Wit And Wisdom Of John Lydon
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- čas přidán 27. 10. 2020
- Today is the 43th anniversary of Never Mind The Bollocks by Sex Pistols, so I complied the best of John Lydon's wit, wisdom, and wisecracks from his interviews over the years. #JohnLydon #SexPistols
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R.I.P Nora, I can not imagine what pain and sorrow that John is going through atm, but all your fans sending their love to you. She is no longer in pain, and is reunited with Ari Up.
u gotta love him brutal honesty is healthy in my book. I only just realised his wife is battling dementia my heart goes out to them both
My heart goes out to them too. I wish there was better treatment for Dementia.
@@SynthJohn yeh man I think the best thing for dementia is a good considerate family member just trying to sorta smooth things along and make as least unpleasant as poss its always gonna be difficult thanx 4 replying brother
No love him yourself and keep it
Gotta love John.
A living legend.
Long may you continue to challenge this corrupt society.
True!!!
My mum used to love me, I think, 62 years ago, but the prolapse has caused some medical issues now she is 89, but I still care for her immensly, given that 2 of her 5 sons gave up and got burn't in a box...hey new takeaway idea for Richard Branson, Burn in a Box, special offer for pre booked clients, if you tell him what day you are dying
John Lydon, A National treasure! My God! He spits THE TRUTH!☝️
He says what he thinks you mean .
Not Only do I love John, I Agree with him
MAGA 🇺🇸
Johnny Lydon, truly incredible writer, and liver of life
Liver of life. That's funny!
@@kennethperez6236 Country Life butter is proven to give you a good liver unlike alcohol. 😂😂
Take care of your liver
I absolutely love Johnny. I find him to be the most fascinating, intelligent, talented, authentic, articulate, highly entertaining, sincere, charismatic and absolutely gorgeously handsome rock star on the planet! I could watch and listen to him all day! As you can probably tell I have an insane crush on Johnny! LOL! ❤💋
Bang on on Savile. Man is the truth teller. 👍👍👍👍🇮🇪
Savile should have paid for his crimes when he was alive, unfortunately he had too much power, control and dirt on the BBC, Royal Family, and the Government, to get punished.
@@SynthJohn its sickening. Funny him and gary glitter always gave me the ookies as a kid
Love the stuff you put up. Bravo👍👍👍😁
@@novo611 The moment with Tessa Dahl at Glitter's This Is Your Life is disturbing, now what we know. Yeah, now Gary is in now prison where he belongs taking it up the shitter.😂 Thank you much appreciated. 😊👍👍
centrism..
neither fully
left or right.
balance!
may you live long mr lydon!
you’re a good egg!
your influence has been…
touching - soulfully!
✌🏻🇦🇺
One of a few people i'll miss most in this world is John Lydon. He was a true gentleman and a new music genre pioneer back in his days, i grew up in that era and look back on it, it was something special and i loved it!!
I was 17 when I got the bollocks album. After years of the disco shit on the radio I was like.... finally some music not made for my parents, this is for me. Saw them twice, once with my wife who didn't get it and later with my 14 year old daughter who loved it
That's good. I didn't get the Pistols until later on. I discovered Lydon through Public Image Limited, and then I managed to get into the Pistols. I've seen Lydon four times, three times with PIL, and once during his book release. Never Mind The Bollocks is my top 10 albums of all time.
What would you know about disco ,the commercial shit deemed disco by the radio
I reckon a good job for Johnny would be to help people with fame and what it does to a person. John is an extraordinarily insightful person.
Yes, for what he does for his wife who is battling dementia is amazing.
As time goes on, I love JL more and more.
John is spot on about Kate Bush, she was/is a genius. Infact, he is right about pretty much everything. Legend!
Arguably, the most influential female artist in the last 40 years, and paved the way for artists like Bjork and La Roux.
@@SynthJohn Yep, and penned a lot of those songs by herself, at 16 years old (or young). This is a great vid you put together.
@@dannygray4898 Thank you, very much.
