BBC banned Johnny Rotten in 1978 for telling the truth about Jimmy Savile
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John Lydon speaking on Piers Morgan's Life Stories
25 September 2015
John Lydon speaking on Piers Morgan's Life Stories
25 September 2015
Nothing rotten about this man, stayed by his very sick wife till the very end. Now that's love and courage! Solid to the core!
Very true
Is this you mr.Rotten?@@cv507
he is a true gent ...
I believe she was his ex wife and still stuck by her
It's awkward being a decent fella in a rotten world.
There was something rotten in the UK, but it wasn’t Johnny.
Jerry Sadowitz knew also, Google his bit from the 1980's I think it was.....
Well said!
WAS !!!!!! NOW.......
John knew but didn't do anything . Hes part of the cover up too
@@TomTom-so6hc what could he have done? It goes so so deep, he would have been murdered.
My respect for Johnny Rotten just skyrocketed after watching this. He's the hero we always needed, and the fact that he was vilified for calling out a legit monster for years on end is absolutely disgusting.
I wanna know who the _"whole bunch of them"_ were that Johnny refers to here.
Chris denning, dave Lee Travis, rolf Harris, garry glitter, max Clifford, Stuart hall, and quite possiy a good few more. It seems there are a lot of wrong 'uns at the BBC
@@wibblelord2633and they expect us to pay for a TV licence so they can cover for their mates!! Not happening
@@wibblelord2633 it why jill dando was assisanted by the bb c as she was about to expose them all
Johnnys whole career is honorable if u didn't have high honor for him in the beginning then you won't in the end. Yall will keep hating and loving him saying how he's dumb arrogant and obnoxious and then later how he's a "national treasure" and legend. The dull can never understand the artist not even death can help your fractured minds.
Johnny Rotten is a fiercely intelligent man indeed . after watching this clip my respect for him is off the scale indeed . he has more morals and integrity than any of the establishment indeed
Agree lydon dont ly
Agree lydon dont ly
Lydon dont lie down get up stand up
The irony of it all. The 70s badboy was the only one who had the guts to speak out against the true monster. It's always the rebels you ultimately respect and the overly polite good people who have so much to hide.
Yup. Most people don't respect rebels, though. They pretend to but they don't. They're more comfortable when everyone is predictable and pretentious.
Im afraid he should of shouted it from the roof tops , it is too late now .
And yet today we still silence the rebels instead of listening to them as soon as someone speaks out against the status quo they are shouted down, have we learned nothing?
Fools never do .
Some young woman did inform their bosses about Saville, but decided to keep quiet, probably protecting their jobs.
A formal and profound apology to John Lydon is overdue from the BBC.
Among many...
Will never happen
@@cattathat Yeah good luck with that
@@Cor_Nelis never the BBC is horrid
Johnny 'rotten' is better than the BBC
Its nice to know that there are courageous and caring people like Johnny Rotten in this world.
The irony that Savile was knighted and Johnny Rotten was slaughtered by the press.
When I was about 14 my father and I had a discussion regarding modern society and he told me that while water runs downhill the sewer of society runs uphill and the higher up the echelons the worse it becomes. Since then I have realized through particular events that he was 100% correct
The higher uphill you go, the less normal empathic people you'll meet, up to a level where the majority are narcissistic psychopaths. The royal family and high nobility are even intently brought up like that. They will for example remove an infant from the mother for long times and ignore its crying, as to develop in them a degree of psychopathy and counter the normal development of empathic traits. Just listen to royals like king Charles or the late prince Philip, one laments that there are too many humans in this world, the other hopes to reincarnate as a deadly virus or plague.
@@bromisovalum8417 Exactly
Another, similar saying I heard from my great aunt is 'The scum rises to the top'. Certainly seems to be true in many cases - politics, finance/banking, corporations, these public school (mostly men) are a particular problem in this country uk. Not in every case, of course, but far, far too many cases
@@springwood1331 sc**m rises to the top that sounds like some marxist sh!*t
The reason why higher ups are so sinister bcoz they can afford to nd they are capable of getting away if someone else's capable of that they would've done the same in west most of the crimes are done specific group of people nd the government doesn't share their identity in public
John Rotten - far more brains between his ears than anyone give him credit for.
Jimmy Saville - far more evil in his chest than anyone gave him credit for.
His (Jonnie's) autobiography was quite possibly one of the most entertaining and hilarious things I've ever read.
agreed
@Muddy Witch - Who's fault must that be?
+Apathesis0 I need to pick up a copy.
Johnny is a proper punk. He goes right against the grain but, he’s also incredibly intelligent, observant and articulate.
Erm yeah right lol a rightwing Trump supporting... real punk... l....o.....l
He used to be but then became right wing which is the opposite of punk
@@joelguiton9102 this means he implies something is wrong now with the left in its values. They have become the vile establishment. WAKE UP! There is no more real liberalism anymore!
@@TheHollandHS You must be a yank. We have actual socialists in Britain, we don't need to call it "liberalism" like your pathetic democrats.
