.
@@xx-jk9tj also, he was tired of answering the same Pistols questions over, and over.
You try living in england under thatcher and having every conservative and fascist try to kill u twat
nothing like the shiny happy sheeple
Well let's see... his mom (who he was extremely close to) had just died from stomach cancer. His best friend had just died from being od'd on smack by his own mother. His last band had imploded in a massive shitstorm that resulted in lawsuits and having all his royalties stolen. He couldn't even legally use his stage name anymore. He was constantly being stalked and harassed by law enforcement, the press, and psycho fans who wanted to kill him because PiL was so different from the Pistols. His bandmates in PiL all hated each other and made it extremely difficult to keep that band afloat. So yeah... he wasn't exactly all smiles, rainbows, and unicorns around this time.
His wonderful
Best PiL era. With Wobble.
Flowers Of Romance was also one of their finest moments, and that was post-Wobble.
@@Brewzerr Flowers Of Romance is mind-blowing stuff-
Jah Wobble is a kind hearted person😍
@@Brewzerr The exception. It's a good record. But Metal Box ... shame we couldn't have gotten at least one more disk from that lineup.
@@danielaschwarz1971 True, but you wouldn't want to get on his bad side. I've heard some stories.
It's not so much Lydon about being unhappy but the interviewer asking questions that are bound to be answered with disdain.
Back then a lot of interviewers would intentionally try to provoke a negative reaction out of him. It was almost par for the course if you were going to interview his 'Rotten-ness', and it was just pointless and stupid. Cheap entertainment. Every now and then someone would ask him relevant questions and get him to open up, and when that happened he was like a completely different person. All smiles and wonderment. He didn't want to talk about the past, but 98% of the time the past is all that interviewers would focus on. Start asking him about his current projects though, and it was a night and day difference.
@@Brewzerr Absolutely right!
The most Rock n Roll interview ever
the days when you could flick ash onto a carpet
The most underrated
A lovely person
a lovely duck kwakklwak
A truly honest person can be hard to deal with.
Johnny, the reluctant witness.
I THINK OF THE PAST LOADS
PAST PRESENT AND FUTURE, I'M SAD THAT I'M NOT GOOD AT REMEMBERING STUFF
First pil lp was great
What the name of the song on Back to the interview ? ( excuse my english, i'm french)
i think its by pil..excuse my english...im english
@@pearlharbour3300 ok the band is pil, but the name of the song ?
@@remicarnez5150
I'm also looking for this.
Found it. It's called "Careering".
Yeaaah, thanks you, this song is so cool,
Johnny so rral 🙏😳🇮🇪
Yet he be young, still he has Wisdom.
Norman Wisdom?
Johnny Rotten deep thinker👍🏻👍🏻
What's the name of this young man? He seems to be a quiet, reasonable, well educated philosopher.
John lydon
He did it his way
That was sid
True to this day
I absolutely totally agree with John
John lydon 🧡🧡🧡
Heresssss Johnny...
Tired of people saying George Carlin was insightful: George was nothing but a very angry old man by time I saw him in person in 1993 in Champaign, Illinois...can't believe I paid money to watch him tear apart an entire audience with insults. But John Lyndon, WOW, he is INCREDIBLY STREET SMART & INSIGHTFUL whether he's speaking in any decade from the 1970s to the 2020s. God Bless John Lydon!
Everyone gets old. Lydon is becoming an old man just as Carlin did.
Verdade
You can see the disdain he has for Molly Meldrum’s inane line of questioning. “This idiot is wasting my time and hurting my head” is the look he gets
And then he went and tried to become a reality TV star
Nobody's perfect
Amazing the perpetuation of this notion that the Sex Pistols were the instigators of a movement. They have said it time and again, there was no movement when they started. Their work was the result of an honest and truthful effort. Representative of who they were at that time. The fact that the punk movement in many respects was spawned from imitators and followers actually had little to do with them as an intention.
Cool. Still nirvana became big too after this.
Omg he acts so much like Johnny thunders with the attitude hair and cigarette
0:50 he referres to the 1980 as 80's
idk why thats weird, it shouldnt be, but it feels kinda weird
I apologize because I'm getting to know Lydon and everything about him these days, but someone could tell me which song is playing in the background?
Just found out, is Careering by Public Image Ltd
Love that song
How do you see music in the 80’s ???
The smiths ...
hey what p.i.l track is that?
Careering
that little flash of wobble at the start of this tells a tale. amphetamine sulphate brought you this clip...
Forever swooning over this mans jaw line. 🤤🤤🤤 I was honestly prepared for Lady Gaga to pop out of nowhere, at some point in the video, dressed like a 40s film star ready to drag him away.
why everybody talks about Lady Gaga in connection with John
Bako Lee becuse he stated he liked her work i guess
@@mr.cifuentes1779 He likes Kate Bush as well and disco music.
He just likes what he likes, and doesn't give a wet shit what anyone else thinks about it. That's how it should be.
Exhibits sociopathic tendencies at 00:20. Interviewer is just asking reasonable questions about his history and the question is as about as important as picking ones fingernails. This is what happens: your importance is reduced to dirt under finger nail. This is how some people look at life/people. Apart from that, it's hilarious how theatrical his responses are...pure 'luvvy' deep down. Jones and Matlock, and good old Cookie, were the real driving force behind the pistols, just like Wobble and Levine were the driving force behind Pil. Take the wings off your aeroplane and you're flying nowhere -regardless how loud the engine roars.
