Yeah he’s an inspiration some things I don’t agree with but I respect greatly for that because he has the intelligence to be the same way about others.

He is the Real Deal - super courageous and powered by good nature and honesty

Typical leftist channel, throwing in a photo of Thatcher - who was NOT in power throughout the punk era. Marxist Labour was destroying the UK while people were rioting.

Typical rightist person justifying their hero's methods @@Rrtnns

@@sexobscura What methods? Oh you mean the methods used to save Britain from becoming a 3rd World country. As opposed to the methods used by Mao and Guevara to open people's skulls.

@@Rrtnns she was in power part of it

Indeed👍

Agreed we need more people like him

Nomadmandolin what he's been doing his whole life, honesty is key x

Nomadmandolin ;Talk about Keep it Real...NeverEver gets repetative..just like his best Lyric's...His Honesty..for me is The best Example of Anyone..out there..willing to speak the truth..much to most of his fellow aged..poloticians..et al..Chagrin..!Live The lyricx..Stay Honest.-Simple.

Yeh,I used to have respect until I realised he knew what Jimmy Ssville was up.to.

@@fraserl8652 Why,he knew what Jimmy Saville was up to and said absolutely nothing.

Agree completely.

+Blues fan And he has a great sense of humor, that most people that don't like him don't get. His views are realistic and honest.

Nomadmandolin You are right about those points. Unfortunately, some of his former fans do not like to see the intellectual side of John Lydon. Then there's the Establishment figures who always thought of him as radical, outspoken and dangerous. So he is probably getting rather isolated in the UK now, in terms of popularity and influence, although independent thinkers will always see the sense of what he is saying because their minds have not been programmed to pre-judge him before he opens his mouth. Sadly, there are fewer people who think independently than there are bigots from all sides, but I don't suppose it'll stop JL and it won't stop me admiring the sensible things he says.

+Blues fan He's never been more liked in the UK, I think, over the last ten or fifteen years or so he's started to become thought of as something of a national treasure. Even by people like my grandmother who thought during the 70s, 80s and on that he was the lowest of the low. After he made something of a comeback to the public consciousness in the early 2000s, his popularity has soared! It warms the cockles! :)

robin graves Yes, I believe you're right.

+Lesley May Indeed! So many people are unaware that he is a truly reflective and very intelligent man. It would be an awesome conversation, and experience in general

@@PetePapadakos He knew what Jimmy Saville was doing and talks about it as if he was proud of it.No guts and obviously a mercenary. Wanted the money too much.I am disgusted that the fact he would sing the Lyrics and yet allow what happened.Shame on him.

People say never meet your idols, but i can't imagine meeting him would cause any problems, especially if you talked about things you disagree about.

I don't think Saville was more powerful than the Royal family ,Richard Branson ,Margaret Thatcher,George Bush & others on the receiving end of Lydons comments.... Check out the printed attack & impression about Jimmy Saville from the comedian/actor/'magician' Jerry Sadowitz ..or the Irvine Welsh 'book character' -both are still very much alive... I'm not putting down Lydon was a 'Hero to me' in late '70s to early '80s - but I don't think the 'Savile comments' amounted to much - the complete Lydon interview is available on YT ...& it amounts to very little...when Lydon states "I know some rumours" it sums how silly this whole 'Lydon tried to take down Savile' story really is.

@@andchat6241 You're correct. That gobbet has been homed-in on since his death, but it was only a bit of throwaway speculation on Lydon's part. He didn't KNOW, just felt uneasy about Savile and said it.

Jenny, what I find frustrating is that Lydon always talks about "telling it like it is" & "the Truth" - but his exaggerations (& his adoring fans acceptance of this nonsense) is getting worse ..an example -saying "he was banned from the BBC" (after he "outed Savile" in early '78)... But he appeared on Jukebox jury in '79-TOTP in 1978,'79,'81,'83,'86 etc..on 'Whistle Test 1979,'84,'86 etc & various other TV & Radio shows on the BBC.......

He knew about saville but like many others did nothing about it

Everyone talks about what Lydon said about saville in that one particular interview but what about off camera ? Do you really think Lydon just kept his mouth shut while around familiar people ? Saville was intertwined with the royal family. Enough so that one of the members ( I forget who exactly ) of the royal family made saville godfather of his children. The royal family even appointed saville as the head of a mental asylum at some point. I think Lydon knew that saying to much about saville was literally a life and death situation. So who here would be willing to risk their life to take down saville given that you were in the same situation ?

