I met him in 1980, I was only 9 years old at the time and I spotted him in a park in London with a group of his friends, my mum approached him as I was too shy to and he was the complete opposite of what he portrays himself to be in the limelight, he shook my hand and said of his appreciation of someone as young as I was at the time recognising him.
I completely agree with him about rock & roll it’s no different than pop rap and dance and mostly famous music Now underground music whether it’s hip hop metal punk that’s where it’s at
Lol. That would actually be amusing for a few hours until even a freakin nun gets so irritated she wacks the blabbering wanker! But until then I’d love to see him Trump and Eminem in a shit spewing twitter bukake until Sister Gloria puts a cap in his whiny limey ass. (Much love to the rest of my brothers and sisters in the UK! This guy just...ughh! Lol)
Beneath this abrasive image lies a man who cared for his wife, right through her battle with dementia, until the very end. Respect is earned…..and, for what it’s worth…he has mine.
Not necessarily. Seems a bit narcissistic and self-important. If a person only cares about their own opinion of themselves, seems like a bit of a defense mechanism to avoid being hurt by what other people say. Because sometimes what other people think of us is actually valid, and sometimes the truth hurts. Doesn't mean we have to care what EVERYONE thinks. There is an intelligent balance to be struck between not being overly worried about whatever everyone thinks and not caring what anyone thinks.
To go through life, expressing exactly how you feel not giving a fuck about popular opinion, in an articulate, intelligent manner, is something we can all aspire to.
Yes, unfortunately John has never reached that point. He does give a fuck about popular opinion, which is why he has maintained the arrogant, edgy, angry public persona, even when he matured, sorted his life out, and mellowed out.
@@wcwrk rebelling simply for the sake of rebelling is juvenile, and yes you stop doing it at a certain point. i like John Lydon but he clearly has a problem accepting anybody as an authority figure and that kind of automatic repulsion will leave a person sad and alone because no one wants to be associated with an asshole.
Eu diria : não , não pode , pq see vc se ferir e precisar de ajuda médica isso tem um custo alto , e assim vc tb pode impedir alguém de ser atendido antes de vc numa emergencia . E se vc quer , por exemplo , se mutilar , ok , mas então depois não peça ajuda médica alguma ! E tb não faça seguro , pq não lhe será pago ! Pensamento egoísta de idiota ! Ninguém vive sozinho no mundo , a não ser os eremitas .
@@TheWelwyn21 what could Lydon "do" about Jimmy Saville? He publicly called out Saville for being a perv when NO ONE else would say anything even though the rumors were out there and true. Lydon had the balls to say it to the masses in 1978!
@@purplehaze2342 he didn't go to the police if your that confident of wrong doings you would I know I would and I take the media with me if I was high profile like himself at the time
He’s just regurgitating the same shit everyone that comes along and tries to act like they have a new angle on humanity. Mao, Hitler, Stalin and Jefferson all said the same shit. It’s just a cathartic exercise people do to justify their life. When their life is a result of one decision after another decision. Much easier to blame everybody else for our problems. The very best politicians, artists, and it’s especially punk rock singers are masters at getting a following by getting people to believe their problems are because of some existential threat. Your biggest enemy is looking back at you in the mirror
these days tho...to quote Glen Matlock “Johnny Rotten he’s on the other side (more right wing views) but I don’t know if he is. I think he just says what he says just to get in the paper. I doubt his sincerity about all that but by whether he voted for Trump or the Tories in England and if you don’t mean it I think that’s pretty poor.”
@@sally-annewatson2627 It doesn't matter how nicely you speak to him... he's looking for a chance to be Johnny Rotten. He's clearly brilliant, but, I doubt we'll ever fully know when he's yanking our chain or when he's speaking straight up. That said, it's sad he has the relationship he does with the other Pistols.
i love Johnny Rotten, he's so intriguing yet sooooo intimidating. An intellectual human being with an articulate and polite way of speaking but always keeping it punk. What a legend
He lives in L.A. for fuck sake. The wankers capital of the world. If that's your idea of 'keeping it punk' then punk is surely dead and buried. Over here he's not seen as particularly quick-witted or shocking cos there are plenty of working class people who can put people down with a succinct one-liner just as well as he can.
WaH? Look again, he is a confused, disagreeable rude little kid in the early stuff and then progressed into turning up to interviews with his massive ego and the sum total of being disagreeable and unnecessarily rude - please can someone who is a psychologist comment on this guy who's track record merely (- surely?) seems like ODD...? It must be pretty awful for any human to live around him unless it's purely an act that he keeps recycling. Psychologists comments please?
@@sally-annewatson2627 It's important to remember that our perceptions of public figures like Johnny Rotten (John Lydon) are often shaped by the media's portrayal and limited glimpses into their lives. While John Lydon, may have displayed disagreeable and rude behavior in his early career and to a lesser degree recently, it's crucial to approach such judgments with caution. People can change and evolve over time, and the context in which we see them may not fully capture their true personality or struggles. It's also worth noting that public personas and stage personas can be quite different from a person's true self. Regarding whether John Lydon's behavior could be indicative of Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD), it would not be appropriate for me to make a clinical assessment without a proper evaluation. In summary, while John Lydon may have had a contentious public persona, it's important to approach our judgments with an understanding of the complexities of human behavior and the potential for growth and change over time.
@@sally-annewatson2627 You've already shown the mileage to indicate you have a good understanding of what Lydon is about, at least in his publicly expressed personas over the years. You need zero psychology credentials to vet what your gut and eyes clearly illume when watching his output. ;) Cheers.
@@sally-annewatson2627I'm not a psychiatrist or anything, but I've seen him giving decent answer too, they ask questions about something he don't care about so it's his way to voicing it. It's really that simple. Psychologist opinions on the matter are utterly worthless as they don't even know what à woman is anymore. Kurt Cobain was also a bit like this but not that quick witted.
Some teachers try to teach kids without giving the reasons why it can be useful. I'm sure John just asked them to justify it all for him to be interested in learning, as WE ALL SHOULD.
He SAYS he called him out. He didn't do a very good job of it since Sir Jimmy carried on noncing til his natural death, as a beloved national character and knighted OBE. I hope Johnny calls me out as some sort of evil character, I might win the lottery.
@Night Rider I remember Bill Wyman dating Mandy Smith, who was 13 while he was 44, being in all the papers. This was in the mid-1980s. People generally seemed to feel sick about it. I think there were a lot of people wondering why he wasn't in jail. But for some reason he wasn't punished. This is a much later example than in the 1960s and 70s, but I suppose back then the age gap wasn't as far, since the offenders were younger, and it was more seen as being distasteful but consensual, a mortal meeting their idol, rather than an adult harming a child by psychologically manipulating them. It was portrayed as "naughty", "rock and roll excess", as if we all would secretly be raping 14 year olds if we could get away with it. But then, as now, it was only a small minority who actually found kids attractive. It's the bloody media, isn't it? A bunch of extremely questionable, professional liars and bullshitters, who have their agenda in mind first, and then set out to arrange the facts and "facts" around the story they want to write. Why does anybody read the papers? Why do "opinion" columns exist? Can't we just ask our friends and acquaintances about their opinions? Why always some agenda-pushing sinister old arsepiece telling us what to think, creating the narrative line for us to follow to their conclusion like a fish being caught? What's wrong with the media, but more importantly what's wrong with people that we let them exist?
Gnostic - Michael Jackson wasn't a paedo but some people will believe whatever they are told by moneygrabbing families after a piece of Jacksons estate
Greenaum - he called him out In the famous interview with Janet street porter. He didn't just 'say' he did it, the recording is on UA-cam from 1978. He was then banned from the BBC. He wasn't going to single handedly defeat savile who was being supported by the BBC and the royal family!!!
facts. "It's all a farce", and yet if "no one tells me what to do" then he wasn't obligated to the farce - he was invited, and accepted invitations to hundreds of these things just to pretend like "it's all a farce". Hypocrisy at it's finest, which means it's all just to broadcast his feigned superiority - so, narcissism at it's finest, too.
Yeah. Once. On a radio show segment that never aired. Then he says, "I did my bit". Bullshit. Just like everyone else that knew about what Jimmy was up to, Johnny did fuck all.
Rotten skirted around the issue, for a man so against the establishment he and many many others kept quiet for their own careers including our very own Esther Ranzon, head of fucking childlike for Christ sake. Wankers every single one off them let Saville continue abusing children for their own benefit.
@@alimantado373 'Should I Stay or should I go' by The Clash used to advertise an American global jeans brand)(levis) and licensed by Mick Jones and Co to be used but of course it's always John with the 'butter ad'. The Clash the same band who railed against capitalism but sold the rights to one Their songs to one of the most capitalistic companies around. At least John the balls to appear in his own ad unlike others
Zoot Rollo "He should've shut his yap & got a job like the rest of us." Really, so because you're happy slogging it out in mediocrity, it should be good enough for everyone else too? What a boring friggin life that would be. Butter ad or not, Johnny leaves a legacy of autonomy few people ever will on this earth, & by the looks of it can still trigger the squares who just shut their yaps & work like slaves for the man.
The man is class...a total non conformist..without a care for what anyone else thinks..he wasnt just a sex pistol..he was also the founder of PIL..a great band in their own right..i find him a very knowledgable and articulate man.good on you sir
Hugo foreal. Johnny rotton is miserable prick who thinks being a 12 year old girl about every damn thing is cool even when ur a 60 year old man who can pay someone to write a book for you. No class no Brains not even enough musical ability to make true market worthy rock, yet he damn sure thinks he’s qualified to criticize it! Fuckin huge embarrassment to the entire English music industry which has had so many amazingly talented musicians for the little island and this anti-existence prick thinks he has a point that rock is shit because it’s played at airports? Doesn’t that just mean airports play better music than Muzak or whatever? The “punk” has absolutely no vision, no ideas, and even goddamn southpark’s Eric cartman outclassed the Sex Pistols when he saw •passion of the Christ” and dressed up like Hitler to lead a rally. Yup, this guy is like a tumor that can talk. Why did the world give it a microphone instead of chemotherapy?
@@polarnj rock and roll caught the plague, and you're delusional and holding onto a dead past that has been beaten post mortem to make sure every ounce of life got squeezed out of it. You're absolutely like johhny rotten, except about half the brains and half the balls, and I'm being generous.
