he didn't get banned for anything. That radio interview where he alluded to Saville was simply never aired. Lydon was on TOTPs the following year with PiL.
He also said we all knew about jimmy Savile BUT WE WEREN'T ALLOWED TO SAY ANYTHING this has been going on for a long time , thank the bribers and blackmailers like Epstein and Maxwell types. We have been lied to for a long time.
@@paulmitchell3131 I really don’t think he sees the irony in what he’s saying FaceTiming from the US. Anybody who’s been away for decades shouldn’t have a say in our democracy what is it to them when they wanted away to become an immigrant of another country.
@@mynewcolour You're not old enough to appreciate what he means but you will be - and you'll look back and understand. (Write that down somewhere and watch how you change your views practically 180° when you're a lot older).
@@cymro6537 Who were often oppressed and kept down by other people who were "Christian, western and white". The misery of many of the poor white people who had to get by without the safety net of state welfare back before the immigration started in the 1950s...
Irish were treated as bad as other immigrants..."NO BLACKS. NO IRISH. NO DOGS."...A common sign in many windows of both commercial and private rental places. Esp in seaside B&Bs!! He was told to BE British & proud coz his parents knew it was their childrens only way out of ignorant discrimination from others! Having a white skin helped too! And btw im speaking frm experience. I like JL but nostalgia tends to put a misty glow over the past unfortunately.
@@theoilandgasresourceportal2132 Is that what you think the reason is? Around 17% of the NHS staff are immigrants. The NHS under performs because its budget has been cut year on year in real terms for almost 15 years. There is a shortage of GPs and nurses all over Britain so evidently there are not enough trained brits to fill these roles. We need people to come to Britain from Europe, Asia etc and bring their expertise.
It's not necessarily the immigrants who have created the animosity. It's the fact that the government have allowed them in in such numbers without any kind of thought about how they can fit in. Same reason that you wouldn't have a party at your house and invite 100 people who you don't know.
That’s the truth. We just don’t have enough housing to house U.K citizens, never mind huge amounts of immigrants. That’s not more demonising immigrants as the vast majority of them make a huge contribution to this country, but we don’t have the infrastructure to take in large numbers of people. As for the British seaside, that’s been in decline since Brits realised it’s cheaper to go abroad and you have the added bonus of better weather. It was the package holidays to Spain that started it off in the 1980’s which killed off the holiday season in the United Kingdom.
@@mimitek6140So you think that because John Lydon legally emigrated to the United States, he should then automatically be in favour of open borders; interesting.
@@jamesjackson2647And so do the overwhelming majority of the non-indigenous population in the UK. But let’s not let facts get in the way of our bigotry, eh?
"prospective immigrants" did not ruin the "seaside towns" its dirt cheap international flights (mainly to the mediterranean) and higher wages. UK seaside towns cant compete with hot/sunny mediterranean weather and beaches.
@@SotiCoto many can't, but rest assured there are a growing number at the top who are 'doing alright thank-you'. It's them that should be paying more tax to ease the burden. But that's not what the Tories are about. And the Labour party probably won't even things out much either. With austerity, Covid & then Brexit Britain will continue to fail.... Electoral reform would at least protect democratic principles a little.
He was an immigrant, his parents left southern Ireland to come to London and his wife was born in Germany before she moved to London... And Johnny now lives in the USA! So he is an immigrant there! (I suppose he has now started carrying or collecting guns now he's in the US, in order to fit into the US MAGA NRA 2nd Amendment gun culture...) BTW, Johnny, Cheap flights and cheap hols abroad killed the UK seaside holiday towns. Working class could now go to Spain and Greece etc on cheap package hols, so it was the working class taking advantage of cheap hols abroad that killed the UK seaside holiday.
His parents went through a LEGAL process, hoops will have been jumped through, for his family to live here, with references, background checks. Oh yeah, Ireland is the country next door to England... The situation John is talking about is entirely different, turning up, anonymously, from goodness knows where, being as they have travelled through at least 5 safe countries to get here... They are coming from "war torn" countries and paying Thousands of pounds to get on dinghys... Where, from these war torn countries, that are so economically deprived, are they getting thousands of pounds from to get on a dinghy? Think it through...
@@eleanorwalmsley635"His parents went through a LEGAL process, hoops will have been jumped through, for his family to live here, with references, background checks." Tosh. You might want to look at the law concerning Ireland. An Irish citizen can stand as an MP in the UK without any hoops to jump through.
He isnt lying, he isn't exaggerating, he isn't being disingenuous, he isnt being hypocritical as some are trying to weakly argue with his Irish parentage etc. Anybody with an ounce of sense simply cannot soundly debunk his honest observations
You never leave the mentality though mate. I am not defined as working class....however, in my head and heart I still feel like I am despite what I may have acquired over the years.
@@DrunkDelilahBreweryDutch man here living in the UK. Never understood that class awareness. Obviously plain for all to see, but the UK is pretty unique in this matter. Can you explain?
He’s no more working class than I’m a member of the Danish royal family. Complains about immigration to the UK. Yet is an immigrant to the USA and has tri citizenship
I think the connection that he feels to working class is about parroting what they (some not all) believe in. He probably feels if he echos those sentiments he'll remain closer to their ethos and be continually welcomed as one. Regardless of the fact he's living in LA with no concerns for money. If you go to my home town, or other largely council housed towns, these are the type of concerns they have, in my opinion as a result of media consumed and prejudices held, that aren't challenged. It's nonsense really and proves as an artist and person he's not really matured or developed an informed view on the world. Despite likely travelling a lot and meeting more walks of life, than most in his position 50 years ago would have. Interesting he blames the EU for the state of high streets and job markets outside of London. Can't see the connection to that assertion.
I love John Lyon. Not scared to speak his mind and he speaks his truth. Much love from a Welshman living in America for 20+ years. He resonates with me ❤
Like clueless sheep, they think what the government wants them to think, deflection of the highest order, I'm surprised at Johnny lost all respect for him the last few years, shame
Great interview! I totally relate and agree with a lot of things John is saying. A very wise man. Going to the meet and greet and am really looking forward to it. Dream come true for me as I am big fan of John's.