@@thesaurus9226 Social democracy has social liberalism , not liberal conservatism.
A rare moment for Piers, he's spent most of his career protecting the interest of the very people John Lydon is talking about
I don’t follow him at all, has he mentioned the grooming gangs ever?
specious sound bite
He knows when to jump ship at the right moment. He’s a populist chameleon and nothing more.
Yep, you nailed it.
That piers is the greatest hypocrite of them all. Had this innerview taken place at any point prior to saviles death, he would have been slamming rotten like all the rest of mass mainstream. But now all of a sudden he's acting oh so knowledgeable and pontificating on the decline of the moral fabric at the big black c...😅😅😅 It's all laughable actually 😅😅
John Lydon is an honest respectful man with guts, which is why they tried to shut him down. Totally love him to bits. ❤
Banned from the BBC for telling the truth
anyone rich who sides with the poor is a champagne socialist... i'm not knocking the idea of it.. i think its sound, I think those who are poor who agree with conservative ideas should be called champagne conservatives.
Oh bollocks...... he didn't tell the truth about Saville cos he didn't know th truth about Saville....... this is all said now, 30 yrs after the abuse took place...... Don't try and tell me thet Lydon tried to blow the whistle on Saville because he didn't..... He called Saville a "hypocrite"........ not a paedo.
Man, Lydon nailed it. He spoke up about it but no one was going to do anything about it. Now they bitch and complain about it, but Savile is already dead.
@ mmmhumummhmm The Pretend Spirit "champagne conservatives" how about pot-noodle conservative
Kutta Kyte He or nobody could prove it was the truth at the time but obviously now we know he was right, he just happened to mention that he "heard some rumours" about savile.
He had the balls and spoke out and the bbc silenced him, Johny you should be honoured and the bbc, Shame on you
Not just the BBC higher up in power did, his life would off been on the line even members off his family and he new it that why he not say much even to this day he not say.
John silenced himserlf. He cou l d have gone anywhere if he knew about Savill, but old motor mouth kept shtum
And he'll never become knight of the british order.
I honestly think politicians, police commanders and members of the Royal family should be investigated independently. Savile's type of crimes are often taking place within the higher echelons of our society. And they have the power to make sure those crimes don't fall under any spotlight.
BBC are completely hypocritical.
Honest, snarling, articulate, perceptive, compassionate. God bless you, Johnny Rotten 💜💜💜
The only real punk, the original and final punk rocker. No posing, no parsing. An honorable man.
Spot on right on the money
The Irony of a man named Johnny rotten (the face of punk music) exposing rotten people. It's beautiful. When I was in grade 8, my teacher made me leave class because I wore a sex pistols shirt. The man who everybody feared, was right all along.
people are scared of the truth, especially those with things to hide
Shook Ones there’s nothing more punk rock than that right there
@@chrissouthall411 fantastic
Bet you wish you still had that t shirt because they sell for a few quid
Shook Ones because people hate facts even if it was presented at face value, but still nobody could give a damn and this’s why corruption with in media, Hollywood and other various organizations have gotten away with so much because people fear the truth and what would happen if there was retaliation from those organizations!!! That’s why some many actors, actresses, ppl in the music sphere have all died under weird deaths!!!!
Well done Johnny. I also got in trouble for calling Saville out. I grew up in the care system. We knew about the nasty Jimmy, and couldn't understand why people thought he was such a nice guy. I then met him fourty years later in the Gibraltar cruise line terminal. I refuse to serve him and told him clearly that I knew who and what he was. I thought the truth would never come out. Many kids reported him. The police knew what he was. He was just untouchable. And he was just the tip of the iceberg.
He was a greasy pig. Like Weinstein, so obvious what he was doing. The Beeb should be disbanded.
Sir Cliff Richard seems shady...
why did'nt you not go to the press then sista dee?
@@nikreece6295 the truth is, only the red tops were willing to unmask Jimmy So Vile, and nobody treated them seriously.
Being untouchable just made him feel invincible.
Nothing but admiration for this man. He was patient and knew he was right. He didn’t have to crusade. He was a musician and an artist. He heard enough rumors to know about smoke and fire.
Johnny knew and spoke up and then got a ban by the BBC. He's still here and is the same guy as he was back then. Love you Johnny Rotten
Lydon did not out Jimmy Savile in 1978, nor was he banned from the BBC Lydon spoke of Savile in an interview for radio in 1978 that was never broadcast until after Savile's death. The interview from 1978 can be found here on KZhead which Lydon says he wants to kill 200 famous people including Mick Jagger and Savile. Even a broken clock is right twice a day. Lydon was not banned from the BBC in 1978. He was banned from live interviews. All the videos below can be found on KZhead He is on Juke Box Jury in 1979. TOTP in 1979 - Deaths Disco TOTP in 81 - Flowers of Romance Savile died on 29 Oct 2011. His crimes were exposed nearly a year later by the ITV Exposure programme broadcast on 3 Oct 2012. Lydon included the interview as a bonus track on re-release of the first album PiL in 2013
Stop giving credence to Johnny's lies. He was never banned from the BBC in the slighest. In fact, the year after the radio interview, he did the Peel Sessions with PiL, PiL appeared on _ToTP_ playing "Death Disco", and did other appearances there (including the famous _OGWT_ performance with "Poptones") up until their hiatus in '92 or so (a search for PiL BBC proves this!), and Lydon would do the _Dancing in the Streets_ (1994/5) and _Seven Ages of Rock_ (2007) documentaries, in particular, the episodes where they talked about punk. Safe to say that he was close to the mark with Savile, but he was never banned from the BBC.