TheChikleMasta which past am I holding on to? The most generous analysis I can give ur beloved whiny pussy and his 15 mins of fame is to acknowledge they were kind of making a similar point to Marcel Duchamp (although it was about fine art not music) when he signed a urinal and demanded someone tell him why it wasn’t art...but once the Dada art movement made its point, regardless of the difference in the fact that those making the point were extremely talented and visionary before being the original philosophical punks, it wasn’t of any value or intellectual/aesthetic purpose to create anti-art (ahem, Sex Pistols and Johnny the man with eternal sand in his vagina). Regarding bullocks and brains? He’s one of few pop celebrities whom I can say was an absolute mistake and his corny ass persona is the only reason anyone talks to him. If Sid didn’t have his dramatic tragedy with Nancy, I’m afraid to let the “fans” of this lovely art (lmfao) wouldn’t even know the noise made by this collection of philosophically bankrupt AND talentless morons. You want true punk music? As a genre it’s automatically faux ideology and bullshit by using the very term. Aphex twin, Björk, Laibach, MGMT, The Pixies, Sousie Soiux and the Banshees, fuck! even New Order! These randomly picked few artists off the top of my head were all sonically far more rebellious with the drive to push the envelope in music as well as in their visual and lyrical content and changed the entire concept of live performances in ways the Sex Pistols can only sneer at and half ass play the worst version of rock music ever to manifest itself like a child who survives hundreds of attempts to cause a miscarriage by its mother. Or maybe more like the fecal excretion pushed out during some live births. They are shit. They have nothing new to say. They are obnoxious. They are NOT musicians and I’ve never heard a critique worth a shit and when I was in fuckin high school I had a more highly developed philosophy regarding my contempt for the mainstream music industry. I’d love to hear what Mr. Rotten DOESNT think sucks? Those who can create do, those who can’t, critique, which is fine. But those who can’t create and are bitter twats over it, pretend they have an agenda and just shit on the work of actual artists. And no I couldn’t take him in a fight because I’m too dedicated to the ideal of mercy towards my enemies. I’ve learned that to further harm a man who is clearly unable to fight any longer only makes me feel sick by his lack of ferocity and will and so mercy and pity are all I could offer such a petty little shit like JR. I have control of my emotions which is something a uselss blowhard cartoon character such as he could never grasp. Hence, he has had PMS for so long i with the pussy would just bleed it out already or maybe get some therapy. And my musical background is in the 90’s early 00’s Nj/Ny hardcore scene which has its roots in punk of the less Mohawk and clown suit variety. Actual political Violence, real life politics and blue color living is what fueled our scene. Not dressing up like skinny drag queens with stupid haircuts like the trash that hangs around doing jack shit whining cuz daddy didn’t play catch with me. And sid, learn to handle ur drugs. Never mind the bullocks is right! the Sex Pistols are modern eurotrash Castrate.
@@polarnj not saying I agree with some or even anything you have said/written but like the way you put your argument across. Very detailed, factual and knowledgeable... Are you a journalist of some sort?
@@TheGabrielberki When it's nothing but rap "artists" and people who look like they jumped out of a fashion magazine yes. But when it's comedians like Joey Diaz, Tom Segura and Bert Kreischer they bring more than just an over reaction to a sauce they bring with them interesting stories.
Interviewer: "Are You Honest?" Johnny: "Yes, I Am. Very." Interviewer: "I Think You're Trying To Shock People" Johnny: "I Don't Give A S**t What You Think. I Know What I Think And That's All That Counts To Me. I Don't Try To Impress Anybody But Myself. " Most Punk Thing Ever 👉
@@thegrindcoreenthusiast7293 - I see that now, you only do it to get attention but when you're called out on it, you stop doing it. Not very consistent.
I remember once when Johnny was talking to Danny Devito on some talk show where they were both guests Johnny said to Danny, "I heard you like me." and Danny replied, "I said I liked the Sex Pistols, not you." Thats the ONLY time Ive EVER heard anyone outJohnny Johnny. I still love Johnny though!!!!
I respect Johnny I’ve seen him when he was young and also when he was older, and he is so well spoken He keeps his voice even and doesn’t yell, because he knows actions speak louder than words He was a natural at speaking, a true musician and genuine person
I love how in inteviews where he's older he still sounds the same. Sure, darker voice as he got older. But still the same nonchalant way of speaking. I love it!
A narcissistic troll Lisa. I mean he thought his little band could end rock n roll, his contrived little band. That's some uber narcissism. PS - I don't mind some of the Pistols stuff, Roadrunner for instance. PIL are better though.
He’s not genuine. Read other comments. He’s just like everybody else in real life, but puts on this old facade of a rebel whenever on tv because he thinks people like him
@@garmen- I think he once said he was literally impersonating Laurence Olivier in Richard III. Which if it's true he's actually doing a pretty bang up job.
You're supposed to take care of your wife, till death do us part was the line, remember? You don't get brownie points for doing what your supposed to do. It's like saying I look after my kids, yes, you're 'supposed' to look after your kids.
@Carter Atwell Best comment. He knows that 99% of the interviewers are simply sober and less overtly hostile Bill Grundys that want him to say "shit" but get to keep their jobs.
Out-twatted far more accurate. He's a twat simply for the sake of being a twat. Being outright rude and intentionally hurtful to people is in no way classy.
I remember when Johnny Rotten first appeared on the scene. I never expected that he would one day become an institution. He's ploughed his own furrow and remains his own man. I admire him immensely.
He is an extremely edgy boi let's be honest, looks cringey as fuck when an old man is whining at kids about anarchy and being unique when his music is literally the most straight music with no inspiration in it anymore
Calamitous Old Johnny is not infallible, but you're absolutely insane to call his stuff the "most straight music", have you even heard Public Image Ltd.? Metal Box? Some of that stuff is still inspiring and ahead of its time
Well there is a reason for Axl Rose and it is his psychosis, he has been clinically diagnosed with bipolar disorder. There are a lot a stories with him before taking his pills and when he didnt, Lars Ulrish i think in one interview was talking for this. Now for Johny - he is just an ordinary asshole with fake posing to create a image of bad boy. he is putting on an act badly
@@blackrock1009 Although Axl Rose has been kind of an ass at times at least there was an explanation for it and with the facts in place, Axl Rose is actually not as bad as everyone makes him out to be as he certainly has redeemable qualities and in fairness to the guy it looks like hes made a concious effort to change which is great as I am delighted for the guy. Johnny Rotten on the other hand is just borderline rude with the only excuse is that he was posing with this punk rock, don't give a crap kind of attitude but contrary to what I said I know some people who have actually personally met Johnny Rotten and they said he was a pretty alright guy so maybe Rotten really is putting on a bad boy act.
@@extropy1 I think many people generally perceive Lydon to be rude and abrasive but I think thats mainly due to the media perputuating that image in public interviews which generally are formalized and I think Lydon is just one of those people who calls peoples bs out with no regard for his image or others which i'll say is refreshing cause he has a level of honesty that many people in show business don't have. Contrary to what I said, I think Lydon puts on a bad boy act cause it fits with the image he has built for himself being one of the biggest named in the punk rock scene. Also one of my good mates met him a few years ago and said that Lydon is actually a pretty cool guy whos good to his fans and just one of those people you can sit down and have a beer with when chatting to him which just goes to show that the media really perpetuates a lot of false information about almost anything under the sun.
Lyndon has received a lot of praise (and rightly so) in this commentary section; I am mostly impressed by his long, loving marriage to Nora, who now suffers from Alzheimer’s. The first time I heard “Hawaii”, I immediately recognized who was singing and what it was about; it moved me to tears. It’s one of the best love songs I’ve ever heard. Of all the celebrities I could possibly meet, he’s the one I’d most like to chat with. I wish him all the best.
This guy is a true punk. Not only he disgraces the hipocrisy of the society but also stood against the hipocrisy of entertainment industry including rock and roll, which probably inspired the whole punk rock.
Prog Rock Anarchy Maybe to make a living and a wage but apart from that fuck no. If anything the ramones and the clash were more "in it for the money" than the pistols because the ramones had official merchandise and the pistols didn't even have that.
I saw him with PIL in the Glasgow Barrowlands many years ago and some people were doing that punk rock spitting at the band thing. He John stopped the song mid way through and said, “Please don’t spit on me, it’s boring and outdated. If you want to spit on anyone, go spit on your local MP, alright?”. Legend.
I also saw him in NYC early or mid 80s. He was throwing tampons at the audiance. I think he raided the bathroom vending machines. He also looked at me for a second during the performance and I felt awe and scared at the same time.
He's not a "difficult" man or intentionally controversial; he tells the truth, as we all should. For a kid that grew up destitute in the slums of London, naturally he would learn early the true nature of humans. Johnny on the spot!
This guy is a legend… he always knew these people on tv are all just manipulative, fake characters who will only allow you to follow there ways. He stood up against that, that’s why they hated him. It wasn’t fair, he didn’t deserve to go through life being hated on for truth and self love.
nah man he really did deserve it. every clip is him pretending to not want to be there and ruining everyone's day - and yet he insisted on showing up to hundreds of hours of these things just to be seen being insufferable. that's not punk. that's narcissism. and when you build an identity on that, broadcasting it to the world at every possible opportunity, you deservedly end up completely alone.
@@willluck7662 nah dude he did it to keep his career you sped, if he didn’t show up he’d get no publicity and his managers clearly needed his publicity to sell his records. You may be the stupidest person to even comment in a UA-cam history section… to date.
I was never into punk but I like johnny rotten. He cannot be talked down by any interviewer. He's a pretty solid chap. He was calling out Jimmy saville years ago. Top guy.
He's rightfully taken this position of defiance against the media. He's always understood that they aren't interested in the truth or genuine interaction let alone art. His disdain is applied appropriately.
At 4:30, "Punk became like, fascist..." I've always considered this quite telling. Even John saw that punk was becoming cliquish and that a certain 'uniform' was expected in order to join the club. Brilliant that he wanted no part of that. I always find it ironic when people try to label bands as punk or not punk.
True words, everything that starts as claims to individuality and against the herd, tends to become a herd in itself. Like punk or any other alternative style that says "be yourself", eventually this particular be yourself becomes a fixed image. What I say is screw herds, if you like punk rock but want to wear a suit and tie do it, you don't have to belong, being useful is not necessarily a compliment.