@@SynthJohn your more than welcome. Thank you, I can tell you put a lot of time/effort into this, compiling the interviews and pics. I'll share this as much as I can.
John lydon is a legend, he's so honest and witty and he said from the start about Jimmy saville and it got covered up, and the greatest respect to him for caring for Nora while she has dementia he has been devoted to her from the start
Despite John's faults, his heart is definitely in the right place.
The ramones!?? I was up and kicking long before those spastics haha 😄
Good line but not true
John is a living tonic big love to the man 😁
And big love to his wife too who is battling Dementia.
That was a fantastic compilation Synthjohn. The 55 minutes sped by, I was laughtin at the end when John talked about his dad & then immediately felt sad to hear him say how much he loved his mum.
Thank you Andrew. Yes, you can definitely feel the love that Lydon has for his mother, Dad, and his wife Nora who sadly is now ill.
Say's it how it is, truthfully honest man. ♥️ John ♥️ P.i.L
"Anger is an Energy"
R.I.P Nora. R.I.P Rambo. 🇬🇧✌🏻
Love Johnny rotten
That was great thanks Mr CZcamsr and cheers to Mr Lydon.
My pleasure. 👍👍
As a Brit .. I loved the ramones. But they were a garage band. That’s what we English call great American bands in that genre.
We call it the same thing and I'm in the states !...
He is my favourite punk singer. He invented it, with his cruel but unbelievably honest lyrics, and eccentric attractive performances on stage. His past built him into a rebel and smart guy. He trusted his talent, and didn't waste any time on showing it, because as he said ,, Life is precious and not a thing to be destroyed ''.
Wow, thank you for that. It was amazing. John is a legend!!!!!
Thank you for watching!!
Brilliant compilation
Thank you.
Brilliant. What more can you say
Very very intelligent, truth teller,,👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
Absolutely brilliant, thanks eternal for the upload!
Glad you enjoyed it!
I always liked his interviews he is funny and say it like it is
Johnny acknowledges that his thin sunglasses and stance in the Pistols is based on Peter Cooks character Drimble Wedge in Bedazzled.
Two people I really admire
nicely put together.
Thank you.
Great stuff, from beginning to end
Thank you.
when John and Steve are talking it sounds like Derek and Clive the absolute dogs bollocks love em!!!
I would have said Cookie and Jonesy were more like Derek and Clive, but yeah, I can absolutely hear Derek and Clive in John and Steve too.
Great video. Great tribute. well put together.
Thanks.
@@SynthJohn I think Jon would appericate this.
To be honest, I'm a 16 year old kid from Scotland and seeing him perform recently here with my dad was FUCKING. BRILLIANT... my dad was a punk himself, he mixed around back then, he wore the swastikas, he did his hair, he got into the trouble we hear on documentaries. He found half of the shit he did stupid, but regardless it's hilarious to me, i wouldn't do this stuff myself because i'm here for the music... there's nothing going on that pisses me off to dress how i feel about it, say what i think, and what i think is right. But Johnny Rotten will always be someone i idolise for being honest, and telling it how it is, and say what's on your mind because honesty is better than lies... I'm still an occasional liar but i try my best 😂
This is absolutely a brilliant watch!!! Personally I was into the soul/funk from the late 70s-present day especially the Brit funk/streetsounds scene but my alternative genre was the clash these boys the pistols and early jam.and bands like UB40 and steel pulse and etc,Johnny Lyndon is one good man and speaks for a lot of decent people who think 🤔 a like with all the shit what’s going on and calls it out whether u like it or not!! Respect to this man and thanks for uploading this ⚒️⚒️
Thank you for watching!!
Huge fan of The Pistols. Huge fan of The Truth. Nicely done. God Bless.
You're welcome. Thank you for watching. 👍👍
Love ye work Johnny !!! Slung me 'ook w' you . Kiwi punk. Pushing 60 in Oz.
Some great punk music from Down Under. 👍👍
He is great!!!
You gotta love love the line, sums up the Ramonaes, Johnny Says I like the Ramones, like Status Quo are talented
This is an absolute bitchen compilation!!