@@stephenmurray2851 If he hates the EU so much why would he want to remain an EU citizen when he can fall back on his proud British citizenship free of "EU interference." Unless he's a total hypocrite of course!
@@paulmorrison3263 He isn't an EU citizen. He has an Irish passport. So you are saying Irish people can only live in Ireland if they submit to a globalist political anti democratic bloc.? Wow you really are totalitarian aren't you. But I thought the EU was only a trading bloc and not political? And I thought it was the big bad far right that tries to stop people from moving to other countries? What about the millions of Irish people who despise the EU. Should they be dragged from their houses and forced out of the country? Why can't you be against the EU and be Irish? Who are you to dictate? By that same logic all the British who voted to remain in the EU should they leave now we've had brexit? Or are you a hypocrite on that too
Interesting that he believes Brexit is the right thing when UK musicians can't go and tour EU countries, unless they are already massive and rich. Also, the other way around, many musicians from EU countries have decided that it is no longer worth it to tour in the UK.
@@paulgibbons2320 the vast majority musicians don't have record labels. If Lydon started out now he'd have to put up vast sums of money to tour EU countries. It's incredibly hard for UK bands to tour.
You mean the GBNews which is gaslighting everyone into believing they are the anti-establishment and anti-woke voice of free speech when they maurade on the established and acceptable standard television channels? Wake up to them and wake up to what's going on outside your ivory tower.
@@phil2544Go take a walk around Sunderland. Ask yourself. Did this City benefit from 40+ Years of EU membership. Swing by Whitley Bay and Gates head if your still unsure kid.
@@steik6414I had a look just out of interest. They only divulge the amount of money spent per country. England,Ireland Scotland and Wales presumably to stop entire cities saying what do we get for our money. Either that or they don't actually have the figures. Which is concerning. So the answer is no. I don't have the figures because they don't divulge it. So my evidence is the only valid measure we have. Each of the cities have one flagship EU project. Sunderlands being a Japanese car manufacturer. If that even counts as investment in the UK lol
I love John because it doesn't matter what the presumed opinion is supposed to be, he is not afraid to be direct and to be honest and to speak as he finds things without feeling the need to be "politically correct". John was being healthily politically incorrect before many of us were out of our shorts but he's very honest and very objective in his subjectivity I think.
@@808MATE8because he’s complaint about immigration, and them not integrating, when he’s the son of Irish immigrants who tended to stick to their own in the 60s and 70s.
He's complaining about the scale of immigration and where it's from. No English person has any problem with British and Irish people immigrating here. They share a common culture, language, history and values, and are from the same genetic stock. Comparing them to people from Africa and the Middle East is absurd. @@warrencrawfordart
The Irish immigration into England has been largely very positive though. After overcoming prejudice, most assimilated well and made a huge contribution to British society. From the Beatles, to the building of the Underground, to the backbone of the NHS, the Irish integration into England is rightly regarded as a success story. Now, Englands into Ireland is another matter..
I love all the Pistols for what they done for British music, and the fact they wrote one of the greatest albums of all time, but Lydon is the one Pistol who is still truly a man of the people and still lives his life true to the words he wrote. The man is a national treasure.
John was right about Jimmy Savile but no one listened, will they listen to him now about immigration ? I doubt it, however he is correct in what he's saying.
I live in an area that over the past 2 years has become majority African & Asian. Barely any English people are left here. Maybe letting more people settle in the country than are born here wasn’t a great idea as none of them integrate in any way, they have no need to because we have so many foreigners.
That's the sad thing he had a lesser known, but arguably more impressive career, on the alternative underground with Public Image. More experimental less commercial but artistically highly regarded. He seems to be determined to get everyone who ever admired him to loathe him recently though.
It’s encouraging so many comments are so supportive of what he said. The level of anger and division we see in this country as a result of so much immigration is a disgrace.
It was the police that drove John out of the UK back then, if he's stayed they would have set him up and nicked him. As usual Liddy tells it how it is. Keep on going John, best wishes and respect.
It really wasn't, Nora made him move so she could avoid paying capital gains tax on her investments and paying corporation tax on her property development business.
He was an immigrant, his parents left southern Ireland to come to London and his wife was born in Germany before she moved to London... And Johnny now lives in the USA! So he is an immigrant there! (I suppose he has now started carrying or collecting guns now he's in the US, in order to fit into the US MAGA NRA 2nd Amendment gun culture...) BTW, Johnny, Cheap flights and cheap hols abroad killed the UK seaside holiday towns. Working class could now go to Spain and Greece etc on cheap package hols, so it was the working class taking advantage of cheap hols abroad that killed the UK seaside holiday.
One Johnny Lydon is worth more than any number of the careerist crawling virtue signalling Marr type. A genuine and decent man, who really loved and cared for his wife.
@@jaybird1731 The American working class obviously like Trump’s America first policy. It’s the same all over the western world, the working class see the nation state as their best protection against globalism/neoliberalism. John Lydon is obviously sympathetic to the concerns of the class from which he came.
@@davidpryle3935 the working class aren't a non-thinking group of conformist thinking, the fact you categorise millions of people to be one sheepish collection of gullible fools is insulting to working class people.
This is a man who grew up in a UK that still openly declared "no blacks, no dogs, no Irish". You'd think that would make him more aware of how xenophobia is wielded against people with the least power.
While there was undoubtedly discriminatory signs, particularly against people from the sub-continent and the Caribbean, that particular sign “No blacks no dogs no Irish” is largely a myth.
Leicester has now become the first British city ever to have an Asian majority population, Leicester mayor Peter Soulsby who's white said, he's very pleased and so proud of the citys diversity, the Asian population of Leicester is now at 44%% whereas the white British indigenous population is just 31%, it can't be called an English city anymore, it's now Britains first ever Asian city with a few more major English cities not far behind who soon will also be Asianized.
@@TheJekyllAndHydeShow people arriving in the UK aren't illegal, by definition, until they have been processed. Unfortunately this nonsense government has closed down almost all that processing.