@@viictor1309 Well, he did buy into it at one point. But poeple often get like that AFTER the fashion. Once they are outside the clique they deride cliques. He certainly wanted to be a Ramones groupie and be part of it at the outset. But once corporations get involved...
He's a prima donna of the highest degree. He would say " I don't care" but he needs you to care whether he cares or not, to say " I don't care" narcissist manipulation at it's worst/best. Those interviewers are only doing thier job. You can be different without being an arsehole. So he is a loud arsehole but he knows it. Interesting he keeps saying he doesn't care. Then gets pissed off. If you don't care about something it shouldn't piss you off. He won't care about our petty comments and really, why should he? Way to important to care about that, or should I say self important. Nobody really care's that he doesn't care. He must only get asked that every ten years now. I still laugh at it just because it is shocking. Camera or no camera, I wouldn't let someone speak to me that way. Glasgow Kiss.
@@Y0ungContrarian should remove and replace that with devoured. He ate for whatever meal he was due. I like him still though I do think he's a prick but so does he. I was thinking the other day, what do you do if you are really good at something nasty. I can be really good at being sarcastic and cynical but I try not to be because I am fundamentally a nice person.
Jonny has always seemed to me, an hugely articulate and interesting individual. Nothing in this video has changed that view; he's an intelligent person, who dedicated his life in a particular direction that he loves. Isn't that what all of us should aspire to, whether "intelligent" or otherwise? Do what thou wilt... as long as you're staying true to yourself and not hurting anybody.
It's the uh... it's the not hurting anybody part. He insists on doing tv interviews, just to come on and be seen ruining everyone's day. I don't think ending up alone is very aspirational.
@@willluck7662 I would *strongly* suggest learning the powerful art of "unplugging" to rise above the bullsh1t if just watching the telly or web crap has the power to "ruin" your day. That's all on you and your choice of self-sabotage if you give away your mental autonomy to a stranger saying something that easily. Unplug! :) Cheers.
To be fair, he did outclass Kennedy. Even in her introduction, she came after him by nonchalantly calling his life "sordid", and he shut her smug ass down immediately. Of anybody in those clips, Kennedy had it coming the most.
Kennedy was always a nitwit. How did she ever get a job interviewing rock/ pop stars? I recall she once asked David Bowie if he followed The Grateful Dead. He looked at her like, wha the fuck is wrong with you for asking such a stupid question.
@@NSHM122 She really didn't like what she was doing. She wanted to get into broadcast media and she got her foot in the door with MTV. She was aiming for someplace very far to the right of that genre, but used it as a jumping off point. She never gave a shit about the subject or people she was interviewing and you can tell. Once she found her way into the outlets of her preference, she didn't do much better as it seems she's just naturally snitty and vapid.
@@dmitrijsmironovs7513 Yup. He's an idiot. He tries to shut people down before they have a chance to respond by saying things like "I don't care what you think" or "I'll just walk off" because he doesn't want to enter into any kind of discussion as he hasn't rehearsed enough 'edgy' lines. What's really cringe is that he's still like it as a grown man. The bottom line is that he has made a living as a musician without one iota of musical ability - yet he has the audacity to talk about how rock music has become all about image...
Jeff Peate antiestablishment? Swearing and the I don’t give a f£&ck attitude? More like perfect establishment propaganda. The only reason for punk to exist, was to demonise actual antiestablishment sentiment growing at the time. He was the perfect poster boy for the slaves not to push for true anarchy. Antiestablishment???? Irony!!!!
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I couldn’t stand the bloke when I was young, but now that I’m old and have learned to despise media puppets, I’ve gained a lot of respect for him. It doesn’t mean I’d feel confident to ask him a question though, not even if he’d like a cup of tea.
If you did ask him "would you like a cup of tea" he'd probably answer, "What is a cup of tea? You might be offering me a MUG of tea. Or a cup of coffee. Or a MUG of coffee. You have to be more precise about those proposals which you are currently tendering. I'm going now because you said there was going to be a big blancmange and there isn't any!"
Because he gets off on being an asshole, anything beyond that is just his fans making excuses for him. He absolutely lives for interviews because he gets to play "Punk Rocker VS The Establishment" and act like he's being harassed by voluntarily being there. He's the musician equivalent to those annoying law students that actively seek out traffic stops and then film themselves intentionally escalating the situation when the cop asks them for their license. His fans just make stupid excuses for him like "He wants to be asked meaningful questions" as though the guy is some Harvard graduate that's acting out because he's bored.
maybe the sound doesn't cover it maybe there's a little more to it. looking at his contributions to call it 'popculture' and his passion earns him more than clichés when judging him. he is irritating because he breaks the pattern of tv land - 'great' or 'i'd like to thank god and my producer'. i wonder what brings people here in the first place - seems theres some connection in possibly listening to 'punk' and getting upset when somebody doesnt perform like they are supposed to as you expect them to and that makes people angry. nothing corny here- depressing is more suitable
It's like you can see he's getting genuinely pissed off with these interviewers wasting his time. Yet with some of them he almost comes across as feeling sorry for them that they're wasting their own time too, and they don't even realise it.
haha except he was invited to hundreds of these things, and if "no one tells me what to do" then he accepted all of those invitations willingly - just to show up and broadcast to everyone how good he was at pretending not to care. narcissism and hypocrisy become blaringly obvious at that fact.
@@willluck7662 He was invited to like a gentleman he rocks up time and time again but when he's asked utterly ridiculous questions and or intentionally passively aggressively attacked by these piss weak cowardly journalists he calls them out. Can't say I see a single issue with that whatsoever. You certainly come across like the chip on the shoulder type perceiving such a simple concept in that way.
It seems asking him anything is suicidal......why bother agreeing to an interview if a) you think the questions are beneath you or b) the questions are going be inane?
@@fidget2020 most of those questions WERE inane. Or the interviewers were trying to challenge him to make a name for themselves (like the moron who was goading him to hear what Malcolm McClaren had to say... and then says "I'm going to tell you anyway" when Johnny says he doesn't want to know). Watch interviews with Johnny by decent interviewers. It's a different story. I've done lots of celebrity interviews over the years and I approach them all with respect. I also make sure I've done my RESEARCH before the fact (what was up with that last idiot who didn't seem to have a clue what he was even asking). I would have no fear interviewing Johnny Rotten and believe he would be an excellent guest.
@Kozmic Blooze I think you're right and I'm wrong. According to the internet definition, it turns out class just means "having stylish excellence". I think it's fair to say his negative attitude is a style. Well done sir.
"Class": Being a bourgeois prick who gets offended by how other live their lives, speak up.. Personally, I think those PC "journalists" cared more about what his opinions were than he cared about theirs..
Some real honesty there until it gets to the Mojo awards - that interviewer had him banged to rights about contradicting himself and his response was simply to be as belittling and patronising as possible. Not cool or clever at all.
I'd say it was dumb from the beginning, I'm struggling to understand what his deal was with the rock n roll rant. First of all, famous rock musician says that rock is shit? "I thought the Sex Pistols would be the end of rock n roll" so somehow you thought you could end rock music by contributing to it? makes perfect sense. And I know there's probably context missing here, but I fail to see how the things he's saying would make sense in any context. You cant hate rock music from a conceptual standpoint, even at the time of that interview the genre had already become all-encompassing to the point that there is rock music for any type of person.
That comment probably would have made Rotten laugh with Tom instead of at him (I like Tom). Maybe Rotten would also have thrown a "Depends on how much they're offering" follow-up to Tom.
I can't figure out a way to start a conversation with this guy: Me: Hello, I am Jacob. How are you? Johnny: Oi doun fockin' care..nun of yo fockin' biznis. Me: Outclassed
I respect him for saying how other people choose to exist does not concern him, but it would concern me if their behaviour infringed on how I, or others choose to live.
Saying that he is disappointed about his lack of success is an awfully ignorant statement. He could of continued doing Sex Pistols at any point in his life and made big money, but he chose to completely mix it up and push musical envelopes. Don't know where you are getting your information
Both his parents were from Ireland , his wit, wisdom , and sarcasm is very Irish, but the real John Lydon got left behind over 40 yrs ago around the time that the Sex Pistols started to get press coverage.
No because he’s not calling people and women shitty, derogatory names. He’s being himself but not being cruel and bigoted to others. There’s a difference between being outspoken and independent and being an asshole with no filter.
@@edl6398 it's called a reality check, we need more brutal honesty, such as telling parents that "no your 5 year old doesn't identify as a fucking non binary carrot" and telling men "throwing on a dress and calling yourself a women doesn't make you a woman"
@@kevinmorrice It’s not a reality check. It’s a reaction from bullies and small little men who think draconian laws are the way to suppress people who make them uncomfortable. Every GOPer seems to be a Christian bigot who practices nothing akin to tolerance but judges everyone as harshly as possible. This isn’t about your kids. This is about your insecurity and a changing world that makes you feel less important than you were when only guys like you were in charge. You are a dinosaur.
@@kevinmorrice I'm sure Jonny would be more in favour of people wearing what they want and being who they want, rather than taking your position of telling people how they should live.
He has been punched by a music host once. The interviewer was Molly Meldrum. Apparently as the story goes, Molly introduced himself to Rotten, he flicks a lit cigarette at the cameraman, hitting him in his eye, and so Molly king hit him...
Some of these were definitely not examples of him "outclassing" anyone. Particularly the one where the interviewer at the award ceremony calls him out for being a hypocrite. All he could do was get petulant and play the "I'm famous and you're not" card. That's not winning the argument. That's pretty fucking weak tbh. He looked like a fucking tool in that clip.
@offworldresident Except that's a sociological question, and John Lydon never made any claim to being a sociologist. Why should he pretend to have an expert opinion on the inner workings of the younger generation? As for the awards ceremony, his response was fair enough. If the interviewer thought it likely that his opinion of awards ceremonies had changed, she clearly didn't know who she was talking to.
Did you notice that those people were insufferable? Yeah, Johnny is not always on his A-game, especially as he gets older, but there's nothing wrong with showing disdain for those idiots. Are you, perhaps, from California?