Lydon is a good man, demonised and misunderstood in his youth, but at his core there was and always has been an honest man with morals.
I think he played a lot of that up, he was a punk, but yes, I agree with you
There another to look at it why didn't go to the Newspapers with what they found out makes you wonder.
@@graemenicol6377 Because not one paper in the country would have printed it, never in a million years. Savile was a protected man, practically untouchable.
Because newspapers are run by paedo’s too
He's a piece of shit.
Piers Morgan helped to suppress this filth.
Anne Moore did he ?
Piers Morgan *_IS_* filth.
They all knew and kept quiet
dieselscience I already said that. Stop stealing my thunder.
He's a gatekeeper.
I remember him saying this and he was right but no one listened, how the BBC did not look into what he said is unbelievable..... Good for him speaking out.
how can you remember him saying this it was never released
@@oliver5479 Lydon at least alluded to Saville being shady on other occasions back in the day.
It wasn't a matter of "not looking into it," it was a matter of broadcasting potentially liablous information. Don't re-write reality.
Lydon did not out Jimmy Savile in 1978, nor was he banned from the BBC Lydon spoke of Savile in an interview for radio in 1978 that was never broadcast until after Savile's death. The interview from 1978 can be found here on KZhead which Lydon says he wants to kill 200 famous people including Mick Jagger and Savile. Even a broken clock is right twice a day. Lydon was not banned from the BBC in 1978. He was banned from live interviews. All the videos below can be found on KZhead He is on Juke Box Jury in 1979. TOTP in 1979 - Deaths Disco TOTP in 81 - Flowers of Romance Savile died on 29 Oct 2011. His crimes were exposed nearly a year later by the ITV Exposure programme broadcast on 3 Oct 2012. Lydon included the interview as a bonus track on re-release of the first album PiL in 2013
Well done Johnny you deserve a massive public apology it's a pity the rest of showbiz didn't have the balls to say anything.
Apology for what? He was never banned by the BBC, his comments were unaired the same way anyone making unsubstantiated and potentially liablous comments to any media outlet would have the same thing happen. He was on the BBC regularly after his comments. Don't be so gullible as to believe verbose stories from celebrities. Lydon was lying.
I have an added respect for him for this. Well done to him for trying to speak out.
Yak yak yak
If you want to see the warmest documentary you'll ever watch, look on here for Never mind the Baubles. Its about the pistols playing a benefit gig in huddersfield on xmas eve 77. You get the real pistols and what they were really doing. Prepare to feel the love...
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You really believe he knew anything and wasn't just acting out his obstinate punk rocker image? Come on don't be a fool. He wasn't trying to raise any alarm then, nor did he ever mention Savile again, he was just being rude about him for publicity. The Sex Pistols were a manufactured boy band, his job was to offend and be belligerent, as trained by his manager. Just a convenience for his image to pretend he was silenced by 'the man', all an act, but suckers keep sucking.
@@J5X7 there was a lot more to them than you think. They were obviously being notorious to create headlines to sell more records but watch the documentary Never mind the Baubles and you'll see the good stuff they kept quiet because they knew the scandalous stuff brought in more money. Watch that documentary for an example of the good they done. It's also a magic watch.
it's a bit ironic that in a piece exposing BBC's cover up when johnny says "not only him but a whole bunch of them" the Rottweiler Piers Morgan demonstrates an incredible lack of curiosity as to who those others were
because ppl like him think its fine to seem outraged about people actually caught but keep the silence for those who are yet to be found out, business as usual.
I think Piers knows who they are...
@@disasterincarnate Morgan worships the established fact/s. Safe that way. Yapping arsehole.
for legal reasons, not lack of curiosity. The man is the nosiest cunt in media. He just didn't want to be sued by anyone.
@@deluxedjsireland224 surely you can't be sued for asking a question
Having been abused (every way except sexual) myself, this guy is a hero to me. Not one single person believed & supported me, never mind speaking up for me! It just makes me angry that people wouldn't listen to him & put a stop to kids being hurt in the worst ways possible! This guy put his livelihood on the line to speak up for those who couldn't speak up for themselves. It's very sad that we live in a world where speaking up for vulnerable people isn't the norm, & even discouraged!
Hope you are ok now.
@@thatguyfromcetialphaV I am, thank you. I've had a lot of help & support from some awesome people.
If one of these pricks touched my daughter I would not be going to the cops. Where are these gutless fathers with no balls?