Lydon always speaks his mind and doesn't just say what people want to hear. Sometimes he's right and sometimes he's wrong. I have to agree with him on immigration. This country has benefitted in the past with immigrants from the Commonwealth and elsewhere having a positive impact on the nation. However the failure of the government to reduce illegal immigration or control overall immigration numbers has turned it from a positive to a negative thing. It gives ammunition to extremists to stir up trouble, costs the taxpayer when the country is already heavily in debt, puts further strain on underfunded local councils, the NHS, schools, and social services, whilst adding to the housing crisis, and causes friction with locals in some areas. Many seaside resorts have been struggling for decades as people went on package holidays to escape Britain's wet and overcast summers but this could be the final nail in the coffin for some.
British seaside towns have largely been in decline for decades. Working class money pits for a few weeks of the year and then deserted with minimal jobs and zero investment. The ones that aren’t are those which have adapted to a more genteel style and developed more affluent and foodie venues. It’s a simple example of quality and choice. But even the affluent locations struggle out of season as holiday homes owners and renters pack up and go back to the cities. Its wealth progression not immigrants
You people say he doesn't know where he comes from, he does the same place as myself the Six Acres estate Finsbury park north London , the flats and area are a total no go area now a disgrace a karzi, now stop lying to your selves and shame the devil tell the truth
Yawn...no go area eh? Yeah all the 4 star hotels around it make it really seem like a warzone down there...and of course the Dance studio and Park Theatre...you know you're in the Ghetto when they're playing Greased lightning in the park threatre...Tw@
🎶 I AM AN ANTICHRIST...I AM A CONSERVATIVE..! 🎶 Johnny Rotten in the 70s: brilliant! Johnny Rotten today: a thundering pillock. Go and stand with Morrissey, John...in both of your comfortable homes in LA.
@acrodave9287 sounds like sour grapes to me Morrissey and Lydon are both working class lads that made a lot of money and escaped the UK ......i did too 20 years ago and never looked back....and you would if you had the opportunity. It has become Europe's dumpster.
As a long term fan of John's I'm disappointed by this. Firstly; he doesn't live here any more and hasn't for decades and secondly, it isn't the immigrants who have caused division but he politicians and media pumping out inflammatory rhetoric about hem. The Tories have never provided a proper safe route for asylum seekers and we need to look at our part in creating the bloodshed and chaos in many of the countries they are fleeing from.
@@neilgroves534 And me. This 'everyone thinks the same as me' idea is a fallacy. Just look at politcs; no matter how passionate you are about your 'side' of an argument, there's usually a fair contingent of the population who feel the opposite. So what's the answer? Maybe it's that the really interesting 'truth' happens in the middle...and neither of the polar extremes are right?
This man always has his finger on the pulse of truth and he never holds back, even if his truths can be spoken in tongues at times, never doubt this man's honour and integrity. Rock on, Rotton ♡
There's no flies on John. He's a working class lad and knows what it's like to be skint. Like the rest of us, he is witnessing the U.K going down the pan.
He looks and sounds like Jim Davidson.. Punk wasn’t a Revolution, it was a fad. After just 5 years the bin liners where out and the New Romantics where in. And the dinosaurs had remained.
@@dougnico2492 All forms of 70’s music is still going. Not all of today’s kids like Taylor Swift. They visit grandad , and he plays his music. They say why can’t we have music like that? In 50 years time will any kid say that about Taylor Swift?
@@christophercurtis2893 But what has bussinesses shutting and areas becoming full of retail parks got to do with the EU? Thatcher was far more responsible.
Nothing wrong with that. For one he isn't illegal. Two he pays tax. Three he has a job. Four he hasn't got a dangerous religious ideology. Five he isn't exactly a threat to their culture. Unlike all the illegal immigrants that shouldn't be in our country.
@@johnpullen3729The sell outs are the politicians and MSM who continue soldering on with the false narrative that mass immigration and diversity are positives...
Nobody in the UK understands it anyway. The EU supports local projects in the member states with money. The projects themselves are designed and planned by local institutions (or by transnational consortia). The EU checks whether the projects comply with the European framework. If yes, then payment is made. Means that the EU does not plan or even want to have shopping centers in Birmingham.
@@Peter-q8v6vwhat do you think, “Ross?” Side note, I have read numerous articles about the troll farms in St. Petersburg training on UA-cam. This, the reason you see so many “user-Hahahah19xuj” type of names. What say you, “Ross?” Nyet? Or Da?
@@manufacturedconsent7850 Point being, nobody else deliberately and publicly set themselves up as "alternative" or "revolutionary" when they were younger, only to demonstrate their hypocrisy later. That's the trouble with loudmouth revolutionaries.
@@RichardMcHale-i6m It's called life. You'd have had a very sheltered and uninformed one if you still believe at 68 yrsold what you did at 23. And to have the same lifestyle would be impossible.
@@manufacturedconsent7850 The trick is not to make a public show of it for only self-publicity's sake, to publicly huff and puff about it in order to be noticed.
I come from an Irish back ground. I was born in Scotland and never felt welcome because of my background and that was back in my teens. Johnny is correct though about the state of our country.
There's not enough room and not enough houses. It don't matter what country they come from if there isn't enough room then there isn't enough room. He should have said that.
John Lydon is of Irish parentage. His father was from Galway. He was called Paddy by his workmates. Sometimes, Paddy is not a friendly address. As an immigrants son, he should know better.
He didn't expose Savile, he hinted at Savile's "seediness" and added that he'd heard rumours, without specifying what those rumours were. Even if they contained a grain of truth, hearing rumours isn't the same as having concrete evidence.
John's brilliant, he always speaks his mind articulately, always has interesting things to say, even if you don't always agree with him! They don't make them like him any more!
He was the only one that pointed out what Saville was up to and he got a Ban from that , respect to him
YAWN! ZZZzzz
he didn't get banned for anything. That radio interview where he alluded to Saville was simply never aired. Lydon was on TOTPs the following year with PiL.
and Icke
Lydon was never banned by the BBC, where does this myth come from
@@rafflesxyz4800Defending them then aye?? 💤💤💤💤🫠
"Ever get the feeling you've been cheated?"
Brilliant 👏🏼
Amen
Absofuckinglutely!!