I believe the main thrust of what he said is he's in a position to do whatever he wants to do. The implication is if he wants to go to an awards show he goes. It seems to me his consistently expressed philosophy is that he does what he wants to, and he doesn't care what people think. This always gives him a pretty convenient out because no matter what he does, the only way to hold him to charges of hypocrisy is to argue he's not actually doing what he wants to do, but that would require knowing what's going on inside his head better than he does. Basically she's walking up to him and telling him he doesn't really want to be there, and how the f would she know? Or she's just uninformed about what he's actually been saying all along. If your version of punk or counter culture requires so much purity that a person must never be doing something society wants them to, that is actually an even more rigid rule than the freedom within mainstream culture, i.e. always having to break the rules is itself a rule that constrains you from just doing what you want to. That's the joke with the goths on Southpark right?: All the "normal" kids get to wear all different colors, but to be a goth you *have* to wear black - the social norms of the supposed counter culture movement are actually more rigid than those of the culture itself. Everyone can end up trying to be different in exactly the same way, which is just another flavor of conformity. The question of whether or not to attend an award shows for John doesn't seem to me to be a question of "is it punk rock to go?" or "is it punk rock not to go?", but rather "if I want to go I go, and damn any rules that try to tell me what to do and any reporters who come along trying to enforce them" and I think that's pretty great.
@@dner75-xh9le Doesn't Lydon live in LA? You should read a little more and not be such a vacuous twat. I'm just kidding, reading probably wouldn't help that.
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I met him in 1980, I was only 9 years old at the time and I spotted him in a park in London with a group of his friends, my mum approached him as I was too shy to and he was the complete opposite of what he portrays himself to be in the limelight, he shook my hand and said of his appreciation of someone as young as I was at the time recognising him.
lucky bastard
Thanks love this story puts my faith back in humanity x
@@valerierodger7700 its a play on public image Ltd
Legend.
That’s because he has always been a decent human being. Lucky you to have had that moment with him. Cherish it:
The man really quicksaves before every social encounter and picks all the most extreme dialogue options.
that sums up his entire career
I completely agree with him about rock & roll it’s no different than pop rap and dance and mostly famous music
Now underground music whether it’s hip hop metal punk that’s where it’s at
Lmfao
@@Satanism666-n6n Frank Zappa would agree to that, with the difference that he wasn't a hypocrite stuck in his early-to-mid teenages like JR
@@TEBE2022 He told the truth about the paedophile Savile ,I'll give him that. 1978 and of course BBC banned him for that for a while :)
Imagine Rotten with a twitter account in his youth lol
He'd be as good as the President
Cancer
@@edenramirez8407 I don't understand, what's the context?
He's probably say "why the fuck would I want to be on twitter?" and be one of those people without twitter.
Lol. That would actually be amusing for a few hours until even a freakin nun gets so irritated she wacks the blabbering wanker! But until then I’d love to see him Trump and Eminem in a shit spewing twitter bukake until Sister Gloria puts a cap in his whiny limey ass. (Much love to the rest of my brothers and sisters in the UK! This guy just...ughh! Lol)
Beneath this abrasive image lies a man who cared for his wife, right through her battle with dementia, until the very end. Respect is earned…..and, for what it’s worth…he has mine.
I'm with you!
Me too. Top bloke and decent human being.
Anche il mio
Realmente, ele é um herói por ter cuidado da esposa doente por tantos anos até o fim. Um verdadeiro Punk
yes and mine and i think a good many more people respect this man ,the more i know of him the more i like the guy ..
“I don’t try and impress anybody but myself.” Now those r some words to live by.
Not necessarily. Seems a bit narcissistic and self-important. If a person only cares about their own opinion of themselves, seems like a bit of a defense mechanism to avoid being hurt by what other people say. Because sometimes what other people think of us is actually valid, and sometimes the truth hurts. Doesn't mean we have to care what EVERYONE thinks. There is an intelligent balance to be struck between not being overly worried about whatever everyone thinks and not caring what anyone thinks.
Eh, u make a good point Marcus, but I don’t entirely agree with u on that, however I will say I do partially agree with u on that.
@@marcuscross8051 sure but he was talking about impressing not *opinions* in general and you dont need to impress anyone
@@Entity-dn1mc if we can all agree on one thing it's that Sid biscuits and the six pistols were great.
Yeah Fresh 13, except it’s Sid Vicious and the Sex Pistols. 😆
To go through life, expressing exactly how you feel not giving a fuck about popular opinion, in an articulate, intelligent manner, is something we can all aspire to.
Yes, unfortunately John has never reached that point.
He does give a fuck about popular opinion, which is why he has maintained the arrogant, edgy, angry public persona, even when he matured, sorted his life out, and mellowed out.
He should've tried at least once.
@@valerierodger7700 Do you think that people when they get to a mature age becomes 'normal'? My god you are a fuckhead yourself.
@@wcwrk where did they ever say ‘normal’? You’re getting pretty riled up about what some random said on the internet about somebody else
@@wcwrk rebelling simply for the sake of rebelling is juvenile, and yes you stop doing it at a certain point. i like John Lydon but he clearly has a problem accepting anybody as an authority figure and that kind of automatic repulsion will leave a person sad and alone because no one wants to be associated with an asshole.
"Am I not allowed to do what I want with my own body?" Man, such prophetic words.
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Eu diria : não , não pode , pq see vc se ferir e precisar de ajuda médica isso tem um custo alto , e assim vc tb pode impedir alguém de ser atendido antes de vc numa emergencia . E se vc quer , por exemplo , se mutilar , ok , mas então depois não peça ajuda médica alguma ! E tb não faça seguro , pq não lhe será pago ! Pensamento egoísta de idiota ! Ninguém vive sozinho no mundo , a não ser os eremitas .
So he's a supporter of transgenderism?
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He called out Saville and nobody done a thing. He's a top man
He didn't do anything about him though
@@TheWelwyn21 what could Lydon "do" about Jimmy Saville? He publicly called out Saville for being a perv when NO ONE else would say anything even though the rumors were out there and true. Lydon had the balls to say it to the masses in 1978!
@@TheWelwyn21 well informing people of his ways is doing something, it's the police who done nothing 🙄 did you even read what I said ?
Yeah, they missed that episode for some reason
@@purplehaze2342 he didn't go to the police if your that confident of wrong doings you would I know I would and I take the media with me if I was high profile like himself at the time
Everytime he speaks it’s like he’s auditioning for a role
just like a green day vocalist
He's so depressing..
@Dangerz Own lol I guess being an arrogant ass is your idea of intelligence. This dude is just whiny. You probably are too.
Ryan Craig knobhead he’s a character not many them around on X factor . Good music too .
@@garymay799 the hell did you just try to say? 😂
you may think he is rude, but he is actually getting his point across every time
sometimes thats the only way to get ya point across tho
As a bully does.
@@Grgazola Please suck it up and get some thick skin. And this is coming from a 31-Year-Old Millennial.
@@Grgazola i suppose if someone looks at you the wrong way they're a bully too...
@@Grgazola grow a pair
He’s speaking exactly how a lot of us feel. Respect that.
🤝
😂90% of us do. Just listen to us regular peeps.
He’s just regurgitating the same shit everyone that comes along and tries to act like they have a new angle on humanity. Mao, Hitler, Stalin and Jefferson all said the same shit.
It’s just a cathartic exercise people do to justify their life. When their life is a result of one decision after another decision. Much easier to blame everybody else for our problems.
The very best politicians, artists, and it’s especially punk rock singers are masters at getting a following by getting people to believe their problems are because of some existential threat. Your biggest enemy is looking back at you in the mirror
these days tho...to quote Glen Matlock “Johnny Rotten he’s on the other side (more right wing views) but I don’t know if he is. I think he just says what he says just to get in the paper. I doubt his sincerity about all that but by whether he voted for Trump or the Tories in England and if you don’t mean it I think that’s pretty poor.”
@@sally-annewatson2627 It doesn't matter how nicely you speak to him... he's looking for a chance to be Johnny Rotten. He's clearly brilliant, but, I doubt we'll ever fully know when he's yanking our chain or when he's speaking straight up. That said, it's sad he has the relationship he does with the other Pistols.
i love Johnny Rotten, he's so intriguing yet sooooo intimidating. An intellectual human being with an articulate and polite way of speaking but always keeping it punk. What a legend
He lives in L.A. for fuck sake. The wankers capital of the world. If that's your idea of 'keeping it punk' then punk is surely dead and buried. Over here he's not seen as particularly quick-witted or shocking cos there are plenty of working class people who can put people down with a succinct one-liner just as well as he can.
WaH? Look again, he is a confused, disagreeable rude little kid in the early stuff and then progressed into turning up to interviews with his massive ego and the sum total of being disagreeable and unnecessarily rude - please can someone who is a psychologist comment on this guy who's track record merely (- surely?) seems like ODD...? It must be pretty awful for any human to live around him unless it's purely an act that he keeps recycling. Psychologists comments please?
@@sally-annewatson2627 It's important to remember that our perceptions of public figures like Johnny Rotten (John Lydon) are often shaped by the media's portrayal and limited glimpses into their lives. While John Lydon, may have displayed disagreeable and rude behavior in his early career and to a lesser degree recently, it's crucial to approach such judgments with caution.
People can change and evolve over time, and the context in which we see them may not fully capture their true personality or struggles. It's also worth noting that public personas and stage personas can be quite different from a person's true self.
Regarding whether John Lydon's behavior could be indicative of Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD), it would not be appropriate for me to make a clinical assessment without a proper evaluation.
In summary, while John Lydon may have had a contentious public persona, it's important to approach our judgments with an understanding of the complexities of human behavior and the potential for growth and change over time.
@@sally-annewatson2627 You've already shown the mileage to indicate you have a good understanding of what Lydon is about, at least in his publicly expressed personas over the years.
You need zero psychology credentials to vet what your gut and eyes clearly illume when watching his output. ;)
Cheers.
@@sally-annewatson2627I'm not a psychiatrist or anything, but I've seen him giving decent answer too, they ask questions about something he don't care about so it's his way to voicing it. It's really that simple. Psychologist opinions on the matter are utterly worthless as they don't even know what à woman is anymore. Kurt Cobain was also a bit like this but not that quick witted.
Imagine what he was like to the teachers in high school.