I bought country life butter.
Do you have any advice on getting past this trauma? I appreciate this is a really personal question but I'm going through recovery from it myself right now
When i was a kid in the 80s i was frightened of him but as an adult i think he is such a wonderful kind man I have a lot of respect for him.
The thing that gets me about this is even now no one is holding the BBC to account for this. They funded, enabled, protected and then covered up for Saville, Harris... the lot. Disgraceful.
Yes and they are culpable in many of these crimes, the people at the BBC should have been arrested and charged accordingly.
Hindsight is a wonderful thing!
And for cliff richards... andrew o neill... peter schofield...
dumbass wtf about epstein or did you forget so soon how they redacted every name and no one got arrested huh how odd unless theres more on the list then you realize like say gates, and many more..... you mindless fruiyloop.
And people knew. If you worked on a childrens ward where he hunted, they were threatened into silence.
As if Piers Morgan didn't know.
Piers is a cunt.
@@brendandaly2493 never agreed with anyone as much as I do with you
Piers was one of willing victims
MediTruth of course he didn’t know. Can you imagine if he had info like that he’d have had it published the moment he heard
I was just thinking the same thing..
My husband, when he was 18 in 1964, also told me about the rumours regarding Saville. He also said that Savile was untouchable.
What an absolute legend Johnny Rotten is he always knew and told the truth it was a disgrace how nobody listened it would’ve saved all them poor children it sickens me to the core
This man deserves far more credit than he was ever given, much respect 🙏
What an empty life you lead. You see heroism in your toilet bowl.
Why he said nothing at all a shitty quote yet by saying nothing in order to keep his career it allowed Savile to carry on . Lydon ain't no hero at all
He said one thing once in 78, then didn't go to the police, didn't go to the press. Nothing for years. Then he kept taking credit, he didn't do anything.
Davinia well said
@@DaviniaHill well said .like I've quoted he said and done fuck all yet keeps going on as if he exposed him
The more I learn about John Lydon, the more I loved him even more. He's the real deal that the elitists hated. We need more Johnny Rotten in this rotten world.
It 's the same with the fictional character Wolfie Smith ' if you watch the show Citizen Smith ' you can relate to his often ill fated tactics to fight the establishment all in the name of freedom.
John es una persona demasiado inteligente
Gosh! Johnny Rotten😩 Jimmy Saville 😫 Cliff Richard 😠 Give me a hermit's life any day.
Dont and cant like him. But I admire what he did.
Unfortunately, many ofthe people who Johnny Rotten inspired turned out to be unprincipled sellout and elitist fakes.
I really admire John Lydon for speaking out. It's a shame honest people like him were ignored. It shows how powerful they thought jimmy savile was. It was as if savile was head of the BBC
Totaly agree 4me its rule 303
this man is a hero! god bless him it's just really disgusting how the BBC enabled and protected a monster for as long as they did, and they still refuse to apologize about it
Beneath the surface John is a decent warm human being and very witty.
John
Bill Parry Rotten
They said the punks were scum and sleaze...we know better now
Piers Morgan on the other hand is an utter c**t
He does masses for charity, and doesn’t advertise it
Morgan almost shitting a brick for a moment that John was going to start naming others.
I wished he had!
I doubt that was a live show...
@@romelmunoz7957 It was recorded in front of a studio audience.
@@kevinrussell2718: yeah but I doubt it was broadcasted live, usually they'd record with a delay of some minutes in case someone says something it shouldn't be said... Well, in some cases I'm guessing.
@@romelmunoz7957 It would have been recorded, as all of these shows are. Talk shows here in the UK tend not to go out live.
I like how they said the 1978 footage was suppressed for "legal" reasons. They forgot to mention Jimmy Was best friends with our beloved King, who definitely knew about it if commoners knew...
You were right. You're always right Johnny. I hope you are ok xx
I love the smirk when he recognizes the clip. That's the face of vindication.
No, that's the smirk of a man receiving adulation for doing sod all.
"Did you ever try to do something about it?" So many people having a go at Lyndon over this, but let's not forget that "Jonny Rotton" was the most hated man in Britain and saville was the most loved, what chance did he have to do anything about this other than to voice his opinion, as he did?
Jimmy Saville was never the most loved man in Britain, that's total fantasyland.
All fuelled by the "media"
Lol he would of been "dealt with" just like diana and many others..
I never liked jimmy saville ....even as a child I recognised there was something creepy about him .
Exactly. He did do something about it by speaking out and what happened? His interview was banned and he was banned by the BBC for years. I fail to se what more he could have done. Lets not forget, this was 1970's Britain where public figures like nonceville could do no wrong and people like Johnny Lydon were looked on as a trouble makers
I used to dislike this guy until I grew up and realised his brutal honesty only offended the Establishment. I’m listening now Johnny!
And the BBC censored him, scum organisation
But he was supposed to be a rebel. You know, two fingers outside Buckingham Palace. He said he heard "rumours". Yet he doesn't have the balls to save other potential victims because the BBC said no? Wanker
You have a point but he done a lot more than the others around that time.