Well done you😃👍
I especially loved John’s words to his mum at the end. Mine passed away in 2013 literally minutes after we (my 2 daughters and me) left the hospital thinking she’d done a complete turnabout after caring for her (she had crippling dementia) for over 2 years in addition to my eldest who has physical, mental and complex medical disabilities since my wife passed away from a stroke when they were babies. I guess what I’m trying to to say is this : I didn’t grow up in a British council flat in Finsbury Park or lost all my memory to spinal meningitis ... I grew up up in a nice middle class family in Australia that was nevertheless fractured by communication breakdown (my parents) and delinquency (me and my mates) that almost saw me sent to a ‘home’, molestation by the court appointed “social worker” (not quite Jimmy Saville but if he’d been given the time and opportunity who knows ...” Anyway, flawed as I am ... I love and cherish my kids and my real friends. Peace, Out and hopefully I’ll see see you both soon Mum and Dad.
Sorry for your losses.
Go Johnny 👍👍
Go Johnny Go!!
Got triggered when he talked shit on the ramones lol. But that’s John being John . Gotta love it
I could listen to John rant about Ramones for hours. 😂😂
Well the ramones were a very FUCKIN STUPID band. They jus sound greate as a musical act but in lyrics and subjects they were very empty
Never really heard of the Ramones, John Mentions them, so I thought , well frigging in the rigging, nothing else to do......had a good sleep...Rolf Harris on Acid
john is the talent disgrace what they did to john god bless you john
I thought the Disney series they did was abysmal.
The one thing that's always irritated me about Lydon is his utter dismissal and destruction of any other act that isn't to HIS taste.
His opinion of Status Quo is meaningless to the millions of people, including me, who loved them.
Same thing for the Ramones.
Being 58 now, I'm of the punk generation, listen to Lydon these days and he's become everything he despised in the 70's, a middle aged rock dinosaur banging on about the old days.
Having said all that, the Pistols were an awesome rock n roll band and NMTB is a genuine classic album and should be remembered as such.
Did you see Jonesy interview Yes on Jonesy's Jukebox back in 2018? That wouldn't have happened in 1977 😂😂
@@SynthJohn no, i'll try to find it.
@@bluesboy54321 czcams.com/video/s1DWBIBDLPo/video.html
Love him or hate him...he is a national icon...like Paul McCartney...which one would be the more interesting down the pub though???
John adored 'Sid and Nancy'
He didn’t like Nancy
John Lydon was 'based' decades before the term was even thought of.
John has his faults, and has an abrasive personality which doesn't endear itself to everyone, but he was/is always true to himself, whether people like/liked it or not, and gave the world; Sex Pistols, and Public Image Limited. Seen PIL three times, and they never disappoint. I would say he was the original troll too, but I would have to give that title to Lou Reed.
I Completely agree with John's Assessment of The Ramones !! Not only do I think they are overrated, I also think that there relevance in general has been " Incredibly Overstated as well " !! The Disparity between The Pistols And The Ramones " Couldn't Be Greater " In My View !!! From Adrian Browne 1965
I like Ramones, and Sex Pistols, but I prefer The Pistols and I find American's can't fathom what cultural impact The Pistols had on the UK, during the 1970's. 1970's were really shitty, with endless strikes, 3 Day Week, mass unemployment, and pretentious music, and Pistols came along, and blew everything that came before them, and that cultural impact is being still being felt today, particularly the debauchery of the Royal Family. John was spot on with the Royal Family years ago.
Thanks 4 Your Support Re My Post . Take Care !!! From Adrian Browne 1965
Thankyou Take Care From Adrian Browne 1965
he was awesome but oh how the mighty fall
Yeah too much Country Life and Alcohol 🤣🤣
Hard considering he never was al big drinker also only did the butter ads to make another album and tour with pil it was easy money
Lydon airing his dirty laundry about the Ramones again. Still resentful that punk started in America. Granted, it was influenced by 60's English rock and early 70' glam but it was already there with Stooges and the Dolls in '73. Nothing musically comparable in UK at that time, not even glam.