The Fool on the Hill ...

That is an incredible truth

You don't say?

"Lydon is a successful idiot with no idea at all." --- The Earth

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amen

You mean, John didn't have the disdain? ( Or,spoke with out it, as you said.

Grace Bowers *whether. Fucking idiot.

He makes me sick.

I could be wrong, I could be right!

Whether*

He does resonate with alot, ALOT of Common folk 🙏

purplepoppyz I agree, he has a very healthy distrust of all Politicians, so called nobility, corporate media ect ect

His teeth were pretty rotten.

He's teeth back then where very rotten

i mean his teeth were pretty rotten

@Daniel Michael Not so.if you watch and really watch his interviews,it is the complete opposite.

That phrase was around long before Johnny Rotting 🤮

@Jesse It's as if the masses have narcissistic personality disorder. People's egoes have become hypersensitive and intolerant to any form of disagreement. The days when two people with differing opinions could engage in an interesting conversation and part the better for it, with neither feeling they "won" or "lost" are, unfortunately, long gone, along with self respect and maturity. All part of the indoctrination process, I suppose, because if you're lacking in self respect and maturity, you'll buy anything, even if you have to borrow the money to buy it.

His parents are from Cork like me 🇮🇪

Then why did he support Trump, who lies constantly?

strombo is canadian , maybe that's why .. hah

And their moron son backing those extinction rebellion dunces

He's a very principled man. A true hero.

@@rubytuesday2564 Yes he's come through a troubled and difficult childhood and calls it how it is.........as you say a very principled man........too bad that the world is not full of such men........God bless him.

@@stevehughes1510 And God bless you....

@@rubytuesday2564 And to you and your family Ruby.............I pray that this troubled world of ours can one day appreciate the goodness that is in the spirit........all the best always.

sad

@jonybeam Fair call. So who do you support in English politics ? I'm tired of English in Ireland. Brexit is great. You English want your country back from the Europeans. We Irish want our country back from you. Aren't you tired of hypocrisy ? Derek Warfield said it best: "So where is the flag of England, Stained red with Irish blood ? Go where brute force has triumped, And hypocrisy makes its lair In your question you'll find the answer It was or still is there". You people sing "God Save" to people who put serial killers to shame. Hypocrisy is just the realm of your politicians who bow to whatever bitch or fool or madman calls themselves King or Queen, at any given point in history.

@jonybeam There's only one version of God Save the Queen I ever liked. It's not the one that you call your national anthem. There's a better version. The version sung by a young lad with Irish parents. But has he wrapped himself in the Butcher's Apron, now ? I thought he was joking when he did it as a lad. Now he's serious ? Just another hypocrite ? Johnny Rotten ? John Lydon ? More like John Bull. Or John Bullshit. Before you take yours back, give us ours. You've only had it for eight hundred years. Brexit is great. England for the English. Or whatever it is. But first, Ireland for the Irish.

@@jimreily7538 err...except almost no Irish people want the North 'back'. Fact.

Trump isn’t for the working class and Brexit isn’t for the working class, you’re deluded. Lydon should know better, the younger version of him would never have given support to these billionaires duping working class people to enhance their own wealth. I love the guy, but he’s becoming confused with old age.

@ldyson22 - The point is.... the interviewer attributed the "1 2 3 4!" count to the wrong group.

Joe Kelly . Oh come off it. Lydon was 'wise after the event' ! If he could have done something at the time then shame on him for not doing so !

Alfie Gilder-Smith John has had something to say about Savile at many of his gigs over the years. I remember seeing him in Oxford and he had plenty to say about the establishment nonce, way before Savile died and the story became public knowledge. What do you expect John to do? Should he have killed Savile? He faced charges of slander and libel, yet he still shouted what he knew to the crowds that came to see him perform. Don’t try and make out like John wasn’t trying to do the right thing. He did so even at risk of being sued.

@@petermills542 he did do something, he said "i'd like to kill jimmy saville, he's up to all sorts of seediness we all know about but aren't allowed to talk about" what more can he do than say he's up to bad seedy shit? you know the people in the media can repress interviews. don't be so naive.

@@petermills542 Saville was powerful and had the protection of very powerful people... Back in 78 there was very little that a young 'outcast' could've done.