Doubt he went
@Ken Mason johnny
rotten was?
@Ken Mason yeah I never knew that thanks. Also I really respect the dude he's pretty smart
To sir with love..?
Some teachers try to teach kids without giving the reasons why it can be useful. I'm sure John just asked them to justify it all for him to be interested in learning, as WE ALL SHOULD.
The man called out Jimmy Saville years ago and no one believed him . Respect
He SAYS he called him out. He didn't do a very good job of it since Sir Jimmy carried on noncing til his natural death, as a beloved national character and knighted OBE. I hope Johnny calls me out as some sort of evil character, I might win the lottery.
@Night Rider I remember Bill Wyman dating Mandy Smith, who was 13 while he was 44, being in all the papers. This was in the mid-1980s. People generally seemed to feel sick about it. I think there were a lot of people wondering why he wasn't in jail. But for some reason he wasn't punished.
This is a much later example than in the 1960s and 70s, but I suppose back then the age gap wasn't as far, since the offenders were younger, and it was more seen as being distasteful but consensual, a mortal meeting their idol, rather than an adult harming a child by psychologically manipulating them. It was portrayed as "naughty", "rock and roll excess", as if we all would secretly be raping 14 year olds if we could get away with it. But then, as now, it was only a small minority who actually found kids attractive.
It's the bloody media, isn't it? A bunch of extremely questionable, professional liars and bullshitters, who have their agenda in mind first, and then set out to arrange the facts and "facts" around the story they want to write. Why does anybody read the papers? Why do "opinion" columns exist? Can't we just ask our friends and acquaintances about their opinions? Why always some agenda-pushing sinister old arsepiece telling us what to think, creating the narrative line for us to follow to their conclusion like a fish being caught?
What's wrong with the media, but more importantly what's wrong with people that we let them exist?
Gnostic - Michael Jackson wasn't a paedo but some people will believe whatever they are told by moneygrabbing families after a piece of Jacksons estate
Greenaum - he called him out In the famous interview with Janet street porter. He didn't just 'say' he did it, the recording is on UA-cam from 1978. He was then banned from the BBC. He wasn't going to single handedly defeat savile who was being supported by the BBC and the royal family!!!
Gnostic-Esoteric agreed. I can’t listen to Jacko anymore. It’s sickening.
Reporter: Asks any question
Johnny: You just committed one of the classic blunders!
Holy shit. Abysmally underrated comment. Accurate in totality.
@@iratobustuarius7438 agreed
facts. "It's all a farce", and yet if "no one tells me what to do" then he wasn't obligated to the farce - he was invited, and accepted invitations to hundreds of these things just to pretend like "it's all a farce". Hypocrisy at it's finest, which means it's all just to broadcast his feigned superiority - so, narcissism at it's finest, too.
I unironically think most interviewers WANT Johnny to roast them. The man is like a vending machine, you put in a lame take and he spews out gold
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I was thinking the same thing! It’s not like they don’t know what to expect when talking with him!
He's totally into the 'git' persona isn't he? Thought it was a touch too much with that young journalist at the award show though.
Truth. They are certainly getting their few minutes of fame.
Pretty bad research from them if they didn’t excpect that treatment from him when asking stupid questions.
Interviewers: *breathes*
Johnny Rotten: I’m not tryna fooking impress anyone but myself
Nice try but no
@@provokedtrailormonkey2433 lol
Lmaooo tru
@@provokedtrailormonkey2433 yes
Did a bit more then fn breathe lol
Never forget it was John that first called Jim Savile out.
chipsthedog1 Correct. He did.
Yeah. Once. On a radio show segment that never aired. Then he says, "I did my bit". Bullshit. Just like everyone else that knew about what Jimmy was up to, Johnny did fuck all.
Rotten skirted around the issue, for a man so against the establishment he and many many others kept quiet for their own careers including our very own Esther Ranzon, head of fucking childlike for Christ sake. Wankers every single one off them let Saville continue abusing children for their own benefit.
He did very little. He said saville was into all sorts of sordid stuff, but didn't elaborate. It never aired, and he never said anything else.
@Brady Carrigan I don't think so. Lydon would have said that hed been threatened by now. Saville been dead for quite a while now.
He's been tearing at the veil of society's hypocrisy for decades. He could literally live forever and never be out of a job in that regard.
John is a brainwashed normie lol.
Oh yes, that hypocrite Trump supporter, really tearing at the veil of society's hypocrisy.
yeah such a rebel, Butter anyone?
@@alimantado373 'Should I Stay or should I go' by The Clash used to advertise an American global jeans brand)(levis) and licensed by Mick Jones and Co to be used but of course it's always John with the 'butter ad'.
The Clash the same band who railed against capitalism but sold the rights to one Their songs to one of the most capitalistic companies around.
At least John the balls to appear in his own ad unlike others
Zoot Rollo
"He should've shut his yap & got a job like the rest of us."
Really, so because you're happy slogging it out in mediocrity, it should be good enough for everyone else too? What a boring friggin life that would be.
Butter ad or not, Johnny leaves a legacy of autonomy few people ever will on this earth, & by the looks of it can still trigger the squares who just shut their yaps & work like slaves for the man.
The man is class...a total non conformist..without a care for what anyone else thinks..he wasnt just a sex pistol..he was also the founder of PIL..a great band in their own right..i find him a very knowledgable and articulate man.good on you sir
He has his issues, but at least he's honest and what you see is what you get.
Yes, like psychicos they are also honest
Hugo foreal. Johnny rotton is miserable prick who thinks being a 12 year old girl about every damn thing is cool even when ur a 60 year old man who can pay someone to write a book for you. No class no Brains not even enough musical ability to make true market worthy rock, yet he damn sure thinks he’s qualified to criticize it! Fuckin huge embarrassment to the entire English music industry which has had so many amazingly talented musicians for the little island and this anti-existence prick thinks he has a point that rock is shit because it’s played at airports? Doesn’t that just mean airports play better music than Muzak or whatever? The “punk” has absolutely no vision, no ideas, and even goddamn southpark’s Eric cartman outclassed the Sex Pistols when he saw •passion of the Christ” and dressed up like Hitler to lead a rally. Yup, this guy is like a tumor that can talk. Why did the world give it a microphone instead of chemotherapy?
@@polarnj rock and roll caught the plague, and you're delusional and holding onto a dead past that has been beaten post mortem to make sure every ounce of life got squeezed out of it. You're absolutely like johhny rotten, except about half the brains and half the balls, and I'm being generous.
TheChikleMasta which past am I holding on to? The most generous analysis I can give ur beloved whiny pussy and his 15 mins of fame is to acknowledge they were kind of making a similar point to Marcel Duchamp (although it was about fine art not music) when he signed a urinal and demanded someone tell him why it wasn’t art...but once the Dada art movement made its point, regardless of the difference in the fact that those making the point were extremely talented and visionary before being the original philosophical punks, it wasn’t of any value or intellectual/aesthetic purpose to create anti-art (ahem, Sex Pistols and Johnny the man with eternal sand in his vagina).
Regarding bullocks and brains? He’s one of few pop celebrities whom I can say was an absolute mistake and his corny ass persona is the only reason anyone talks to him. If Sid didn’t have his dramatic tragedy with Nancy, I’m afraid to let the “fans” of this lovely art (lmfao) wouldn’t even know the noise made by this collection of philosophically bankrupt AND talentless morons.
You want true punk music? As a genre it’s automatically faux ideology and bullshit by using the very term. Aphex twin, Björk, Laibach, MGMT, The Pixies, Sousie Soiux and the Banshees, fuck! even New Order! These randomly picked few artists off the top of my head were all sonically far more rebellious with the drive to push the envelope in music as well as in their visual and lyrical content and changed the entire concept of live performances in ways the Sex Pistols can only sneer at and half ass play the worst version of rock music ever to manifest itself like a child who survives hundreds of attempts to cause a miscarriage by its mother. Or maybe more like the fecal excretion pushed out during some live births. They are shit. They have nothing new to say. They are obnoxious. They are NOT musicians and I’ve never heard a critique worth a shit and when I was in fuckin high school I had a more highly developed philosophy regarding my contempt for the mainstream music industry.
I’d love to hear what Mr. Rotten DOESNT think sucks? Those who can create do, those who can’t, critique, which is fine. But those who can’t create and are bitter twats over it, pretend they have an agenda and just shit on the work of actual artists.
And no I couldn’t take him in a fight because I’m too dedicated to the ideal of mercy towards my enemies. I’ve learned that to further harm a man who is clearly unable to fight any longer only makes me feel sick by his lack of ferocity and will and so mercy and pity are all I could offer such a petty little shit like JR. I have control of my emotions which is something a uselss blowhard cartoon character such as he could never grasp. Hence, he has had PMS for so long i with the pussy would just bleed it out already or maybe get some therapy.
And my musical background is in the 90’s early 00’s Nj/Ny hardcore scene which has its roots in punk of the less Mohawk and clown suit variety. Actual political Violence, real life politics and blue color living is what fueled our scene. Not dressing up like skinny drag queens with stupid haircuts like the trash that hangs around doing jack shit whining cuz daddy didn’t play catch with me. And sid, learn to handle ur drugs.
Never mind the bullocks is right! the Sex Pistols are modern eurotrash Castrate.
@@polarnj not saying I agree with some or even anything you have said/written but like the way you put your argument across. Very detailed, factual and knowledgeable... Are you a journalist of some sort?
I'd like to see him on Hot ones.
This needs to happen.
Definitely
That show is a fucking snooze fest
@@TheGabrielberki When it's nothing but rap "artists" and people who look like they jumped out of a fashion magazine yes. But when it's comedians like Joey Diaz, Tom Segura and Bert Kreischer they bring more than just an over reaction to a sauce they bring with them interesting stories.
lord yes
I wish I had 1% of that sass, it’d last me for a bloody lifetime
Right on. He dont give a damn what people thinks of him.
You won't be able to live it.......be happy with what you are and can live with
You are definitely British.
don`t you mean trash ?
😆, I feel the same!
You could watch him for hours. Legend.
He is the most authentic person around. Huge respect for this man.
Interviewer: "Are You Honest?"
Johnny: "Yes, I Am. Very."