Yes I do.But he set himself up as 'the antichrist-an anarchist' didn't he? The BBC interviewed Savile with a view to sacking him and questioned him about the stories. But nobody came forwards. All those ones that now say 'oh we all knew' but were on the gravy train. And now he says 'I was right weren't I?' No. Because all you heard were rumours. And you did nothing. Like the rest of them.
absolute scum, i refuse to watch any program by them now.
And we all know they are the masters of keeping things quiet!
Notice that he mentions "and others" with a dangerous flicker, then keeps a close eye on Piers, who immediately moves on from what was clearly a lead...
It must have been sooooooo satisfying to sit there and be proven right.
Heros are never left behind nor Forgotten ❤❤❤ 🌹🌹🌹🌹
i was born in 71 and remember asking my mum if me and my younger brother could go on jim'll fix it, be about 77 78 and she just said NO there is something i dont like about that man, there is something that dont ring true! my mother knew just by seeing him around children on tv!
Prince Andrew appeared on that show. What a coincidence that he's a close friend of Epstein. The royal family are guilty once again of housing pedophiles. What a disgrace. British people worshipping pedophiles and funding their luxurious lifestyles, when are you going to wake up? Coincidence that Charles was an associate of Savile?
@@raydenwins1071 thing is you have any idea how many people the royals know or have met, and statistically speaking everyone of us is likely to meet a paedophile at some point or already know one who hasnt been exposed the difference is our lives are not under a microscope
My husband said he and his sister use to want to go on Jim'll Fix It! when they were young and my father in law gave them a long speech on people like him and how they are to familiar with children he said at the time he didn't understand the ins and out but as he got older he could see it for himself what his dad meant.
A lot of us knew but who listens to joe public and gut instincts
Remember how Saville had that chair with all the hidden features on that show. I wonder if that was a sly allusion by whichever BBC staffer designed it to suggest there were things about Saville that people didn't openly know.
Back in 1978 I was an old Fart, hated Johny and his Pistols "he will corrupt the young". Now I am a young oldie, because I realise the only corruption is in the Governments and the BBC. Johns right, and he helped free a lot of young people from a corrupt establishment. Cant say I took to his music, but, the words in his songs are so true. Respect for John.
We used to watch Jim'll Fix It as it was fun to watch and to see those children having their dreams come true. Back then it was very difficult to be able to do the things that those children wanted to do. But there was always a nagging feeling about him. No self respecting teenager or young adult would want to go on that show as they had already sussed him out. There were only three channels at the time and even when Channel Four first started you couldn't watch it on older TV sets as they only had three buttons. You could only watch them on the TV sets with a dial for the channels. And in Wales you could only get S4C unless you had a second aerial pointing to the Mendip receiver. So I missed out on the first few years of Channel Four. The BBC in the 80's hadn't moved on much from the 60's and 70's and in some ways it was better in the 70's with Play for Today, the Good Life, the Goodies, Steptoe and Son, Monty Python's Flying Circus and Fawlty Towers. So effectively in the 80's it was regressing rather than standing still with programmes to fit in with Thatcher's Britain and Mary Whitehouse. ITV hadn't moved on either. So unless you could get Channel Four there wasn't much to watch on TV then. Ironically Channel Four was ground breaking with its programmes such as Brookside and The Comic Strip in the 80's and Queer as Folk in the 90's yet they didn't knowingly employ paedophiles.
Not old, just an experienced teenager with wrinkles.
@Knobcore I’m a musician myself and back in the mid 90’s I wrote an anti-abortion song called “The Extortionist And The Abortionist” from an aborted foetus’ perspective. I haven’t recorded it, but I still have the lyrics to it.
@Knobcore if you Google it, Johnny says it wasn't pro or anti abortion.
@@dariowestern mate. I would love if you shared the lyrics ❤️
Actually many of us knew even earlier than this - back starting in 1977… I worked for a housing association where a number of wardens (sort of caretakers), made formal complaints about him, and no one did anything at all. It wasn’t news. Very very sad indeed
Johnny rotten to be are next prime minister he noses a lot about things and he doesn't look down on people who haven't got any thing he not big headed and he would speak his mind and the rest of wouldn't like it so let's us people start voting for Johnny rotten he get this country back on it's feet he was good in the pistols and he be good at being the prime minister God bless you Johnny rotten . YOU LEGEND
Well done Johnny for calling Saville out
John Lydon is a very intelligent, very articulate, very outspoken, brutally honest, and a very interesting man...His life is the stuff of legends, and there's never a boring moment, when he's around.
DJPaulgee1.... AHHHH............NO!!!!
Yet you disrespect him by calling him by the name he does not like. Strange
The guy is a genius and very intelligent and honest..+....he knew what was happening at buckingham palace too
That sir is 100% spot on !✌✌🇬🇧🇬🇧
Honest? He was on BBC and TOTPs in 1979. He claims he was banned from BBC radio but this is nonsense as they were playing PIL tracks throughout the late 70s. And why would they ban him from BBC radio and then have him performing on TOTPs?