What about pub rock, and bands like Hawkwind? Bands like Blondie cited Dr Feelgood as a influence on the American punk scene. What about the Australian scene? Bands like The Saints?
@@SynthJohn all started with stooges. Dolls then Ramones who took it to higher level then the English punk scene it was all good. Love the Damned the buzzcocks and the pistols clash super great
@@DaveyRamone9th I think who really started punk can be subjective. Some argue punk started in 60's garage rock with bands like The Seeds, and Los Saicos. Some say it started with Iggy, some say it started with the CGGB's scene. How ever you look at it, there have been some amazing bands that laid the foundations for punk. Plus, I would add Richard Hell, Wayne County and Dictators to your list.
Eddie and the hot rods and all the pub rock scene
@@DaveyRamone9th Nonsense 🤣🤣 regarding Ramones
Dead Boys were on a higher level
Legend
Bang on about 'The Ramones' ! And they were a great band, but 'nothing new'?
UK PuNk was DEFINITELY different to US pUnk!
AND, when it came to the North of England, Scotland, Wales and of course Northern Ireland, it was different again,(in all of those places) and that is what made it so GREAT! Long Live pUnK rOcK ! dx
You were only kids and conquered the world, left a permanent and indelible mark in history. Nothing you could have done would have changed Sydney's destiny. I buried 2 cause of that shit, hammer. Stay cool John, you n yours.
we all know that sir Johnny Rotten is the king of rock and roll Chris Maber sings
John talking about the gun with real bullets in wanting them changed on set that’s so apt with what has just happened with Alex Baldwin shooting and killing that girl while filming it’s bonkers to think there allowed real bullets on set as if this happening to that girl couldn’t of been foreseen.
John Lydon been trolling since 1976, and his latest target... butthurt lefty SJWS 😂😂. As for the Lydon is a wanker and supports Trump comments, and claim him to be anti-BLM, to you keyboard warriors... sensible black people will never claim BLM as their movement, and BLM attracts idiots like Lewis Hamilton, who is a multi-millionaire capitalist who claims to be for the black disfranchised, and Biden bombs Syria. You know just saying.
One would have had to have gone to the extreme in their actions to get the location of their grave dismantled...
Jimmy Savile's grave was dismantled out of respect for public opionion
I'm sure I read his grave was originally near Scarborough Castle.
I have answer to most things but youtube is to scared to view my opinion.
Johnny is confused like alot of people. He's close but doesn't get the cigar.
Money can't buy you love.
I can imagine John Lydon, Grace Slick and Nena Hagen will be in one table it would be a different dimension of intellectual discourse
I would add Jello Biafra to that list as well.
Kate Bush, Diamanda Galas and lene lovich will also be in the list ive check all their interview and how much they can be profound and outwit their interviewers
@@typhoon2minerva Lydon loves Kate Bush, so it would be pretty magical to hear both of them having an deep, profound, conversation with each other.
@@SynthJohn when i check many different interview with these guys including the late Wendy O Williams and the Opera singer Maria Callas hearing them express their thoughts is like watching Passolini, Federico Fellini and Ingmar Bergmans film
He had a bad experience with Catholicism, shame he didn’t meet true Christians.
Yep , there he would of met the truth himself ,Christ.
John should be given a university degree for his intellectual skills.
50 04 , thats new world order clap trap .
0:59 😈😈😈
Cigar muncher ! 🤣
Savage truth.
A brilliant guy in some ways and very entertaining. But unfortunately it seems he can really treat people badly at times. In a really degrading and humiliating way. But definitely a unique individual.
That canned laughter is taking the piss out of what is a sad situation
That's American Talk Shows for you.
@@SynthJohn yeah spose so. It’s cheesy as shit
John has been manipulating the press a bit recently regarding the 'Pistol' mini series and has shown a little bit of disrespect towards his ex band mates, that doesn't bode too well with me but that aside he was and always will be the voice of a generation.
I love John, Steve, Paul, and Glen, and it's a shame that this mini series has fragmented the band, perhaps, forever.