Interviewer: "I Think You're Trying To Shock People"
Johnny: "I Don't Give A S**t What You Think. I Know What I Think And That's All That Counts To Me. I Don't Try To Impress Anybody But Myself. "
Most Punk Thing Ever 👉
It kinda sounds like something really dumb, neurotic teenagers share on Facebook.
Why does every word you write start with a capital letter? Isn't it annoying being on the shift button so much or have you stopped noticing it?
@@SnorrioK, That's just the way i am. And no it is not so annoying to get every first letter of every word to a capital letter.
@@joshuaboulton36, I Agree 👉
@@thegrindcoreenthusiast7293 - I see that now, you only do it to get attention but when you're called out on it, you stop doing it. Not very consistent.
I remember once when Johnny was talking to Danny Devito on some talk show where they were both guests Johnny said to Danny, "I heard you like me." and Danny replied, "I said I liked the Sex Pistols, not you." Thats the ONLY time Ive EVER heard anyone outJohnny Johnny.
I still love Johnny though!!!!
I'm sure Johnny was impressed.
I would love to see that.. I mean how many times have Johnny got owned in public?
i tried finding it,.....can you remember the talk show'?,..............
nevermind,....found it,.......... (19:30) ua-cam.com/video/qgYWH_8u5aw/v-deo.html
Utterly have to watch this now, well after, thanks.
I respect Johnny
I’ve seen him when he was young and also when he was older, and he is so well spoken
He keeps his voice even and doesn’t yell, because he knows actions speak louder than words
He was a natural at speaking, a true musician and genuine person
I love how in inteviews where he's older he still sounds the same. Sure, darker voice as he got older. But still the same nonchalant way of speaking. I love it!
He was a troll before trolls were a thing.
He was brilliant
completely fucking different
He was more of a savage than a troll.
A narcissistic troll Lisa. I mean he thought his little band could end rock n roll, his contrived little band. That's some uber narcissism. PS - I don't mind some of the Pistols stuff, Roadrunner for instance. PIL are better though.
trolls have always been a thing we just have a word that describes it better
John is an absolute legend. A real national treasure. One of the most genuine people you will ever hear interviewed
He’s not genuine. Read other comments. He’s just like everybody else in real life, but puts on this old facade of a rebel whenever on tv because he thinks people like him
@@garmen- I think he once said he was literally impersonating Laurence Olivier in Richard III. Which if it's true he's actually doing a pretty bang up job.
I'm sure John Lydon would vomit at being described a 'national treasure'? Vulgar BBC language.
@@garmen- He's a loser.
so superman didn`t float your boat then ??
He still takes care of his wife. He has never cheated on her! He is true to himself as he has every right to be! Love him always! ❤️
Yes, he did right up until the end. Alzheimer's is a shitty way to go. RIP Nora Forster
@@TheNavarro6767 A long, loving marriage indeed. RIP Mrs Rotten.
Yep. He loved her more than his career.
Lost my mam to it last year, what a horrible disease god bless you Mr Rotten
You're supposed to take care of your wife, till death do us part was the line, remember? You don't get brownie points for doing what your supposed to do. It's like saying I look after my kids, yes, you're 'supposed' to look after your kids.
I don’t think “outclassed” is the correct word
The Ghost Files Squad butthurt
Lol. Totally
@Carter Atwell Best comment. He knows that 99% of the interviewers are simply sober and less overtly hostile Bill Grundys that want him to say "shit" but get to keep their jobs.
blew off is more like
Out-twatted far more accurate. He's a twat simply for the sake of being a twat. Being outright rude and intentionally hurtful to people is in no way classy.
It's almost like the only reason he shows up to interviews is just to get pissed off and walk out
LOL
It's the shock value of it. He knew & still knows what he's doing with this persona.
And this is why we’ll never get a wiki fact or fiction from Johnny rotten
Metalhead For life sorry to break it to you...
Which is too bad, as he is pretty interesting.
But we did get a butter commercial.
Meh lydon was a caricature.
@@Estragon17 interesting how his stories go nowhere like a Coke head
I remember when Johnny Rotten first appeared on the scene. I never expected that he would one day become an institution. He's ploughed his own furrow and remains his own man. I admire him immensely.
Young Johnny Rotten reminds me of the Joker
Ness Earthbound Jarod Leto should have been “influenced” by Jonny rotten for his joker role like Heath Ledger channelled Tom Waits
No no no heath ledger was influenced and channeled johnny rotten you mean
@@JaEDLanc Chill out there Literal Larry
He is
Reminds me of Bart Simpson lmao
How can one person be so cringy, yet so spot on at the same time. I love John, he’s an absolute living legend!
By not giving a fuck.
He is not cringy at all.
Cringy? No. Inspiring? Fuck yes.
He is an extremely edgy boi let's be honest, looks cringey as fuck when an old man is whining at kids about anarchy and being unique when his music is literally the most straight music with no inspiration in it anymore
Calamitous Old Johnny is not infallible, but you're absolutely insane to call his stuff the "most straight music", have you even heard Public Image Ltd.? Metal Box? Some of that stuff is still inspiring and ahead of its time
Everyone: Axl Rose is such an asshole.
Johnny Rotten: Hold my beer!
Its more like whiskey or Bourbon
Well there is a reason for Axl Rose and it is his psychosis, he has been clinically diagnosed with bipolar disorder. There are a lot a stories with him before taking his pills and when he didnt, Lars Ulrish i think in one interview was talking for this. Now for Johny - he is just an ordinary asshole with fake posing to create a image of bad boy. he is putting on an act badly
@@blackrock1009 Although Axl Rose has been kind of an ass at times at least there was an explanation for it and with the facts in place, Axl Rose is actually not as bad as everyone makes him out to be as he certainly has redeemable qualities and in fairness to the guy it looks like hes made a concious effort to change which is great as I am delighted for the guy. Johnny Rotten on the other hand is just borderline rude with the only excuse is that he was posing with this punk rock, don't give a crap kind of attitude but contrary to what I said I know some people who have actually personally met Johnny Rotten and they said he was a pretty alright guy so maybe Rotten really is putting on a bad boy act.
It's not that Mr Lydon is an asshole, it's more the interviewers mouths
@@extropy1 I think many people generally perceive Lydon to be rude and abrasive but I think thats mainly due to the media perputuating that image in public interviews which generally are formalized and I think Lydon is just one of those people who calls peoples bs out with no regard for his image or others which i'll say is refreshing cause he has a level of honesty that many people in show business don't have. Contrary to what I said, I think Lydon puts on a bad boy act cause it fits with the image he has built for himself being one of the biggest named in the punk rock scene. Also one of my good mates met him a few years ago and said that Lydon is actually a pretty cool guy whos good to his fans and just one of those people you can sit down and have a beer with when chatting to him which just goes to show that the media really perpetuates a lot of false information about almost anything under the sun.
Lyndon has received a lot of praise (and rightly so) in this commentary section; I am mostly impressed by his long, loving marriage to Nora, who now suffers from Alzheimer’s. The first time I heard “Hawaii”, I immediately recognized who was singing and what it was about; it moved me to tears. It’s one of the best love songs I’ve ever heard. Of all the celebrities I could possibly meet, he’s the one I’d most like to chat with. I wish him all the best.
He gets my respect for saying what he thinks and to be honest he is well versed in the way the world works. Good on you John
so what do you think ? paul .............to EARN our respect..keeping in mind jonney rotten`s view points aka PuNk noise means crape
@Gisselle ST Crazy how a member of the most sellout punk band in existence is angry about punk changing
What he thinks about what? He's never said anything meaningful in his entire life. He's a complete normie lol
@@gavriilkremastiotis1914 tell us you don't know shite without telling us you don't know shite
@@Sid_Vicious-hu6yn U dont even have to listen to punk to know that fact, stop worshipping people
John is a physical Manifestation of all my negative thoughts and emotions.
Lol
the most relatable comment ever
Nothing negative about the truth. Anger itself is not necessarily negative but how it is weilded. Imagine never being angry 😠 😤. Unnatural.
LOL...I've got to use that one on some people I don't like.
Fuck off.
I wouldnt say he outclassed anybody, he just tried really hard to be a pain in the arse.
It came naturally to a low IQ goblin.
Agreed.
@@nista67 lmao goblin. True
The word "outclassed" can have several dif meanings here, none of them fits how he behaves or what he does...
I mean his book is literally called "Anger is an energy" no one's perfect mate
I love him. A smart, respectable, incredible man. An inspiration.
This guy is a true punk. Not only he disgraces the hipocrisy of the society but also stood against the hipocrisy of entertainment industry including rock and roll, which probably inspired the whole punk rock.
nimesh chaulagain yeah he looked real punk in a butter advert.
The sex pistols and John lydon were always in it for the money
Prog Rock Anarchy Maybe to make a living and a wage but apart from that fuck no. If anything the ramones and the clash were more "in it for the money" than the pistols because the ramones had official merchandise and the pistols didn't even have that.
Inspired? Punk? It was literally conceived by a boutique owner and a businessman. It's all in the official documentary "The Filth and the Fury".
nimesh chaulagain - and then he went on to do adverts for butter. Yeah, right.
I saw him with PIL in the Glasgow Barrowlands many years ago and some people were doing that punk rock spitting at the band thing. He John stopped the song mid way through and said, “Please don’t spit on me, it’s boring and outdated. If you want to spit on anyone, go spit on your local MP, alright?”. Legend.
I also saw him in NYC early or mid 80s. He was throwing tampons at the audiance. I think he raided the bathroom vending machines. He also looked at me for a second during the performance and I felt awe and scared at the same time.
Now that is Class !!!
I'm glad people don't gob at the bands anymore. No fun.
I'm always having to dodge beer cans while drumming but that isn't as bad!
Interviewer: "got any um-"
Johnny: "NO!" "Hehehehehe"
I love him 🤣
He's not a "difficult" man or intentionally controversial; he tells the truth, as we all should. For a kid that grew up destitute in the slums of London, naturally he would learn early the true nature of humans. Johnny on the spot!
This guy is a legend… he always knew these people on tv are all just manipulative, fake characters who will only allow you to follow there ways. He stood up against that, that’s why they hated him. It wasn’t fair, he didn’t deserve to go through life being hated on for truth and self love.
nah man he really did deserve it. every clip is him pretending to not want to be there and ruining everyone's day - and yet he insisted on showing up to hundreds of hours of these things just to be seen being insufferable. that's not punk. that's narcissism. and when you build an identity on that, broadcasting it to the world at every possible opportunity, you deservedly end up completely alone.