Great he spoke up. Very sad that his remarks were all brushed aside and innocent children had to suffer.
not just that john was banned by the bbc!! terrible.
Why didn't he try again?
Who’d have thought Savile’s best friend would be sitting on the throne 👑
I love John Lydon, he is so bang on.
I've never been sure about Johnny Rotten, but then you hear this and realise he's a righteous man, wow
He's a good man. He just had a mouth that was a little too wide for the time he was most famous in. He's had his faults of course, but who hasn't? At least his faults weren't anything as heinous as Saville's eh?
Graeme Pryce I'm with you Graeme
Mikail Elchanovanich Yeah, spot on mate.
Mikail Elchanovanich True. If everybody was just good and behaved ( and played their music at reasonable volumes ) the world would be a very boring place!
He's an infesting guy, especially now. Very clever, wonderful to hear in interviews.
John Lydon has my utter respect. A man who tells it like it is.
It just goes to show - if Johnny knew about Savile, the management at the BBC certainly did. Why weren't they as vocal as Johnny?
@upturnedblousecollar5811 They didn't want to lose their well paid jobs.
He has an honesty almost to the point of brutality. I know he sometimes likes to play up to the media, but he's always worth listening to. And he's not a hypocrite like some, those suppressing Savile's seediness, for instance.
Lydon did not out Jimmy Savile in 1978, nor was he banned from the BBC Lydon spoke of Savile in an interview for radio in 1978 that was never broadcast until after Savile's death. The interview from 1978 can be found here on KZhead which Lydon says he wants to kill 200 famous people including Mick Jagger and Savile. Even a broken clock is right twice a day. Lydon was not banned from the BBC in 1978. He was banned from live interviews. All the videos below can be found on KZhead He is on Juke Box Jury in 1979. TOTP in 1979 - Deaths Disco TOTP in 81 - Flowers of Romance Savile died on 29 Oct 2011. His crimes were exposed nearly a year later by the ITV Exposure programme broadcast on 3 Oct 2012. Lydon included the interview as a bonus track on re-release of the first album PiL in 2013
Spot on
Rude people have hearts of gold and balls of steal because they don't have to hide behind the facade of fake politeness that consumes your soul.
Sometimes. A lot of the time they're just assholes.
MaSsIvE respect to the "Rotten one" for outing the GENUINELY ROTTEN SOULS AT THE BBC. HE'S A GOOD MAN.. I'll never forget this.
Johnny Rotten was and is a very honest person. He was straight up about his own life, and was very decent to people who worked with him. He was an indefatigable performer, once going onstage when he had the flu, running offstage between songs to throw up, telling fans he could only do one encore because he had the flu. This was in a small club, and the fans said, “Naw, you’re sick, go take car3 of yourself. You should have said so sooner!” Next time he played that club, he did a 30 min encore set to thank his fans. The whole Jimmy Saville/Gary Glitter debacle was known about on both sides of the pond, and tolerated if not encouraged, why, I could never figure out. Shameful. Kudos to Johnny for having the backbone to stand up and say when kids are being preyed upon by powerful (or any) pervs.
I saw him perform more than once, and he was no angel! I went to Leeds Fan Club (known as the eff club, obviously) with my sister, to see PIL among others. He spent the 20 minute set with his back to the audience growling into the mike. We didn't care too much. I was a huge fan and that was the spirit of the day.
I wish I knew who Johnny meant when he said _"And it wasn't just Savile, a whole bunch of them"_
Dear dear,as children we didn't have a television set till I was twelve but I had a friend who watched it avidly and loved the Jimmy Savile show I watched it with her but found him totally weird we didn't know much about pedophiles at that time so I couldn't really identify what I found so weird and possibly it was just revulsion how many children were taken in by him and the fact that it was covered up by the BBC and the establishment at that time even the Royal family were fooled its a deplorable situation that was allowed to happen thank you John Lydon
@@upturnedblousecollar5811Yes. He didn't stand up to any of them at all. Including Saville. He just muttered that he knew something and then shut up about it..He is no hero.
imagine how many kids would of been saved if they had listened to john
scotty101ire *would HAVE been
Imagine how many kids will be saved if they actually investigated Epsteins pedo network.....
@LGR Car Videos and More! You would have been non-existent if your dad had pulled out.*
Don't think it was broadcast
None.
Similar response when Sinead Oconnor dissed the pope! Ruined her carreer but how right was she!! RIP beautiful girl❤
All of you saying; why didn't he say something ?He did!! But he was silenced.And more to the point, society are brainwashed sheep.Have you tried to tell ignorant people the truth? They laugh at you and think that you are crazy.
+Clark Graham Lots of people knew what was going on but trying to be a whistle blower would leave you with out a carrer. It's not that people are sheep, they are well aware of the situation but want to keep their jobs. An Mr Rotten was one of those people.
Paul H I was being a bit harsh. Yea, it seems like a lot more has gone on than I ever thought. I always thought there was a lot more abuse than was seen back in the 80's, and I it still happens.
