Yes, just that he contradicts himself completely if you let him talk long enough, if you consider that honesty that's fine. Total mess of a mind that guy has and it's for real, it's not for show, he never turns off.
@@thestr8person totally agree there really is no off button even in his early 60's. Witness the interviews on this website - even mild mannered interviewers are ridiculed, talked down to and patronised - especially the ones who don't shower him with praise.
That is true,Anne Beverly Mother from Sid Vicious saw this before she died of an overdose and she was upset what John Lydon aka Johnny Rotten said about Sid.
+Daniela Schwarz Yes , it's hard what John says about Sid. He's maybe really honest when he talks about Sid in the film "the filth and the fury". Sid was not a good bass player but when he joins the pistols he was learning bass and he really tried to play bass . But after heroin did a dirty work on him ... and then to learn bass was not a priority. Glen stays the original bass player and he's a fabulous bass player and songwriter.
Houl23 Yes it is hard and I read tha Anne Beverly,you know all that Anne was his mum and she was heroin addicted since 1962,but in some interviews he talk great about Sid and that he missed him and that Johnny was to young to handle with his dead because his mum died in november on terminal cancer and I lost my mum too:( Anyway the shit heroin cancle your feelings and your creativity,you are right).... So,when his mum saw this video she was so upset what Johnny said about SID and then or few day´s afer this interview from Johnny she made a overdose in September 1996.
crazy that even this is now 21yrs ago ... time !?!? I remember it like yesterday @ the Molson Amphitheatre in Toronto . I had the perfect spot , 3 steps up at the back of the floor - just beautiful & they were fantastic , absolutely fantastic ... then a short time after was Steve's Neurotic Outsiders at a little club RPM also Toronto of which I swear that was the best Punk Band I had ever seen bar nobody !! Pure Class
Maybe because no one was as interesting as him and let's be honest, would the interview be better if johnny shut up? I don't think so,he just spoke his mind and was totally real
I remember watching all this when I was like 11 or 12?! The Sex Pistols was the coolest shit I ever discovered back then . I worked for a record store handing out flyers , I hung out and just looked through records all day .. what made this store great , is about half of their records were bootlegs of live shows or rarities . My first CDs were Great Rock n Roll Swindle and then a couple live double disc releases . And then outta nowhere , Johnny Rotten was back and pissed off and I was ALL IN . I never got to see them live , but it was surreal to be exposed to Green Day/Rancid/Pennywise/NoFX and other skin/NYHC bands , then have this OG maniac show up to fuxking spank everyone haha . Damn this brought back memories man . I’m punching out!
The only way johnny works is if no one else is like him. As long as everyone else is more polite, but if someone else was just like him, he'd never be able to deal with that. I do agree with some of what he says and I actually kind of like him as a person.
when Lord Lydon speaks they all listen. there may be 3 other members in the band but they all wanted to hear what John had to say. I could tell Paul was irritated when John jumped when he was trying to speak. it was the John Lydon show that day.
"We invented punk?" LOL! Johnny's ailing memory should be reminded that he cites The Ramones & The NY Dolls as key influences. The Pistols & The Clash were listening to both bands long before any of 'em signed a record deal. The Ramones are still universally regarded as the Fathers Of Punk. That signature time beat in all of 2-minutes or less has become the blueprint for a genre of music known as "punk."
Hey heads up check out an Aussie punk band Radio Birdman that were formed before any true punk band and they sorta had that classic punk Ramones sound but a bit speed up.
@@gronxman1 So why did he try and get backstage at the first gig they played in London to meet them? He thought they were a legit gang from NYC and thought he had to act tough. They offered him a beer that they had pissed in and he drank it. I'd probably be mad if that happened to me and was common knowledge afterwards. He's a tosser.