Excellent analysis Darren
@
The True story restored
he's a Cool Guy
“How do you see music in the 80s?”
“Hopefully getting better”
Oh, how wrong you were Johnny
Least he had hope
80's music wasn't all bad! Hell of a lot more diverse and better than the utter crap put out nowadays?
@@2760ade I'd rather listen to cats fucking than (some) contemporary music, 80s music is better by comparison, but as a whole? The decade was dominated by cheap synth pop and god awful hair metal
The Smith's were great.
The 80’s had a lot of great music. I’d much rather listen to Talking Heads, The Police, Joy Division, Prince, Van Halen with DLR, The Clash, The Smiths, The Cure, Bad Brains, Fishbone, Kraftwerk, Oingo Boingo, Lene Lovich, Jane’s Addiction, Thomas Dolby, Gary Numan, Siouxsie & The Banshees, George Clinton, Michael Jackson, Grace Jones, Bow Wow Wow, The English Beat and others than the blues plagiarists known as Led Zeppelin, Genesis, AC/DC or any of the arena rock dinosaurs of the 70’s.
John "I'm honest" Rotten.
Reporter bitch slapped by honesty.
Visionary, look at Music in 2022, you can tell They pretty Much sing about the same shit, similar fashion
Make sense why he likes lady gaga now.
He's like a grumpy child who needs a time out here.
In retrospective, John never left the punk scene. The Sex Pistols turned out to be the most important thing he has done in his life. But I guess at this point in his life he had to be angry and recalcitrant. And he's right. It was important.
Why would you say that the pistols is the most important thing he has done in his life - Are you measuring by success or influence?
Maybe the most important thing he has ever done is to not care what others think and follow his own path - something that very few people understand or have the guts to do.
Lydon has always been a part of the art rock genre. The Sex Pistols was an art rock band, he grew tired of it and moved on, leaving the "punk for life" dullards behind. Public Image was always better than the Pistols.
so handsome lookin then
Poor old Molly has no idea how to cope with Johnny
"Only a fool looks back"
Is he still getting royalties from the past?
Sid Vicious was da star! -marky ramone
A faaaaaarce
Jimmy? Quadrophenia?
Well, he was right about that.
It's his studied boredom that grates I guess.
THE Sex Pistols we’re dead Before Sid WAS!!!!!’😊😊
Hahahahaha, he gives nowt away😂
Only one second of Wobble at the beginning. C'mon for fuck sakes.
Recently I saw John Lyndon on a sidewalk in Venice CA pulling a wheeled cart with a bag of groceries. He's was extremely fat.
Not anymore. He lost most of that fat.
@@RHINOSAUR I saw him in late 2019, just before the pandemic, and he was so fat I wasn't sure it was him, but I looked him up on the Internet and sure enough it was. If he's lost weight, good for him, 'cause when I saw him he was morbidly obese.
a very slick 'persona' that is informed by his *actual beliefs*
Rebeldinho de paletó e gravata, kkkkkkkkk
When you see straight heads's kids with kitch Mohawk's you realise it became dull and absorbed the the dull
Exactly. It's ironic that so-called 'alternative' is actually mainstream and true alternative is just being an individual without putting the alternative 'uniform' on.
Yeah, he's not wrong. LOL
It's a shame you mocked your ancestors, while saying what they said. "meet the new boss, same as the old boss". From the original punk, you know, what was his name...? There is nothing new under the sun, although we all think we re-invented the world. In some language, someone already said everything.
JONNY rotten has slot of hate for himself.
Not self hate. He is really righteously pissed off. He experienced a lot of bad stuff in his youth including racism due to him being Irish. The Irish experienced terrible discrimination and racism
What's up with him here ? Dressed up in suit and speaking like he is not there. Was he high at the time?
Very well could have been. He was known to indulge in more than just the drink during this time period and beyond.
Subs please!!!
Cherrio! haha
Rotten!
Lol..only a fool looks back, nonsense
When he was interesting and insightful, unlike later when he became a caricature of himself ,and whiny old dinosaur.
Hip Hop is a prime example of dominance in the industry. All above ground music is absolute garbage. The music of the enemy. I hope your speakers and all of your phones break.
You clearly want someone to say it, so I will: you're stupid as fuck
John has literally said the same thing since the beginning of time, accept all attitudes and music. Punk is a joke; he is the only one who got it. Do not fit yourself into a box. From this interview in 1979 up until this bloke said the same exact thing when on The Masked Singer in the states in 2022.
Que marra 😂😂😂
Oliver Twist interviewed.
James Gretsch
Rather a disgruntled 'Artful Dodger' after a 'no pockets picked' afternoon.
@@acrossthebarricades8203 He could do quite a few Dickensian characters actually, like Uriah Heep for example (who was not, of course, so wery 'umble after all!). Steerpike too - different author, same look.
He's a nihilist abrasive sod. But damn on the money here.
Sid Vicious was gonna be the singer and then Malcolm didn't know what Vivienne meant and went with rotten