He also said we all knew about jimmy Savile BUT WE WEREN'T ALLOWED TO SAY ANYTHING this has been going on for a long time , thank the bribers and blackmailers like Epstein and Maxwell types. We have been lied to for a long time.
Oh aye, yes!
John is just telling the truth
I admire John Lydon immensely. He is a decent man and tells the truth.
He is 100% right about Britain, well said John👍
I wonder what L.A is like these days.
Strange isn’t it how he talks about immigration then lives in the States. It’s a strange world we live in.
Utter farce
But British and American Culture is compatible as we share a common language and morals. Someone from Syria or gaza won't be as compatible.
Maybe that’s why he left? Or maybe why he’ll come back?
There are different kinds of immigration. John is a benefit to America, grooming gangs and jihadis are not a benefit to Britain.
@@paulmitchell3131 I really don’t think he sees the irony in what he’s saying FaceTiming from the US. Anybody who’s been away for decades shouldn’t have a say in our democracy what is it to them when they wanted away to become an immigrant of another country.
John is spot on not afraid to say it either. Legend 👏
Stop the islamafaction of the UK. Johnny has been right about alot of things, like Savile.
🥱
The what?
Grow a brain.
Savile wasn't right, he was a wrong'un.
@@mynewcolour You're not old enough to appreciate what he means but you will be - and you'll look back and understand. (Write that down somewhere and watch how you change your views practically 180° when you're a lot older).
@@paulcaney6284 Must be a Savile fan🤔 Well tell us Paul Caney, are you?!
“Working class people throwing sand at each other.” Different times, great days.
I was telling my missus this the other day. Along came the package holiday and all seaside towns started to die. Blackpool now is so bad.
4:34 The 'difference'being is that they were Christian, western and white.
@@cymro6537 got nothing to do with colour, why would you even bring that up ? Its culture, always culture.
@@cymro6537 Who were often oppressed and kept down by other people who were "Christian, western and white". The misery of many of the poor white people who had to get by without the safety net of state welfare back before the immigration started in the 1950s...
Irish were treated as bad as other immigrants..."NO BLACKS. NO IRISH. NO DOGS."...A common sign in many windows of both commercial and private rental places. Esp in seaside B&Bs!!
He was told to BE British & proud coz his parents knew it was their childrens only way out of ignorant discrimination from others! Having a white skin helped too!
And btw im speaking frm experience.
I like JL but nostalgia tends to put a misty glow over the past unfortunately.
John loves the UK so much he lives in LA. Deepest sympathy on his loss.
You can do both bot user.
@@T0mat0S0up The double immigrant hates on other immigrants---they just won't tell you which specific immigrants they hate....
He's hoping Trump will come back 😅
@@T0mat0S0up You don't think there's even the slightest contradiction?
It’s a lost cause.
He is correct
Read a book
He really isn't. Immigrants are essential to the NHS.
@@user-he8qx5nv7y is that why it consistently under performs
@@theoilandgasresourceportal2132 Is that what you think the reason is? Around 17% of the NHS staff are immigrants. The NHS under performs because its budget has been cut year on year in real terms for almost 15 years. There is a shortage of GPs and nurses all over Britain so evidently there are not enough trained brits to fill these roles. We need people to come to Britain from Europe, Asia etc and bring their expertise.
@@user-he8qx5nv7y stealing workers from developing nations very neo-colonialist and wrong
He's absolutely bang on the money and boy is it lovely to hear
He's absolutely correct...
Lydon simply speaks the truth
Just his opinion.
It's not necessarily the immigrants who have created the animosity. It's the fact that the government have allowed them in in such numbers without any kind of thought about how they can fit in. Same reason that you wouldn't have a party at your house and invite 100 people who you don't know.
That’s the truth. We just don’t have enough housing to house U.K citizens, never mind huge amounts of immigrants. That’s not more demonising immigrants as the vast majority of them make a huge contribution to this country, but we don’t have the infrastructure to take in large numbers of people. As for the British seaside, that’s been in decline since Brits realised it’s cheaper to go abroad and you have the added bonus of better weather. It was the package holidays to Spain that started it off in the 1980’s which killed off the holiday season in the United Kingdom.
Because they didn’t invest in a proper asylum system fit for purpose , the system is broken
@@sallystrutt6715 they haven't invested in any system for for any thing to be fair.
@@IainFrame exactly controlled immigration because whether you like it or not we need immigration
@@sallystrutt6715 Agreed. A level of immigration is almost always required. Depends on demand.
Well done John. He is expressing what most English working class people think about their country and their communities when it comes to immigration.
😂😂 why is he in Living in America as immigrant?
@@mimitek6140So you think that because John Lydon legally emigrated to the United States, he should then automatically be in favour of open borders; interesting.
@@jamesjackson2647And so do the overwhelming majority of the non-indigenous population in the UK. But let’s not let facts get in the way of our bigotry, eh?
"prospective immigrants" did not ruin the "seaside towns" its dirt cheap international flights (mainly to the mediterranean) and higher wages. UK seaside towns cant compete with hot/sunny mediterranean weather and beaches.
Higher wages for whom? People can barely afford to even survive these days, much less pay for plane flights.
Ironically, it was immigrants that ruined the European Mediterranean cities.
@@SotiCoto many can't, but rest assured there are a growing number at the top who are 'doing alright thank-you'. It's them that should be paying more tax to ease the burden.
But that's not what the Tories are about. And the Labour party probably won't even things out much either.
With austerity, Covid & then Brexit Britain will continue to fail.... Electoral reform would at least protect democratic principles a little.
@@SotiCoto The majority of the population has so much money, they dont know what to buy next - or where to fly off to ffs.
You’re being delusional.
He was an immigrant, his parents left southern Ireland to come to London and his wife was born in Germany before she moved to London... And Johnny now lives in the USA! So he is an immigrant there! (I suppose he has now started carrying or collecting guns now he's in the US, in order to fit into the US MAGA NRA 2nd Amendment gun culture...) BTW, Johnny, Cheap flights and cheap hols abroad killed the UK seaside holiday towns. Working class could now go to Spain and Greece etc on cheap package hols, so it was the working class taking advantage of cheap hols abroad that killed the UK seaside holiday.