And Esther Rancid of course.
Polly Potter You're right, and it is so depressing. It's all been fix now right ? The thing that I see is that the major paedos, ie Savile, and MP's only ever get caught when they are dead or dying. It's a brilliant trick. Oh the other one is to be a priest.
+Polly Potter Yes Polly you are correct as soon as anyone in the Showbiz business attempts to expose the abuses openly perpetrated against innocent young people they are ostracized. Its a case of career over all the doors shut as you become a danger to the established practices. It is not just showbiz either I tried to report Government Officials/Employees and found the machine turned on me. Read my book on Amazon 'Psychic Screw'.
The clarity and deep sadness in his eyes when he hears his interview is heartbreaking. He knew, he tried to say somthing and now it hurts him.
Of course, which is why he didn't actually say anything in the interview, wasn't banned from the BBC and continued to appear on its programmes, enjoyed several decades of being interviewed in print, on radio and TV and...never said anything about it at all.
@@gavpowell7864 he knew there was no point. The media can control EVERYTHING people try and speak up about. If he tried to speak out again, it would just be edited out. The past couple of years have shown this very well...
@@gavpowell7864 Except he WAS banned from the BBC for a time, as this video makes quite clear. And even these allusions he DID make regarding Savile's behaviour were censored and never allowed onto the airwaves. Within that political climate, he was in no position to say or do anything more that would either be published, or be taken seriously.
@@gavpowell7864 100% agree, people painting Lydon as a hero for doing fuck all are ridiculous, he's as guilty as the rest of them
@@firedoesnotdiscriminate What the hell could he do beyond saying his piece? He's a musician, not a criminal prosecutor. By that logic, you are as guilty as the rest of them too!
Proud of you for this John
John Lydon a very decent fella , and is owed a huge formal apology from the BBC ,
They protected the cigar muncher for too many years.
He's 'one of them'. The guy in BBC who was CEO at the time now works for the New York Times.
It is not Johnny who is "Rotten."
The rotten list is very long
Search YT for ITNJ jon wedger this will explain how they get away with it. When police are part of the cover up, they are part of the problem. But i must say the vast majority are good.
HRH !
@Kev Dale He said he wanted to kill 200 people, then he said there were 5 people he wouldn't kill. Doesn't make Jimmy Savile very special to him does it?
Really well said.
Love this man, so honest. Total Respect to you John Lydon 🤟🏼♥️❌️❌️❌️❌️
John Lydon always a teller of truth, a genuine British hero!!!!👍👍👍👍👍
The most outspoken and honest man. Greatest respect for Johnny Rotten
Why would it be libel, he wrote nothing, it would be slander, if anything.
+Matthew Collins Libel laws also apply to broadcast media i.e. it doesn't need to be in writing for it to be a libel.
+I Am Incorrigible in this case its a recording of a conversation, it would be slander
Matthew Collins Until broadcast by the BBC, at which point it would become a libel.
+I Am Incorrigible Correct.
+Matthew Collins It's hardly the point.
the truth will always come out no matter how long it takes salute to you Sir
This country would be a better place if they had listened to Johnny.
They should have cast Johnny Rotten in the Pirates of the Caribbean films. He would make a great pirate.
I think he's virtually impossible to work with. Couldn't take direction for anything.
My god, yes. Or Drop dead Fred even
I think the old boy would never accept to play in any disney Hollywood production Shitmovie
Jaimie Rain i thought i was the only one to see that movie...most because of my obsessionwith phoebe cates
@Laurent Peraldi. Agree, I doubt he'd ever sell out.
Piers knows about all of it..
Of course he did.
I knew about Jimmy Seville in 1975 when my cousin (who was working at Stoke Mandeville) told me. I didn’t believe him at the time but it lodged in my memory. And if l knew then, thousands of others must have also known.
"Not only him, but a whole bunch of them" GIVE US THE LIST
It can't be publicly given out. Those against whom allegations have been made cannot be named until they've been charged.
“Cigar muncher” 😂 he manages to pull out a hilarious image even when talking about something as tragic and serious as this.
I love John Lydon. Always spoke the truth, and the ugly truth offended those in charge. Long live Johnny Rotten, he's an icon.
Telling the world that a national hero is a major criminal on TV is a pretty punk thing to do.
The problem is that it’s still going on
Mr. Lydon was absolutely right! Good for you, Johnny!
Savile said that Mountbatten introduced him to the Royal family back in the early 1960s as a 'useful contact'. How could a commoner DJ be a 'useful contact' for the Royals at any time?
probably how Prince andrew got into epsteins far ranging club eh?
Because he had access to their drug of choice. Young children. So, he was like any drug dealer. A useful contact 😡they are all despicable. Yes all of them.
Supply and Demand, It's the basis of all Service Industry. You got the money and the prestige, I got the product. Saville wasn't in Buck House or Windsor playing records and CD's. As for Mountbatten, if only the world knew the truth.