@@willluck7662 nah dude he did it to keep his career you sped, if he didn’t show up he’d get no publicity and his managers clearly needed his publicity to sell his records. You may be the stupidest person to even comment in a UA-cam history section… to date.
Imagine Lydon as a life coach emphasizing self esteem and setting boundaries.
Tony Robins would be teaching 5th grade
That's the glass half full approach I guess. 😆
Damn, his attitude epitomizes the genre of music he makes.
Shit?
Plastic and contrived?
@@MatameVideos 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
This legend is 50% of the 100% of the epitome of punk and I'm only part of the 3%
@@MatameVideos awe you're mad because he supports orange man and doesn't sellout to corporatism cry harder
More people need to be like him
That would be fucking exhausting. As much as I like John, a little bit of politeness and courtesy goes a long way to just getting through the day.
Well, he's clearly a very intelligent well spoken man.
Rotfl
Why would you believe that?
@@MrDerushingo He has more intelligence in his pinky finger than your entire redundant protoplasm.
@@thetavibes9021 😂 Get him.
@@MrDerushingo it was sarcasm.
As an American, this man is a level of British I thought only existed on TV shows.
I was never into punk but I like johnny rotten. He cannot be talked down by any interviewer. He's a pretty solid chap. He was calling out Jimmy saville years ago. Top guy.
He's rightfully taken this position of defiance against the media. He's always understood that they aren't interested in the truth or genuine interaction let alone art. His disdain is applied appropriately.
At 4:30, "Punk became like, fascist..."
I've always considered this quite telling. Even John saw that punk was becoming cliquish and that a certain 'uniform' was expected in order to join the club. Brilliant that he wanted no part of that. I always find it ironic when people try to label bands as punk or not punk.
pUnK is not music it`s.........................................................................CRAPE.
True words, everything that starts as claims to individuality and against the herd, tends to become a herd in itself. Like punk or any other alternative style that says "be yourself", eventually this particular be yourself becomes a fixed image. What I say is screw herds, if you like punk rock but want to wear a suit and tie do it, you don't have to belong, being useful is not necessarily a compliment.
@@viictor1309 Well, he did buy into it at one point. But poeple often get like that AFTER the fashion. Once they are outside the clique they deride cliques. He certainly wanted to be a Ramones groupie and be part of it at the outset. But once corporations get involved...
Really intelligent, wasn't moved by any shit comments
Yup punks telling you to wear a mask and get vaccinated has to be the most unpunk
Thing I have ever fucking seen
He seems to be the kind of guy who needs people to think he doesn't care what people think about him.
How can you tell if he genuinely doesn't give a fuk what people think about him or it's an act?
I think I'm 12.
He really doesn't.
He's a prima donna of the highest degree. He would say " I don't care" but he needs you to care whether he cares or not, to say " I don't care" narcissist manipulation at it's worst/best. Those interviewers are only doing thier job. You can be different without being an arsehole. So he is a loud arsehole but he knows it. Interesting he keeps saying he doesn't care. Then gets pissed off. If you don't care about something it shouldn't piss you off. He won't care about our petty comments and really, why should he? Way to important to care about that, or should I say self important. Nobody really care's that he doesn't care. He must only get asked that every ten years now. I still laugh at it just because it is shocking. Camera or no camera, I wouldn't let someone speak to me that way. Glasgow Kiss.
@@Y0ungContrarian should remove and replace that with devoured. He ate for whatever meal he was due. I like him still though I do think he's a prick but so does he. I was thinking the other day, what do you do if you are really good at something nasty. I can be really good at being sarcastic and cynical but I try not to be because I am fundamentally a nice person.
Jonny has always seemed to me, an hugely articulate and interesting individual. Nothing in this video has changed that view; he's an intelligent person, who dedicated his life in a particular direction that he loves. Isn't that what all of us should aspire to, whether "intelligent" or otherwise? Do what thou wilt... as long as you're staying true to yourself and not hurting anybody.
It's the uh... it's the not hurting anybody part. He insists on doing tv interviews, just to come on and be seen ruining everyone's day. I don't think ending up alone is very aspirational.
@@willluck7662 mr lydon is anything but alone.
Will dear boy it sound's to me your the one alone...so good luck
@@willluck7662 I would *strongly* suggest learning the powerful art of "unplugging" to rise above the bullsh1t if just watching the telly or web crap has the power to "ruin" your day. That's all on you and your choice of self-sabotage if you give away your mental autonomy to a stranger saying something that easily. Unplug! :) Cheers.
Few people in the media had the wit or intellect to understand John. The man is a creative artist. Thanks for these clips.
To be fair, he did outclass Kennedy. Even in her introduction, she came after him by nonchalantly calling his life "sordid", and he shut her smug ass down immediately.
Of anybody in those clips, Kennedy had it coming the most.
Kennedy was always a nitwit. How did she ever get a job interviewing rock/ pop stars? I recall she once asked David Bowie if he followed The Grateful Dead. He looked at her like, wha the fuck is wrong with you for asking such a stupid question.
@@NSHM122 She really didn't like what she was doing. She wanted to get into broadcast media and she got her foot in the door with MTV. She was aiming for someplace very far to the right of that genre, but used it as a jumping off point. She never gave a shit about the subject or people she was interviewing and you can tell. Once she found her way into the outlets of her preference, she didn't do much better as it seems she's just naturally snitty and vapid.
The rats in the roof of my garage outclass Kennedy
I recently watched a clip of her interviewing Tori Amos in the 90's and it went down in a similar fashion. Tori owned her.
No he didn’t. 😆
Your observational bias is showing.
"Have you got any....."
"NO!" 🤣🤣🤣
Hahah that was gold
So funny 🤣
He seems like a sound bloke, just telling it like it is in his own direct style.
He kinda just comes across as bitter and maybe a bit narcissistic to me
he comes off as a edgy kid, whos parents let him do whatever. its fucking cringy
@@dmitrijsmironovs7513 Yup. He's an idiot. He tries to shut people down before they have a chance to respond by saying things like "I don't care what you think" or "I'll just walk off" because he doesn't want to enter into any kind of discussion as he hasn't rehearsed enough 'edgy' lines. What's really cringe is that he's still like it as a grown man. The bottom line is that he has made a living as a musician without one iota of musical ability - yet he has the audacity to talk about how rock music has become all about image...
@Jeff Peate 😂
Jeff Peate antiestablishment? Swearing and the I don’t give a f£&ck attitude? More like perfect establishment propaganda. The only reason for punk to exist, was to demonise actual antiestablishment sentiment growing at the time. He was the perfect poster boy for the slaves not to push for true anarchy. Antiestablishment???? Irony!!!!
love the authenticity and self respect, what a legend
John has chilled out and become a little more sophisticated with age. I said, a little bit. LoL. So far since the four John's.
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He will never go with the narrative and really doesn't give a sh*t.
I love this guy !
Genuine too.
He's actually a piece of shit. He would probably call you a stupid fucking wanker for even defending him. 🙄
@@johnkoepke4807 Lol maybe
I couldn’t stand the bloke when I was young, but now that I’m old and have learned to despise media puppets, I’ve gained a lot of respect for him. It doesn’t mean I’d feel confident to ask him a question though, not even if he’d like a cup of tea.
If you did ask him "would you like a cup of tea" he'd probably answer, "What is a cup of tea? You might be offering me a MUG of tea. Or a cup of coffee. Or a MUG of coffee. You have to be more precise about those proposals which you are currently tendering. I'm going now because you said there was going to be a big blancmange and there isn't any!"
"It's a farce"
I would pay top dollar to have see manson and johnny in the same room together.
That'd be hell and heaven at the same time
And the one who everyone sees as hell would be the heaven.
Alex Lovely very true
And throw in trump just for fun.
I thing twiggy would be more interesting
Is there anything at all that he wants to talk about? If not, then what's the point of ever interviewing him?
Seriously, why even go to events or interviews if he sees no point in it.
He doesn’t answer when it’s not relevant that’s the point
Because he gets off on being an asshole, anything beyond that is just his fans making excuses for him. He absolutely lives for interviews because he gets to play "Punk Rocker VS The Establishment" and act like he's being harassed by voluntarily being there. He's the musician equivalent to those annoying law students that actively seek out traffic stops and then film themselves intentionally escalating the situation when the cop asks them for their license.
His fans just make stupid excuses for him like "He wants to be asked meaningful questions" as though the guy is some Harvard graduate that's acting out because he's bored.
@@JaEDLanc You aren't even good at being a nationalist. I'm not American nor do I live there.
You're as coked out as your talentless hero.
Chris 2020 obviously it provides him publicity.
everything he says sounds like a line of a villain in a corny young adult novel
Nah, he is just Johnny
@@jerrysmith8814 i blame "johnny" for all the 13 year old edge lords today
@@seanlundy2837 I don't think any of the edgy teenagers know about John
@@seanlundy2837 btw I called him Johnny, because I think that Johnny Rotten and John Lydon are not the same person.
maybe the sound doesn't cover it maybe there's a little more to it. looking at his contributions to call it 'popculture' and his passion earns him more than clichés when judging him. he is irritating because he breaks the pattern of tv land - 'great' or 'i'd like to thank god and my producer'. i wonder what brings people here in the first place - seems theres some connection in possibly listening to 'punk' and getting upset when somebody doesnt perform like they are supposed to as you expect them to and that makes people angry. nothing corny here- depressing is more suitable
Putting his music aside, I've always loved his honesty. Tells it as he sees it. Respect.
People underestimated Johnny they thought he was a clown because he was a punk . This man was above his years in the brains department.
It's like you can see he's getting genuinely pissed off with these interviewers wasting his time. Yet with some of them he almost comes across as feeling sorry for them that they're wasting their own time too, and they don't even realise it.
haha except he was invited to hundreds of these things, and if "no one tells me what to do" then he accepted all of those invitations willingly - just to show up and broadcast to everyone how good he was at pretending not to care. narcissism and hypocrisy become blaringly obvious at that fact.