To be honest, Steve has never really liked John, and there are times over the years, they have slung mud at each other , so I don't think the venom always lies with Lydon, although, Jonesy has mellowed a lot, and, I am happy for him that he's still doing Jonesy Jukebox by podcast now. John is John, despite his faults.
The venom between each other frustrates me as a fan, because I really want to them get on, and they are not getting any younger. Time is so short, and it doesn't wait for anyone.
The mini series looks like a pile of shite to me, made by an corporation, I have no time for, and for me, there is no film or documentary that has done Sex Pistols justice apart from The Filth And The Fury, and Huddersfield Christmas 1977.
And yes, I agree he is the voice of a generation.
@@SynthJohn You are correct John and Steve never got on, from Lydons audition to Winterland and even through the reunions there was always friction, travelling separately, different hotels etc.
The Pistol series I did watch and the six episodes centred around Steve Jones so I wouldn't class it as a sex pistols biopic, there were a few accuracies in it but there was also a fair bit of fiction which was only to be expected for something 'based' on someones memoirs and the fact it was over 45 years ago peoples memories are a bit hazy.....including mine.
He was the voice of my generation, and I have told him that face to face in the mid 90’s but he isn’t anymore. I am happy he is taking care of his wife! And I am sorry about Ari-up. He has had tons of grief and sadness in his life lately. I think he should have been involved in the pistol series, and he was asked. Maybe he was to busy, but he said he never know about it, and that is just not the truth.
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nice feik sid picks luvvem flog 'im good john!
So sad to hear the audience laughing on the conan obrien show
That's American audiences for you.
Cleaners should be paid a hell of a lot more as well.
I'm a John fan,but I just can't take any more"punk was this punk was that"stuff any longer,even from him-Vivienne was a clothes designer and Malcolm was a conman,what more needs to be said?
I get where you come from. Punk has always been the most divisive genre on what it actually is, or what it meant to people, and you get figureheads from American and British punk scenes drunkenly arguing over it. Lydon and Marky Ramone, a lot of that was cringe.
That’s how they all make their money mate. Not many honest business people who are. How much have you got?
Mmm a whole bunch of them??? Seems only one got caught..
Stuart Hall, Rolf Harris, Gary Glitter, Jonathan King all did porridge. Royal Family and politicians are unfortunately untouchable in the eyes of the law.
@@SynthJohn true,I was referring more to those behind the scenes.👍
Lydon says they were "not allowed" to talk about Savile because the pistols were manufactured and groomed like every other band that gets to be that famous. they were a controlled opposition band. If Johnny is such a threat to the establishment like he pretends to be no one could have stopped him speaking out about Savile. He knew the fame would be taken away if he kept on talking like that.
@@vac8846 If you was in Lydon's position would you have spoken out about in Saville 1978? BBC are far more responsible than Lydon for being Savile's enabler to his despicable crimes. Lydon said his bit. What else could have he done?
@SynthJohn you make some good points. He is definitely a very caring and decent human being and obviously not perfect like anyone else. I just think he wasn't supposed to say "we're not allowed...to talk" because he revealed that, like all celebrities, they have handlers and he would have been given a stern warning after those comments.
Sid the fashion victim? It's you Johnny who supported the destroy shirt + everything els that came from malcom + Vivian's outlet. Sid was the punk
They were all fashion victims. 😂😂 Have you ever seen Sid in a Swastika t-shirt? 🤣🤣
@@SynthJohn don't laugh at me coz I'm a fool.. 😭
@@Boilingfrogg Don't cry at me coz i'm a lunatic 🤣🤣
@@SynthJohn 😅🤣🤪👈
@@SynthJohn having said that it was a good video. Exelent work. Cheers. 👍
Marky.he keeps losing his wig.
32 40 , Why did you stop it there he's take on religion would of been intresting , sakr .
The Ramones were around before the Sex Pistols...fact.
And Dee Dee was popping yellow heads off his face, looking at dirty mags while listening to the first three Stooges albums... fact.. well, maybe opinion... 😂😂
I don't understand, does he hate the word punk or does he like.