So you are saying that Irish immigrants have the same beliefs and work ethics as Somali, Ethiopian, Sudan and Afghan refugees. You are sadly wrong.
@@davis7099 but he's an immigrant complaining about immigrants. Does that honestly not seem a bit ironic to you?
His parents went through a LEGAL process, hoops will have been jumped through, for his family to live here, with references, background checks.
Oh yeah, Ireland is the country next door to England...
The situation John is talking about is entirely different, turning up, anonymously, from goodness knows where, being as they have travelled through at least 5 safe countries to get here... They are coming from "war torn" countries and paying Thousands of pounds to get on dinghys... Where, from these war torn countries, that are so economically deprived, are they getting thousands of pounds from to get on a dinghy?
Think it through...
@@eleanorwalmsley635"His parents went through a LEGAL process, hoops will have been jumped through, for his family to live here, with references, background checks."
Tosh. You might want to look at the law concerning Ireland. An Irish citizen can stand as an MP in the UK without any hoops to jump through.
@@Weejie2011 OK...
If you think so, back in the 50s...it was an entirely different world back then.
He isnt lying, he isn't exaggerating, he isn't being disingenuous, he isnt being hypocritical as some are trying to weakly argue with his Irish parentage etc. Anybody with an ounce of sense simply cannot soundly debunk his honest observations
The man always speaks the truth thank you John
Well said johnny Rotten!
Multi millionaire with 3 passports, lives in LA, says he’s a member of the British working class 🤔
You never leave the mentality though mate. I am not defined as working class....however, in my head and heart I still feel like I am despite what I may have acquired over the years.
Yeah, working class is a culture, not an amount of money
@@DrunkDelilahBreweryDutch man here living in the UK. Never understood that class awareness. Obviously plain for all to see, but the UK is pretty unique in this matter. Can you explain?
He’s no more working class than I’m a member of the Danish royal family. Complains about immigration to the UK. Yet is an immigrant to the USA and has tri citizenship
I think the connection that he feels to working class is about parroting what they (some not all) believe in. He probably feels if he echos those sentiments he'll remain closer to their ethos and be continually welcomed as one. Regardless of the fact he's living in LA with no concerns for money.
If you go to my home town, or other largely council housed towns, these are the type of concerns they have, in my opinion as a result of media consumed and prejudices held, that aren't challenged.
It's nonsense really and proves as an artist and person he's not really matured or developed an informed view on the world. Despite likely travelling a lot and meeting more walks of life, than most in his position 50 years ago would have.
Interesting he blames the EU for the state of high streets and job markets outside of London. Can't see the connection to that assertion.
I love John Lyon.
Not scared to speak his mind and he speaks his truth.
Much love from a Welshman living in America for 20+ years.
He resonates with me ❤
Of course its got nothing to do with lack of investment in these places and communities by the tory government.
Like clueless sheep, they think what the government wants them to think, deflection of the highest order, I'm surprised at Johnny lost all respect for him the last few years, shame
Well said John, people and the media don’t like straight talking.
Everything he says i agree with. Top man and once ago he gets all the middle class trendies all worked up!
The real, earlier and bigger reason for economic decline in English seaside resorts is the growth in foreign mass package holiday tourism.
Exactly
True. Cheaper to go abroad and it was more likely to be much better weather than a holiday in the U.K.
I don’t want a holiday in the sun
Hear, hear..
losing benny hill ruined england
I m not british and I don't live in U.K but John is right ,you have to adapt ,otherwise stay in your country
I love when people move to another country because they’re concerned about people moving to their country.
You're just jealous because you want to leave this sinking ship called 'GREAT' Britain....but can't/won't.
😂 ,The Clash forever.
John is no terrorist.
He is not wrong tho , so kind of irrelevant.
@@mjh5437 he’s the anchor butter anarchist
Great interview! I totally relate and agree with a lot of things John is saying. A very wise man. Going to the meet and greet and am really looking forward to it. Dream come true for me as I am big fan of John's.
Love Johnny ❤ Johnny for prime minister ❤
Boring
He's so right.
Interestingly he is still an EU citizen as he has Irish citizenship!!!! Wonder when he'll renounce his Irish passport!!!
Why does he need to renounce his Irish passport?
@@stephenmurray2851 He's so anti-EU that's why
@@paulmorrison3263 and? Why does that mean he shouldn't carry an Irish passport?
@@stephenmurray2851 If he hates the EU so much why would he want to remain an EU citizen when he can fall back on his proud British citizenship free of "EU interference." Unless he's a total hypocrite of course!
@@paulmorrison3263 He isn't an EU citizen. He has an Irish passport. So you are saying Irish people can only live in Ireland if they submit to a globalist political anti democratic bloc.? Wow you really are totalitarian aren't you. But I thought the EU was only a trading bloc and not political? And I thought it was the big bad far right that tries to stop people from moving to other countries? What about the millions of Irish people who despise the EU. Should they be dragged from their houses and forced out of the country? Why can't you be against the EU and be Irish? Who are you to dictate? By that same logic all the British who voted to remain in the EU should they leave now we've had brexit? Or are you a hypocrite on that too
Interesting that he believes Brexit is the right thing when UK musicians can't go and tour EU countries, unless they are already massive and rich. Also, the other way around, many musicians from EU countries have decided that it is no longer worth it to tour in the UK.
Didn't stop the Beatles going to Hamburg.
@@Brez6645?
If there is money to be made the record labels will send them. Tour the UK. Earn your stripes. Johnny Rotten did.
@@paulgibbons2320record labels? Are you still in the 70s ?
@@paulgibbons2320 the vast majority musicians don't have record labels. If Lydon started out now he'd have to put up vast sums of money to tour EU countries. It's incredibly hard for UK bands to tour.
I think he's passed his audition for GB News
I think you just passed your audition for being a plank.
Yeah, they don' t tell the truth on the BBC.
@@sijcalv no, that's a fact, perhaps we'll see him there soon, or on TalkTV.
Someone is talking common sense.
You mean the GBNews which is gaslighting everyone into believing they are the anti-establishment and anti-woke voice of free speech when they maurade on the established and acceptable standard television channels? Wake up to them and wake up to what's going on outside your ivory tower.