@@willluck7662 He was invited to like a gentleman he rocks up time and time again but when he's asked utterly ridiculous questions and or intentionally passively aggressively attacked by these piss weak cowardly journalists he calls them out. Can't say I see a single issue with that whatsoever. You certainly come across like the chip on the shoulder type perceiving such a simple concept in that way.
@@willluck7662 This. I guess I don't know what else I expected from his punk ass though.
Funny thing is he has a really nice, sweet smile there when he’s laughing at the end.
and your point is ?
@@novdt cringe. the point is the comment is the point.
Good man. Glad he’s been around. Life’s been better with Jon Lydon in the world.
johnny’s views on society were 30-40 years into the future and the people of that time couldn’t accept that
future of W H A T !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@@novdt future of SOCIETY
“Outclassed” might be a bit generous, as much as I love Johnny Rotten.
Asking Johnny if he change his values cos he got an award is pure suicide.
It seems asking him anything is suicidal......why bother agreeing to an interview if a) you think the questions are beneath you or b) the questions are going be inane?
@@fidget2020 nonsense u ask him an intelligent question he will give u an intelligent or at least an honest reply.
Glad she asked bc I love his response to that 😂 so melodic I have it memorized
@@fidget2020 most of those questions WERE inane. Or the interviewers were trying to challenge him to make a name for themselves (like the moron who was goading him to hear what Malcolm McClaren had to say... and then says "I'm going to tell you anyway" when Johnny says he doesn't want to know).
Watch interviews with Johnny by decent interviewers. It's a different story.
I've done lots of celebrity interviews over the years and I approach them all with respect. I also make sure I've done my RESEARCH before the fact (what was up with that last idiot who didn't seem to have a clue what he was even asking).
I would have no fear interviewing Johnny Rotten and believe he would be an excellent guest.
I think it is a reasonable question. If he disagreed with award ceremonies it would appear he changed his values just because he won something.
Absolute hero, we need clear thinkers like J L more now than ever before.
I don't think you understand what having "class" means.
@Kozmic Blooze I think you're right and I'm wrong. According to the internet definition, it turns out class just means "having stylish excellence". I think it's fair to say his negative attitude is a style. Well done sir.
"Class": Being a bourgeois prick who gets offended by how other live their lives, speak up..
Personally, I think those PC "journalists" cared more about what his opinions were than he cared about theirs..
Rookie Silver Stacker low-life council estate class
Yeah, he's just being petulant.
It's a very poor channel 😢 , what do you expect ?
We need this energy again.
Some real honesty there until it gets to the Mojo awards - that interviewer had him banged to rights about contradicting himself and his response was simply to be as belittling and patronising as possible. Not cool or clever at all.
Yup.
I thought it was funny
I'd say it was dumb from the beginning, I'm struggling to understand what his deal was with the rock n roll rant. First of all, famous rock musician says that rock is shit? "I thought the Sex Pistols would be the end of rock n roll" so somehow you thought you could end rock music by contributing to it? makes perfect sense. And I know there's probably context missing here, but I fail to see how the things he's saying would make sense in any context. You cant hate rock music from a conceptual standpoint, even at the time of that interview the genre had already become all-encompassing to the point that there is rock music for any type of person.
Shut up ya simp.
@@ghostfacedude93 How considered and erudite. You definitely burned me there. 😂
Thank you so much for posting this one bud.
wow, I only now understand the brilliance of this artist.
Wonder what Johnny would have said if tom snyder told him he would be doing butter ads in 30 years?
Glass jaw ha good point
That comment probably would have made Rotten laugh with Tom instead of at him (I like Tom). Maybe Rotten would also have thrown a "Depends on how much they're offering" follow-up to Tom.
"Gimme my money"
Cheers ,"show me the money"
He did that ad to support a product from his home town. And to finance a PIL tour, and because he uses it.
How original you pick on that.
I can't figure out a way to start a conversation with this guy:
Me: Hello, I am Jacob. How are you?
Johnny: Oi doun fockin' care..nun of yo fockin' biznis.
Me: Outclassed
He's very well REHEARSED
😂
I respect him for saying how other people choose to exist does not concern him, but it would concern me if their behaviour infringed on how I, or others choose to live.
He sounds like someone's who's overestimated their role in the history of music while also being disappointed that he hasn't had more success.
Jason Meadows you cannot really believe that?
@Christian Beck are u American I'm guessing?
Saying that he is disappointed about his lack of success is an awfully ignorant statement. He could of continued doing Sex Pistols at any point in his life and made big money, but he chose to completely mix it up and push musical envelopes. Don't know where you are getting your information
@@nickanderson9094 sadly he probably does
@Christian Beck lmao, that " mis " quote was from Sid Vicious not Johnny. Do some research matey.
'I have the tremendous priveledge of doing what i want to do. No-one tells me what to do'.
Thats great john. Pass me the country life butter please.
but It's not about Great Britain, it's about Great Butter.
So you think he would have done the butter adverts if he didn't want to? Get real mate.
I don't know why people hate him so much he's a classic geezer
Both his parents were from Ireland , his wit, wisdom , and sarcasm is very Irish, but the real John Lydon got left behind over 40 yrs ago around the time that the Sex Pistols started to get press coverage.
That is very true.
IS HE FUCK!!!!
No way, he is not a typical Brit.
Wow you must not know any Englishmen then, if that's what you think!
"I dont give a shit what you think. I know what I think and thats all that counts." - words to live by
Johnny Rotten is iconic
More intelligent than Trump....
YoursTruly yea best butter salesman I’ve ever seen “yea fuck the system it’s a farce buy this butter and stick it to the establishment!!”
Thats true, iconic moronic jerk.
Like Sid Vicious
We need more people like him. Someone unafraid to say what he wants, instead of trying to say the most pc thing
No because he’s not calling people and women shitty, derogatory names. He’s being himself but not being cruel and bigoted to others. There’s a difference between being outspoken and independent and being an asshole with no filter.
@@edl6398 it's called a reality check, we need more brutal honesty, such as telling parents that "no your 5 year old doesn't identify as a fucking non binary carrot" and telling men "throwing on a dress and calling yourself a women doesn't make you a woman"
@@kevinmorrice It’s not a reality check. It’s a reaction from bullies and small little men who think draconian laws are the way to suppress people who make them uncomfortable.
Every GOPer seems to be a Christian bigot who practices nothing akin to tolerance but judges everyone as harshly as possible.
This isn’t about your kids. This is about your insecurity and a changing world that makes you feel less important than you were when only guys like you were in charge. You are a dinosaur.
@@kevinmorrice hey i found an asshole with no filter
@@kevinmorrice I'm sure Jonny would be more in favour of people wearing what they want and being who they want, rather than taking your position of telling people how they should live.
He has been punched by a music host once. The interviewer was Molly Meldrum. Apparently as the story goes, Molly introduced himself to Rotten, he flicks a lit cigarette at the cameraman, hitting him in his eye, and so Molly king hit him...
Molly king? From the saturdays? You sure?
Even Australia's campest music presenter, a bloke called "Molly", can chin Johnny Rotten any day of the week. Straya!
He is a legend
Manufactured like a boy band
Some of these were definitely not examples of him "outclassing" anyone. Particularly the one where the interviewer at the award ceremony calls him out for being a hypocrite. All he could do was get petulant and play the "I'm famous and you're not" card. That's not winning the argument. That's pretty fucking weak tbh. He looked like a fucking tool in that clip.
Also the "I'm older than you therefore I'm right" card. Pathetic.
@offworldresident Except that's a sociological question, and John Lydon never made any claim to being a sociologist. Why should he pretend to have an expert opinion on the inner workings of the younger generation? As for the awards ceremony, his response was fair enough. If the interviewer thought it likely that his opinion of awards ceremonies had changed, she clearly didn't know who she was talking to.
Did you notice that those people were insufferable? Yeah, Johnny is not always on his A-game, especially as he gets older, but there's nothing wrong with showing disdain for those idiots. Are you, perhaps, from California?
I believe the main thrust of what he said is he's in a position to do whatever he wants to do. The implication is if he wants to go to an awards show he goes. It seems to me his consistently expressed philosophy is that he does what he wants to, and he doesn't care what people think. This always gives him a pretty convenient out because no matter what he does, the only way to hold him to charges of hypocrisy is to argue he's not actually doing what he wants to do, but that would require knowing what's going on inside his head better than he does. Basically she's walking up to him and telling him he doesn't really want to be there, and how the f would she know? Or she's just uninformed about what he's actually been saying all along.
If your version of punk or counter culture requires so much purity that a person must never be doing something society wants them to, that is actually an even more rigid rule than the freedom within mainstream culture, i.e. always having to break the rules is itself a rule that constrains you from just doing what you want to. That's the joke with the goths on Southpark right?: All the "normal" kids get to wear all different colors, but to be a goth you *have* to wear black - the social norms of the supposed counter culture movement are actually more rigid than those of the culture itself. Everyone can end up trying to be different in exactly the same way, which is just another flavor of conformity.
The question of whether or not to attend an award shows for John doesn't seem to me to be a question of "is it punk rock to go?" or "is it punk rock not to go?", but rather "if I want to go I go, and damn any rules that try to tell me what to do and any reporters who come along trying to enforce them" and I think that's pretty great.
@@dner75-xh9le Doesn't Lydon live in LA? You should read a little more and not be such a vacuous twat. I'm just kidding, reading probably wouldn't help that.
Iggy Pop, Johnny Rotten, Joe Strummer and Joey Ramone are the Mount Rushmore of Punk Rock...
VB MUTT greatest comment of all time! Oi oi up the punx! FACTS! 🤘✊👊🤘
And Polystyrene.
VB MUTT don’t forget Miley Cyrus
I'd put Dee Dee on there rather than Joey.
Iggy pop? Fuck off hes a twat
i feel as if johnny would hate me as a person but i kinda like that lol
He forgot to say thanks to Malcolm McLaren. 😂😂😂
I was 12 when the Pistols were at their peak. They changed a whole generation.
But you're wrong, most of that generation still bought Queen records unfortunately, he'd have you for lunch 😂
@@stepheng8779 What’s wrong with queen?
@@leoncorbett4553 queen is the antithesis of everything the sex pistols stood for
Sex Pistols are an industry plant
@@leoncorbett4553 if you have to ask that you're in the wrong place