- Do you like Oasis? - They're just a rock band, y'know. That's about as much of a compliment you could ever get from Johnny. I bet Liam and Noel are proud of that.
well, one bottom line of true punk is provocation (another is rebellion). this is what they do here. I went to the Filthy Lucre Show in '96, and this now seems like a century ago ...this video in retrospective is a bit dated. I keep on playing their music as it gives me strength in this world that goes down the drain and seems sometime to make no sense at all. As the Ten Years After sang: "I wish I could change it but I do not know how....". Keep rockin' ya' all
I sadly was born about a decade & a half too late for all of this but what fascinates me is just how relevant they are today & how little has changed?!! Xx
He is so much more mature at this time of his life, in the past he would have spat on all the press and walked off by now! lmao He has valid points of the music industry, look at Taylor Swift's fight in 2019 for control of her art...
That's a dumb thing to say ... John , Glen , Steve , Paul - 4 great songwriters in a great band , it's called chemistry & that kind of magic does not happen very often .
After being a fan as a kid I was so excited when this happened and remember thinking “Wow doesn’t Steve look old…!” Now looking at it as a 51 year old myself he doesn’t look so old..! It was a great year 1996 and that weekend in London the end of June…… Madness, Pistols & the Euros all going on. The Tories only a year away from being ousted…! Britpop…… the UK was buzzing……… 28 years later…….where did it all go wrong…!
@@prpwnage9296….. that and as we get older we discover most of our Heroes have feet of clay and are happy just to ‘feather their nest’……. At least the Pistols were up front and honest about that. They did call the tour ‘Filthy Lucre’ after all
Steve gives Johnny a cigarette so he can shut up
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 I knew as soon as he stood up, that was it. 😂
Paul looks embarrassed 😂
12:40 Rotten calling out Fake News 20 years before it became fashionable.
Reunion?
We have found a common cause and it is your Money
Best Reply EVER
This was when pop punk hit big honestly I'm glad they cashed in on the trend the pistols deserved to make some money
pop punk, wtf?
Lev Gtz Green Day, sum 41 etc
@@ginsu7077 they’re not punk they’re ker plunk.
Yep. They deserve every guinea.
They made everyone's career possible.
Seriously Delano seriously?
I really love John, he speaks his mind, and I admire that! A totally honest guy,deeply respected.
Yes, just that he contradicts himself completely if you let him talk long enough, if you consider that honesty that's fine. Total mess of a mind that guy has and it's for real, it's not for show, he never turns off.
@Nigel 61 He's got the right to do what he wants!
@@thestr8person totally agree there really is no off button even in his early 60's. Witness the interviews on this website - even mild mannered interviewers are ridiculed, talked down to and patronised - especially the ones who don't shower him with praise.
@@revol148 agreed. I like the man, but he does have a huge ego.....
@@thestr8person He's the ultimate narcissist.
Thanks for posting this
Great interview ! John eats the press !!!
That is true,Anne Beverly Mother from Sid Vicious saw this before she died of an overdose and she was upset what John Lydon aka Johnny Rotten said about Sid.
+Daniela Schwarz Yes , it's hard what John says about Sid. He's maybe really honest when he talks about Sid in the film "the filth and the fury". Sid was not a good bass player but when he joins the pistols he was learning bass and he really tried to play bass . But after heroin did a dirty work on him ... and then to learn bass was not a priority. Glen stays the original bass player and he's a fabulous bass player and songwriter.
Yes, but she was the one feeding her son smack after Nancy died, she's responsible for Sid's death
Houl23 Yes it is hard and I read tha Anne Beverly,you know all that Anne was his mum and she was heroin addicted since 1962,but in some interviews he talk great about Sid and that he missed him and that Johnny was to young to handle with his dead because his mum died in november on terminal cancer and I lost my mum too:( Anyway the shit heroin cancle your feelings and your creativity,you are right)....
So,when his mum saw this video she was so upset what Johnny said about SID and then or few day´s afer this interview from Johnny she made a overdose in September 1996.
@Anderson Cooper ALL OF YOU ARE RIGHT.
He Does Not Let The Press Control The Narrative, He Control's it !!!! Love John Lydon
Here we have it. Freedom. Say what you want, be what you wanna be, do what you want to do. Love em.