Try and name a part of British society that is not infected or run by paedophiles, Royalty, the Police, The CSA, The Church, The BBC, Child Welfare Services, Politicians, Celebrities, the Media etc etc Maybe the Army and Navy but I doubt it. i often wonder how Islam managed to get such a strong foothold in the UK with its acceptance of child brides, I wonder no more. The Uk is riddled with Paedofiles like a cancer. if all the Paedophiles in the UK died suddenly we would have very few people left in any position of power. it's a sickness that destroys lives.
@@designer-garb572 The more I study the matter, the less inclined I am to disagree with your depressing, yet defensible suggestion.
The BBC knew all along, The Royal family had a close relationship with Saville
@Chippanapatchi yeah the truth comes out when it's too late
He is integrity personified.
Honestly, Piers Morgan probably would’ve been one of the biggest gaslighters had he been in media when Johnny Rotten originally spoke out
He never spoke out at all Eliza, he only said what everyone knew , I'm a massive pistols lydon fan , but if he knew anything at all he should've went to police papers media but he never for sake of his career , in saying nothing it allowed them to carry on abusing if I knew an abuser or abusers I would've spoken out and fuck the consequences . He said and did nothing .
@@joestrummer3100JR was seen as a rebel and trouble,who would have believed him?
It doesn't matter who would've believed him just by speaking out and airing it in public would've been enough for anybody to take notice . He said nothing and now wants to take all credit he's a fake . And I am a big lydon fan but he needs to stop this shit now
@@stum8374 don't know until you try. JR was famous back then so if he said something, it could have made front page news and been investigated.
Morgan I'm sure has his own skeletons in the cupboard so to speak. He's another snake in the grass.
See Morgan swallow hard after Lydon mentions not just Saville, but a whole bunch of em.... Classic panic reaction.
Yeah I watched again and didn't see that happen at all
I think he means 1:58
Well said, Johnnie!
The BBC should be put on trial for protecting their top earner.
Did you all catch the most important part of John's statement? "Not only him(Saville) but a whole bunch of them. A statement so up to date today its scary!
A bunch he didn't give a name to. I wonder why?
@@Torquemadia Because, as he said, "libel."
@@godfreyharper8171 So he didn't "tell the truth" about anyone then, did he?
Torquemadia sound like you’re defending pedophiles mate. Sick bastard.
@@cyd2416 Possibly. If you are a simpleton.
John spoke honestly throughout his life, something which is sadly lacking today with most of the media.
Except on the TV adverts.
@@charlestaylor3027and politicians
@@Heygoodlooking-lk9kg politicians lie also so
Johnny Rotten is no hero for speaking out, he should have raised his concerns with the Old Bill. Not doing so allowed Saville to ruin countless more lives.
Name ONE life that Savile ruined.
@@stevefowler3398 You must be a right Sicko to ask such a ridiculous question 😮
@@KryptonitetoallBS far from it. Trial by media, with ZERO evidence is abhorrent. But you believe what you want. Are you ready for your next vax?
@@KryptonitetoallBS Incidentally, you still have not named ONE SINGLE VICTIM. Because there are none!
@@stevefowler3398 You're clearly a WUM. A very, very sick one!!!
Well done John for speaking out
Johnny was, is and will continue to be the absolute Man! I have had he and Sid tattooed on me for over 30 years. Even as a kid in the seventies and eighties being told he was no good, I knew he spoke the truth
Absolute sickening that Saville and his cronies were allowed to get away with it and the BBC, Police and Government did nothing about it. Makes you think who else was involved and who got away with it.
The fact it didn't come out until he died should tell you everything. The police went after the easy targets the higher ups in the BBC, NHS and probably the Police Service got away with it I have no doubt it went higher than its been reported how else do you explain the cover ups and lack of police action over the years all the higher ups were in on it with him or Savile knew some of their other dirty washing
The very thing that Johnny Lydon was alluding to.
It's been looked into, Thatcher was keeping the police out of it.
They was all involved the fu*King lot of them!!!
Well he’s friends with royals an politicians an to get close to the royals the mi5 know the ins an outs of your arsehole so he had files on the people in power he’s even stated it to Louis Theroux every one turned a blind eye shame but nothing has changed we all know Andrew is a nonce
What a gutsy man you are Mr Lydon! If only this earth had more like you.
There are many others but they get suppressed by the evil ones with the powers to destroy their lives. Peace to the World 🙏🏴🇬🇧
Jonny Rotten was always for me a special guy... He is just a cool guy.... He stays always on the ground and knows where he comes from...
The big problem is Johnny never ever had anything nice to say about anyone.. he lived up to being an anarchist in everyway back then … what he said about Saville would obviously go unnoticed…. Now if someone ‘nice’ had said it it would have got noticed
BBC in the 80’s: JIMMY IS INNOCENT! BBC now: HOW DID WE MISS THE SIGNS!
BBC knew exactly what he was
They were definitely protecting that monster
They didn’t miss them, they covered them up.
Mind is the bind that blinds. edit: I meant to type: Money is the bind that blinds.