Not sure what he thinks the EU have dictated to the people of Sunderland.
more than you could possibly imagine.
@@paulgibbons2320got any examples?
@@phil2544Go take a walk around Sunderland. Ask yourself. Did this City benefit from 40+ Years of EU membership. Swing by Whitley Bay and Gates head if your still unsure kid.
@@paulgibbons2320 So that's a "no" then
@@steik6414I had a look just out of interest. They only divulge the amount of money spent per country. England,Ireland Scotland and Wales presumably to stop entire cities saying what do we get for our money. Either that or they don't actually have the figures. Which is concerning. So the answer is no. I don't have the figures because they don't divulge it. So my evidence is the only valid measure we have. Each of the cities have one flagship EU project.
Sunderlands being a Japanese car manufacturer. If that even counts as investment in the UK lol
Lydon isnt right wing , he's just right.
well said
John is totally correct has been for years 😊😊😊😊
His old mucker Jah Wobble wouldn't think so.
He is so right
Serious question to LBC. Why? Just WHY?
@@davis7099 Yes. But it says quite a lot in who you choose to discuss them with...
They could not get Taylor swift 😊
Isn't it awful hearing from people with different views
@@BennyTheBall8899 it depends on the person, the views and the way they are expressed
@@Wiltz12
It depends on the views? Did you really just say that in response to someone pointing out that other views should be listened to?
John is Bang on just as He has been about many things over the years!👍
He talks a lot of sense!
I love John because it doesn't matter what the presumed opinion is supposed to be, he is not afraid to be direct and to be honest and to speak as he finds things without feeling the need to be "politically correct". John was being healthily politically incorrect before many of us were out of our shorts but he's very honest and very objective in his subjectivity I think.
It's probably time for this man to enter parliament , some one working class, caring and of course honest.
What a man. Respect!
He’s right!
Well said John 100% correct he’s always told the truth remember Saville speaking facts now
Bit rich from a man who's first autobiography 'No Irish, No Black's, No Dogs' reflected on the abuse from being child of Irish immigrants......
💯
Why is it rich?
@@808MATE8because he’s complaint about immigration, and them not integrating, when he’s the son of Irish immigrants who tended to stick to their own in the 60s and 70s.
He's complaining about the scale of immigration and where it's from.
No English person has any problem with British and Irish people immigrating here. They share a common culture, language, history and values, and are from the same genetic stock. Comparing them to people from Africa and the Middle East is absurd. @@warrencrawfordart
The Irish immigration into England has been largely very positive though. After overcoming prejudice, most assimilated well and made a huge contribution to British society. From the Beatles, to the building of the Underground, to the backbone of the NHS, the Irish integration into England is rightly regarded as a success story. Now, Englands into Ireland is another matter..
Johnny is right
Why is the truth so controversial????
His points are not the truth they are totally ignorant.
He is right yet again!
I love all the Pistols for what they done for British music, and the fact they wrote one of the greatest albums of all time, but Lydon is the one Pistol who is still truly a man of the people and still lives his life true to the words he wrote. The man is a national treasure.
John was right about Jimmy Savile but no one listened, will they listen to him now about immigration ? I doubt it, however he is correct in what he's saying.
I live in an area that over the past 2 years has become majority African & Asian. Barely any English people are left here. Maybe letting more people settle in the country than are born here wasn’t a great idea as none of them integrate in any way, they have no need to because we have so many foreigners.
He was exciting for about 10 minutes in 1977. Been a burke ever since, go back to LA.
That's the sad thing he had a lesser known, but arguably more impressive career, on the alternative underground with Public Image. More experimental less commercial but artistically highly regarded. He seems to be determined to get everyone who ever admired him to loathe him recently though.
Metal Box 1979 is amazing. He certainly wasn't a 1977 one trick pony.
Says the person who can`t even spell the word Berk lolololol
@@mjh5437Don't say LOL!
Hey... i resent that.The Burke family are nice people
He's right.
It’s encouraging so many comments are so supportive of what he said. The level of anger and division we see in this country as a result of so much immigration is a disgrace.
It was the police that drove John out of the UK back then, if he's stayed they would have set him up and nicked him. As usual Liddy tells it how it is. Keep on going John, best wishes and respect.
It really wasn't, Nora made him move so she could avoid paying capital gains tax on her investments and paying corporation tax on her property development business.
@@geezertechhead Thanx Geezer, I didn't know that but do now! Still, crossing the Pond did relieve John of those early morning UK busts.
@@dangreen2549he should return to Britain or go be Trump’s orange house boy. The dude is a fake.
John stating that newcomers need to conform with the British norm (whatever that might be) is miles away from what Johnny Rotten used to stand for.
No it’s not. Johnny Rotten was anti establishment not anti Britain
@@mogznwaz He never advocated for conformism though, did he? He certainly didn't conform to any norms.
He was an immigrant, his parents left southern Ireland to come to London and his wife was born in Germany before she moved to London... And Johnny now lives in the USA! So he is an immigrant there! (I suppose he has now started carrying or collecting guns now he's in the US, in order to fit into the US MAGA NRA 2nd Amendment gun culture...) BTW, Johnny, Cheap flights and cheap hols abroad killed the UK seaside holiday towns. Working class could now go to Spain and Greece etc on cheap package hols, so it was the working class taking advantage of cheap hols abroad that killed the UK seaside holiday.
@@mogznwaz so, simping for the establishment is anti-establishment how?
@@davis7099and he is entitled to be seen as a hypocrite.
All the negative views because you don't like his opinion. He's speaking the truth, you just don't like it!!
One Johnny Lydon is worth more than any number of the careerist crawling virtue signalling Marr type.
A genuine and decent man, who really loved and cared for his wife.
really what did marr do to you?
Young John Lydon would hate Old John Lydon.
Yep!
@@davis7099 but mainly "across"
Pretty much every 19 year old ever would hate their older selves. It's almost like people change as they grow older.
But at least he never had a name like "Gary" lololol
@@mjh5437 No me neither. My name isn't Gary 🤡
He's correct........again.