Steve definitely looks like a Michael Madsen fan
wish they would gig again...
highly unlikely
@@UnkleJohn84 I dunno Jonesys jukebox says otherwise
+MrCrispian you clearly didn't see them at Crystal palace in 2002 - they were terrible
@@germa9850 Jonesy said rotten always made him uncomfortable.
This was like a return of the legends...humble...real.....
John is possibly one of the wisest people on the entire planet.
crazy that even this is now 21yrs ago ... time !?!? I remember it like yesterday @ the Molson Amphitheatre in Toronto . I had the perfect spot , 3 steps up at the back of the floor - just beautiful & they were fantastic , absolutely fantastic ... then a short time after was Steve's Neurotic Outsiders at a little club RPM also Toronto of which I swear that was the best Punk Band I had ever seen bar nobody !! Pure Class
I'd like to here the other Pistols speak.
Yeah but they didn't. They had plenty of chances
It's like saying you want to hear the other members of VanHalen speak when Roth has a mic in his hand. Good luck with that.
Their mics were not working
Steve is the greatest!! a King!!!
Arise - King Steven!
and then there's Jeff Beck, So if Jonesy Is King then Beck is God
Johnny Rotten never let anyone speak.
at least he didn't kill his girlfriend 😕
No. He seems to see the others as his backing band
Sid had the best voice, period
He's playing to the press
Maybe because no one was as interesting as him and let's be honest, would the interview be better if johnny shut up?
I don't think so,he just spoke his mind and was totally real
I see them at
Phoenix festival.
Awesome.
Old and young united.
The Johnny Rotton show as usual. I love the guy I really do but his ego is bonkers
WOW, this is like when 19 years was like a long time in Rock & Roll!
John is hilarious i fucking love him hahaha!!
Brilliant, so funny, never been a band to match them.
This was simultaneously hilarious and excruciating. The Pistols destroyed the previous notion that hilarious and excruciating were mutually exclusive.
When John came on with ‘Fat, 40 and back!!! That was exhilarating, so funny, really owned it
Saw reunion show Boston ma USA 5th row e cant get better than that!
Some valid points from Steven and Glen
Glen still looks 20 years old here
And looks like he wants to leave again
I wish we had a music revolution again - Music has gone backwards to before Punk.
+Graham Hendry it's dead - just move on to something else rather than expecting anything more from this has-been art form !
+Graham Hendry it's dead - just move on to something else rather than expecting anything more from this has-been art form !
Yep. It is 1975 with insipid pop ruling the charts
It's coming
"I am 21 and I have been like that for 19 years" - super
I remember watching all this when I was like 11 or 12?! The Sex Pistols was the coolest shit I ever discovered back then . I worked for a record store handing out flyers , I hung out and just looked through records all day .. what made this store great , is about half of their records were bootlegs of live shows or rarities . My first CDs were Great Rock n Roll Swindle and then a couple live double disc releases . And then outta nowhere , Johnny Rotten was back and pissed off and I was ALL IN . I never got to see them live , but it was surreal to be exposed to Green Day/Rancid/Pennywise/NoFX and other skin/NYHC bands , then have this OG maniac show up to fuxking spank everyone haha . Damn this brought back memories man . I’m punching out!
Did Glenn, Jonsey and Cookie get to speak? LOL This is probably edited down, Im sure.
As a wee teenager listening to Bollocks, and X cert Stranglers, brought me into music, to this, cap doth to Hendrix.
The only way johnny works is if no one else is like him. As long as everyone else is more polite, but if someone else was just like him, he'd never be able to deal with that. I do agree with some of what he says and I actually kind of like him as a person.
Absolutely love Johnny and the boys! Legends! ❤❤❤❤
I’ve loved mr John since I was 13 and still do now in my 20s👍 HE DA CHIEFTON!! Love ya John!!