One minute he'll bad mouth the word and the next he'll call himself punk, I love Lydon but the man has to make up his mind on punk.
Younger John hate the term punk, older John has begrudgingly come to accept it imo. John has that conflicting, contradictory nature, which doesn't endear itself to people, but that's the way he is.
@@SynthJohn I'd to hear his thoughts on Siouxsie Sioux or Siouxsie and the Banshees is?
@@mr.pulpnoir3526 John loved their guitar sound particularly when John McGeoch was in the band, although he wasn't keen on their lyrical content, saying it was too reliant on horror and Stephen King, which I disagree with him with that, as Siouxsie wrote some great songs like Halloween, Spellbound, Happy House, and had an distinctive vocal style, which set her apart from a lot of her punk peers.
@@SynthJohn I disagree as well, because if the sounded like Stephen King novels they wouldn't sound that great.
Love PiL and love the Banshees.
@@mr.pulpnoir3526 I like Stephen King novels, particularly his older novels, not so much his modern stuff, and the only song that referenced Stephen King was Christine. Love PiL too.
I don’t know why Lyndon hates the Ramones I love both bands but all truth Ramones made 14 albums and did 3200 shows and started in 1974 no need to compare. Long live Steve Jones he’s the Sex Pistols could care less about the lyrics I crank up that guitar
Lydon has always been outspoken when comes to the dismissal of American punk. Imo, I think Lydon saw the effects of heroin on the British punk scene when Johnny Thunders came over, and the effect it had on Sid, so that might have started his resentment towards the American punk rock scene.
I've never understand why American and British punk is compared all the time. Both were completely different scenes. I prefer British punk, because i'm British, and i'll be honest a bit biased.
To be honest, I do find Marky Ramone a bit arrogant, going on about which band came first. It shouldn't matter. Punk is universal. You don't see Black Sabbath bitching to Deep Purple on a metal panel on what band came first, only in punk that happens 😂😂
@@SynthJohn I agree marky should have said nothing to Lydon that day. I listen to to thunders and Ramones as well of all British punk and California punk everyday love it all. Ps Dee dee was the only heroine addict in Ramones thanks for writing.
He doesn't care about the Ramones clearly because as he said they were a completely different band. It's no comparison. He probably hates being compared to them all the time! I would!
As musicians, the Ramones were far tighter, far superior.
You don care about lyrics?? Thats why you like the ramones ppf jajaj
Ramones truly are overrated
Lol, I like their first three albums, after that not so much.
Fsir enough John, Kate Bush was creative, but she was one of the upper class toffee you hate and a right wing tory to boot. So her hippie-ish front was just that. A front.
But anyway... off with her head, and on with the vid
Glad he spoke out about the highly overrated boy band called the Ramones - 4 geeks with zero variety or originality , nothing compared to any of the main UK bands of the time - can’t see the appeal of them , stacks of average mediocre groups like them - who really would be inspired by them ? They created fuck all to get excited about and done nothing to deserve the reputation they have .
I agree that British punk is better, stacked with great bands like Damned, Clash, X Ray Spex, Slits, Subway Sect, Buzzcocks, although for me they are some great American punk bands too, like Misfits, Johnny Thunders And The Heartbreakers, however the American punk scene was too druggy.
@@SynthJohn im always on the side of the uk punk but to be fair USA had a band so glorious that the uk does not, THE CRAMPS
Agree!Ramones was a boy band.The Sex pistols and Nirvana is the only bands that gives me real energi when I am playing it looad!!!!
too bad he is a Trumpy, now a days...
Trump's gone tho... time to rip into Biden instead.
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I’ve Johnny more now that I heard him speak the truth about him liking Trump... he said everything the left ignores.
@@hdrjunkie American left-wing politics is just as bat shit crazy as American right-wing politics. Trump and Biden are both wankers. TBH, Lydon stating he likes Trump is just his way of trolling people.
Yes, let's all rage on behalf of the machine with our crayon coloured hair, so big and brave and not establishment puppets at all.
@@jelkel25 😂😂
1st time i heard the message i thought fuck this is good.