So he lives in the USA, but think brexit is ok.
and trump supporter
Yeah, still working class at heart.
@@davidpryle3935 Why Trump then?
@@jaybird1731 The American working class obviously like Trump’s America first policy.
It’s the same all over the western world, the working class see the nation state as their best protection against globalism/neoliberalism.
John Lydon is obviously sympathetic to the concerns of the class from which he came.
@@davidpryle3935 the working class aren't a non-thinking group of conformist thinking, the fact you categorise millions of people to be one sheepish collection of gullible fools is insulting to working class people.
This is a man who grew up in a UK that still openly declared "no blacks, no dogs, no Irish". You'd think that would make him more aware of how xenophobia is wielded against people with the least power.
@@davis7099 Why is it nonsense?
While there was undoubtedly discriminatory signs, particularly against people from the sub-continent and the Caribbean, that particular sign “No blacks no dogs no Irish” is largely a myth.
Those signs were VERY rarely seen,I grew up in Notting Hill in the 1960s-70s and never ever saw a single one.
@@davidpryle3935 Supposedly. That's another debate. But the phrase obviously resonated enough with Lydon that he named his autobiography after it.
That's an American myth, imported by the unthinking..............In the 20th Century, the Irish were UK citizens, same as NI today, ffs!!
Exactly that!
Well said John, can't wait to see you in June. Bringing my son to your audience with John in Southport
Leicester has now become the first British city ever to have an Asian majority population, Leicester mayor Peter Soulsby who's white said, he's very pleased and so proud of the citys diversity, the Asian population of Leicester is now at 44%% whereas the white British indigenous population is just 31%, it can't be called an English city anymore, it's now Britains first ever Asian city with a few more major English cities not far behind who soon will also be Asianized.
I like Leicester, what's it really matter? Is it harming you? Taking food off your table? It's all in your head
As long as they make rock n roll I don't care
44% is not a majorty.
We allowed it to happen,and it's only gonna get worse
@@paulf2898 Balkinization is the future of England.
So, he's complaining about people moving to the UK for a better life but did exactly the same decades alone. Something rather hypocritical about him.
How much effort does it require for an Irish, English speaking individual to integrate into Britain?
His parents weren't illegal immigrants
@@TheJekyllAndHydeShow people arriving in the UK aren't illegal, by definition, until they have been processed. Unfortunately this nonsense government has closed down almost all that processing.
@@TheJekyllAndHydeShow They spoke English and more than likely Christian so had compatible cultures and belief systems
@@cheesuscrisp-cd7js he's a hypocrite. Taking advantage of being a migrant whilst saying others shouldn't be able to.
Lydon always speaks his mind and doesn't just say what people want to hear. Sometimes he's right and sometimes he's wrong. I have to agree with him on immigration. This country has benefitted in the past with immigrants from the Commonwealth and elsewhere having a positive impact on the nation. However the failure of the government to reduce illegal immigration or control overall immigration numbers has turned it from a positive to a negative thing. It gives ammunition to extremists to stir up trouble, costs the taxpayer when the country is already heavily in debt, puts further strain on underfunded local councils, the NHS, schools, and social services, whilst adding to the housing crisis, and causes friction with locals in some areas. Many seaside resorts have been struggling for decades as people went on package holidays to escape Britain's wet and overcast summers but this could be the final nail in the coffin for some.
Wealth and income inequality is the culprit for all the problems you’ve mentioned here. Nothing to do with immigration.
@@jimmydbags1070 Lazy comment .
@@deedahinkent Lazy rebuttal.
@@jimmydbags1070 👍just saying😉
@@deedahinkent It’s a fact.
Johnny talking sense again👍🏻🧷🔒🥁🎤🎸🇬🇧
British seaside towns have largely been in decline for decades. Working class money pits for a few weeks of the year and then deserted with minimal jobs and zero investment. The ones that aren’t are those which have adapted to a more genteel style and developed more affluent and foodie venues. It’s a simple example of quality and choice. But even the affluent locations struggle out of season as holiday homes owners and renters pack up and go back to the cities. Its wealth progression not immigrants
Y'all should hot-foot it to Budleigh Salterton for a Mr.Whippy cornet and fish and chips along the seafront, d'rec'ly!
Brilliant intelligent man
😂😂😂😂 that made me laugh
You people say he doesn't know where he comes from, he does the same place as myself the Six Acres estate Finsbury park north London , the flats and area are a total no go area now a disgrace a karzi, now stop lying to your selves and shame the devil tell the truth
Yawn...no go area eh? Yeah all the 4 star hotels around it make it really seem like a warzone down there...and of course the Dance studio and Park Theatre...you know you're in the Ghetto when they're playing Greased lightning in the park threatre...Tw@
🎶 I AM AN ANTICHRIST...I AM A CONSERVATIVE..! 🎶
Johnny Rotten in the 70s: brilliant! Johnny Rotten today: a thundering pillock.
Go and stand with Morrissey, John...in both of your comfortable homes in LA.
Morrissey rules
They are both a wee bit too honest about the current era for the likes of you
@@jeffsimon9594If you think Lydon or Morrissey are 'honest', I've got the Email of a Nigerian Prince who'd like to hear from you.
@acrodave9287 sounds like sour grapes to me Morrissey and Lydon are both working class lads that made a lot of money and escaped the UK ......i did too 20 years ago and never looked back....and you would if you had the opportunity. It has become Europe's dumpster.
John and Morrissey speak for themselves not along leftie right on lines, unlike you.
As a long term fan of John's I'm disappointed by this. Firstly; he doesn't live here any more and hasn't for decades and secondly, it isn't the immigrants who have caused division but he politicians and media pumping out inflammatory rhetoric about hem. The Tories have never provided a proper safe route for asylum seekers and we need to look at our part in creating the bloodshed and chaos in many of the countries they are fleeing from.
John is just saying what every other Brit is thinking.
Every other Brit? What a ridiculous claim to make.
@@coleuk8817 Obviously, apart from the lefties who still cannot / will not see the problems that mass immigration is causing.
@@coleuk8817well....apart from you then.
@coleuk8817 it ain't that ridiculous pal cause majority of them do
@@neilgroves534
And me.