They look really good. Infact I think they are very attractive guys. Johnny still has it and always will 🙂
when Lord Lydon speaks they all listen. there may be 3 other members in the band but they all wanted to hear what John had to say. I could tell Paul was irritated when John jumped when he was trying to speak. it was the John Lydon show that day.
ive grown wide maybe best comeback ever
John Lydon always manages to provoke and get reactions out of people. God bless him
“Louder and Snottier”….Greatest Band Ever….
I would love to John's take on Astros Scandal in the States! It would be brutal!
After this tour, purportedly they were all individually "set for life" financially.
"We invented punk?" LOL! Johnny's ailing memory should be reminded that he cites The Ramones & The NY Dolls as key influences. The Pistols & The Clash were listening to both bands long before any of 'em signed a record deal. The Ramones are still universally regarded as the Fathers Of Punk. That signature time beat in all of 2-minutes or less has become the blueprint for a genre of music known as "punk."
Hey heads up check out an Aussie punk band Radio Birdman that were formed before any true punk band and they sorta had that classic punk Ramones sound but a bit speed up.
Not sure about The Dolls but Johnny definitely doesn't cite The Ramones as an influence. He thinks they were shit.
@@germa9850 More like check out The Saints....If you want to talk about Aussie bands............
And before them lggy
@@gronxman1 So why did he try and get backstage at the first gig they played in London to meet them? He thought they were a legit gang from NYC and thought he had to act tough. They offered him a beer that they had pissed in and he drank it. I'd probably be mad if that happened to me and was common knowledge afterwards. He's a tosser.
John is a dapper chap, looks like he had his hair done up special for the occasion.
Sid wrote Belsen was a gas, both words and music
I saw their reunion show at Red Rocks in Colorado - bad ass.
i see what johny meant when he said the others were not up to it v the press.
Legends forever
damn, Glen forgot to age. Looks great here, looks great today.
No one can deny that this aint amusing
Heh, that doesnt make sense mate. Double negatives and all that...
Ok Prof. George.
asshole
septic tank ^
@@IndependentGeorge76 It actually makes sense, if it was a double negative you would be correct but it is triple negative! (No, deny and ain't.)
Shocking! Johnny did ALL the talking lol
Glens thinking .... I no why I left!!
"You must never get that wrong, Malcolm never ran off with the money. He was too fucking stupid"
I love Johnny Rotten to death
That is actually a dumbass comment
Punk night,tuesdays and thursday at the 100 club
"OY JOHN!!! Have you lost weight"!
JAJAJAJAAA
How to handle a bunch of crap journalists in one easy lesson.
The one easy lesson should have been target practise.
Alongside "how to annoy your coworkers".
@Anderson Cooper Seriously? another view could be "how NOT to act 'mature' nor act 'as we expect you must, at your age' "
Wow, I bet the VIDEO CAMERA used here cost a fortune.. now a cheap mobile phone can produce gorgeous video for NOWT!
Fun fact. At the very same time the pistols played their first last concert at frescos winter gardens. Ted bundy was doing the chi omega killings.
Nightmare Rotten won't shut up his mouth. He won't allow other members to speak. Pain in the ass.
Exato. Ele é uma permanente dor no cu.
They were Johns backing band .. he always was the talking head & wise cracker .. I didn’t see anybody else piping up.
- Do you like Oasis?
- They're just a rock band, y'know.
That's about as much of a compliment you could ever get from Johnny. I bet Liam and Noel are proud of that.
@Sharks man, shut your mouth
Was that Johnny stopping to sign an autograph on his way in?
When you see John, you see where Boris got his image from.
*lol*
His Barnet does resemble bojos lol
Anger+Money is an Energy
I saw the Pistols in 96 at the Aragon ballroom in Chicago. It was great.
I was there too!
It was, wasn't' it?
I saw them in Dallas Texas. Freaking awesome.
Saw them at the Hollywood Palladium! Amazing!
John had a lot to say and rightly so.
Fucking hell what a shambolic press conference.:-D
lookin at john and thinkin this is what boris johnson looks and gets like after a few beers
"I reserve the right to change my mind about anything at anytime"
Prove me Wrong! (or pay me to change it back)
wankers
Don't tell me that wasn't steve's Steptoe reference at beginning
well, one bottom line of true punk is provocation (another is rebellion). this is what they do here. I went to the Filthy Lucre Show in '96, and this now seems like a century ago ...this video in retrospective is a bit dated. I keep on playing their music as it gives me strength in this world that goes down the drain and seems sometime to make no sense at all. As the Ten Years After sang: "I wish I could change it but I do not know how....". Keep rockin' ya' all
Fabio Punk Yup. Now you live in muslim heaven. Bet you didn't see that coming in '96 😂
Max W And a shit hole called England hope you all choke in Muslim heaven. How ironic is that 😊
@@mrmaxaxl What the fuck are you on about?
Brasileiros em geral sempre idolatram a escória.
A sua imagem de perfil é a prova disso.
I sadly was born about a decade & a half too late for all of this but what fascinates me is just how relevant they are today & how little has changed?!! Xx
Brilliant crop a lads!!!
could be wrong....i could be right!
Paul quickly became Microphone Man 🤣😊
*John....bless*
Every few sentences, one has been edited out. Just hopeless.
Lydon looks and dresses like Barney Rubble
Steve and Glen please allow John to get a word in edge ways !
Would have been nice for Steve and Paul (and Glen I suppose) to have spoken... or been heard and left in the edit!
Would have been a miracle! That's never going to happen with supergob in the house!
No, don't you DARE try to get in johns light. Always screaming for bein loudest, in Centre etc and so end
they become a money making machine fair enough they earned it
The Bill Grundy Show PT. 2
He sounds like Pod Clock from the Borrowers.
Hope Jonnie doing a jubilee concert slot! That would be Epic!!!£🙈😜🤣❤️
They shouldve invited Wally Nightingale
He died in 1996
The Johnny Rotten show
The guy who composed the songs on the album Never mind the bollocks is quiet.
sid wasnt there=belsem was a gas
''god save the queen my son!!!!'' lol
He is so much more mature at this time of his life, in the past he would have spat on all the press and walked off by now! lmao He has valid points of the music industry, look at Taylor Swift's fight in 2019 for control of her art...
"We're back... Fat'n'40!"
Rock stars.
First question from the media: "This is sad isn't it?" lol.
Wow we need a sex pistols come back more now then ever the music scene and government need a kicking!!
The only band that really mattered
5.59 Why did u reform?
We have found a common cause and it is your money
MOST HONEST ANSWER EVER
At tge premiere of The filth and the fury Glen said "l don't want to see the film about Johnny rotten
I know. It made me really glad
Steve Jones & Paul Cook are the most talented ones of the band You Guys Rock!
I'd say Glen is pretty talented and John his PiL albums ar awsome.
These two guys had no commercial success in their solo career, frankly speaking
That's a dumb thing to say ... John , Glen , Steve , Paul - 4 great songwriters in a great band , it's called chemistry & that kind of magic does not happen very often .
After being a fan as a kid I was so excited when this happened and remember thinking “Wow doesn’t Steve look old…!”
Now looking at it as a 51 year old myself he doesn’t look so old..!
It was a great year 1996 and that weekend in London the end of June…… Madness, Pistols & the Euros all going on. The Tories only a year away from being ousted…! Britpop…… the UK was buzzing……… 28 years later…….where did it all go wrong…!
It went wrong because of tories being greedy liars
@@prpwnage9296….. that and as we get older we discover most of our Heroes have feet of clay and are happy just to ‘feather their nest’……. At least the Pistols were up front and honest about that. They did call the tour ‘Filthy Lucre’ after all
Still bad arse..great
Jesus Christ, can Lydon not shut up for one minute?! There's 3 others in the band...
The one and only little john
There are few bands that has gotten as much shit for things that doesn't matter like the Sex Pistols
John told him straight. Lol