This 'everyone thinks the same as me' idea is a fallacy. Just look at politcs; no matter how passionate you are about your 'side' of an argument, there's usually a fair contingent of the population who feel the opposite.
So what's the answer? Maybe it's that the really interesting 'truth' happens in the middle...and neither of the polar extremes are right?
He is spot on.
About what?
This man always has his finger on the pulse of truth and he never holds back, even if his truths can be spoken in tongues at times, never doubt this man's honour and integrity. Rock on, Rotton ♡
There's no flies on John. He's a working class lad and knows what it's like to be skint. Like the rest of us, he is witnessing the U.K going down the pan.
Yes since brexit the economic depression has been very difficult the uk. Hmm I wonder what rich expat living in America supported that.
John your a star. A real rough diamond & loved by us as a REAL figurehead
Love, Lydon.A true,working-class(genius) hero.
A very smart and decent man, Johnny we love you baby ❤
He's dead right well Jonny a true Brit ❤ and respect from Ireland
🇬🇧 🤝 🇮🇪. Nice comment to see. All the best to you as well
He looks and sounds like Jim Davidson..
Punk wasn’t a Revolution, it was a fad.
After just 5 years the bin liners where out and the New Romantics where in.
And the dinosaurs had remained.
Punk is still going strong buddy, and tbf the pistols are about as punk as new kids on the block, manufactured punk boy band
@@dougnico2492 All forms of 70’s music is still going. Not all of today’s kids like Taylor Swift.
They visit grandad , and he plays his music. They say why can’t we have music like that?
In 50 years time will any kid say that about Taylor Swift?
He comes from Finsbury Park. Go and look at the area now, then comment
@@christophercurtis2893 But what has bussinesses shutting and areas becoming full of retail parks got to do with the EU?
Thatcher was far more responsible.
He was just an idea of Malcolm McLaren, not an original, just a directed performer like many boy bands and artist’s he created.
Using Ireland as a comparison with different continents is embarrassing Andrew marr has just shamed his family tree
I thought exactly that .Desperate comment by Andrew Marr .
I have no shame in expressing how much I love this man.
Remarkable a man who immigrated to USA and complains about immigrations and then he blames the EU 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Nothing wrong with that.
For one he isn't illegal.
Two he pays tax.
Three he has a job.
Four he hasn't got a dangerous religious ideology.
Five he isn't exactly a threat to their culture.
Unlike all the illegal immigrants that shouldn't be in our country.
@@steve10I see they've duped you then...
@@django3422who's "they"?
Shame on him. Sell out..
@@johnpullen3729The sell outs are the politicians and MSM who continue soldering on with the false narrative that mass immigration and diversity are positives...
Johnny Rotten would despise John Lydon.
Don't know how to break this to you, but it's the same guy.
Johnny Rotten just got older.
@@jeffsimon9594you've missed the point then.
you meant syd vicious surely
I disagree, Holidays in the Sun is anti communist.
Nobody in the UK understands it anyway. The EU supports local projects in the member states with money. The projects themselves are designed and planned by local institutions (or by transnational consortia). The EU checks whether the projects comply with the European framework. If yes, then payment is made. Means that the EU does not plan or even want to have shopping centers in Birmingham.
The money comes from where?
@@Brez6645 the EU provides the money (or did before Brexit) but it’s local councils and other bodies that decided what the projects actually are.
@@Brez6645Muggins
@@tzaph67 Where does the EU (Brussels) get the money from?
As opposed to the tories who would give money for what exactly?
We need more people in Parliament like Johnny.
A shame he chose not to try getting involved in politics and do something constructive, rather than peddling forced opinions and light entertainment
The people who listen to LBC have never understood why people voted to leave the EU.
Why did they vote?
@@jimmyfusion-c7b why do you think? And think of this in the context that you've had 7 and a half years to genuinely ask someone.
@@jimmyfusion-c7b They thought Africa and Pakistan had freedom of movement.
@@Peter-q8v6vwhat do you think, “Ross?” Side note, I have read numerous articles about the troll farms in St. Petersburg training on UA-cam. This, the reason you see so many “user-Hahahah19xuj” type of names. What say you, “Ross?” Nyet? Or Da?
which is why John went on it. He will upset the right people to make them 'think'
Three words: Country Life Butter
Proper rebel is our John. Anarchy in the UK , eh?
Minus the "... ry life butter"
Lets see you at 68 lol
@@manufacturedconsent7850 Point being, nobody else deliberately and publicly set themselves up as "alternative" or "revolutionary" when they were younger, only to demonstrate their hypocrisy later. That's the trouble with loudmouth revolutionaries.
@@RichardMcHale-i6m It's called life. You'd have had a very sheltered and uninformed one if you still believe at 68 yrsold what you did at 23. And to have the same lifestyle would be impossible.
@@manufacturedconsent7850 The trick is not to make a public show of it for only self-publicity's sake, to publicly huff and puff about it in order to be noticed.
I come from an Irish back ground. I was born in Scotland and never felt welcome because of my background and that was back in my teens. Johnny is correct though about the state of our country.
There's not enough room and not enough houses. It don't matter what country they come from if there isn't enough room then there isn't enough room. He should have said that.
John Lydon is of Irish parentage.
His father was from Galway.
He was called Paddy by his workmates. Sometimes, Paddy is not a friendly address.
As an immigrants son, he should know better.
Na home nations coming together nowadays 💪🏼
Do you think it might have had anything to do with the IRA at the time?
Why should he? How's the anti immigration protests in Ireland going?
Hes an immigrant and working class he is not working class
Spot on Johnny
One of the best great man 👨 😊
Incredibly wise thoughts and conversation!……If only politicians thought this way, and worked for traditional Britain!… Thank you John!…..
They didn't listen to johnny when he exposed Saville he's worth a listen
He didn't expose Savile, he hinted at Savile's "seediness" and added that he'd heard rumours, without specifying what those rumours were. Even if they contained a grain of truth, hearing rumours isn't the same as having concrete evidence.
That was a long time ago!!
John's brilliant, he always speaks his mind articulately, always has interesting things to say, even if you don't always agree with him! They don't make them like him any more!