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John Lydon Biography
John Lydon is one of the most popular and richest Rock Singer who was born on January 31, 1956 in Holloway, England, United Kingdom. British singer who is better known by the stage name Johnny Rotten. He was the lead vocalist for the punk rock group The Sex Pistols.
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John Joseph Lydon (born 31 January 1956), also known by his stage name Johnny Rotten, is an English singer, songwriter and musician. He is best known as the lead singer of the late-1970s British punk band the Sex Pistols, which lasted from 1975 until 1978, and again for various revivals during the 1990s and 2000s. He is also the lead singer of post-punk band Public Image Ltd (PiL), which he founded and fronted from 1978 until 1993, and again since 2009.
Dutch songwriter and translator Jan Rot has been telling an alternative origin story. He claims that he met Lydon at the Marquee Club in the mid-1970s: “We struck up a conversation. He told me his name was John, so I explained that my name, literally translated to English, was John Rotten. That kid, John Lydon, who later became the lead singer of The Sex Pistols, thought that was very funny. ‘That is a great fucking name’ he said.”
He got married Nora Forster, the German Heiress of a publishing company. He adopted two of her children from an earlier relationship.
| Name | John Lydon |
| First Name | John |
| Last Name | Lydon |
| Occupation | Rock Singer |
| Birthday | January 31 |
| Birth Year | 1956 |
| Place of Birth | Holloway |
| Home Town | England |
| Birth Country | United Kingdom |
| Birth Sign | Capricorn |
| Full/Birth Name | |
| Father | Not Available |
| Mother | Not Available |
| Siblings | Not Available |
| Spouse | Not Known |
| Children(s) | Not Available |
Ethnicity, religion & political views
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Lydon was interested in dub music. McLaren was said to have been upset when Lydon revealed during a radio interview that his influences included progressive experimentalists like Magma, Can, Captain Beefheart and Van der Graaf Generator. Tensions between Lydon and bassist Glen Matlock arose. The reasons for this are disputed, but Lydon claimed in his autobiography that he believed Matlock to be too white-collar and middle-class and that Matlock was “always going on about nice things like the Beatles”. Matlock stated in his own autobiography that most of the tension in the band, and between himself and Lydon, was orchestrated by McLaren. Matlock quit and as a replacement, Lydon recommended his school friend John Simon Ritchie, who used the stage name Sid Vicious. Although Ritchie was an incompetent bassist, McLaren agreed that he had the look the band wanted: pale, emaciated, spike-haired, with ripped clothes and a perpetual sneer. In 1977, the Sex Pistols released their only and highly influential studio album Never Mind the Bollocks, Here’s the Sex Pistols.
John Lydon Net Worth
John Lydon is one of the richest Rock Singer from United Kingdom. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, John Lydon's net worth $1 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)
He was employed as an London Minicab driver.
He was as a character in 1983’s Italian Crime film Copkiller.
John Joseph Lydon was born in London on 31 January 1956. His parents, Eileen Lydia (née Barry) (died 1978) and John Christopher Lydon, were working-class emigrants from Ireland who moved into a two-room Victorian flat in Benwell Road, in the Holloway area of north London. The flat is adjacent to the Highbury Stadium, the former home of Premier League football club Arsenal F.C. of which Lydon has been an avid fan since the age of four. At the time, the area was largely impoverished, with a high crime rate and a population consisting predominantly of working-class Irish and Jamaican people. Lydon spent summer holidays in his mother’s native County Cork, where he suffered name-calling for having an English accent, a prejudice he claims he still receives today even though he travels under an Irish passport.
| Net Worth | $1 Million |
| Salary | Under Review |
| Source of Income | Rock Singer |
| Cars | Not Available |
| House | Living in own house. |
In a 1978 interview broadcast on BBC Radio 1, Lydon alluded to the sexual abuses committed by Jimmy Savile, as well as the suppression of negative information about Savile by mainstream social forces, many decades in advance of it becoming a public scandal. Lydon stated: “I’d like to kill Jimmy Savile; I think he’s a hypocrite. I bet he’s into all kinds of seediness that we all know about, but are not allowed to talk about. I know some rumours.” He added: “I bet none of this will be allowed out.” After the interviewer suggested libel might be an issue, Lydon replied, “Nothing I’ve said is libel.”
In 1978, Lydon formed the post-punk outfit Public Image Ltd (PiL). The first lineup of the band included bassist Jah Wobble and former The Clash guitarist Keith Levene. They released the albums Public Image: First Issue (1978), Metal Box (1979) and the live album Paris au Printemps (1980). Wobble left and Lydon and Levene made The Flowers of Romance (1981). It followed by This Is What You Want… This Is What You Get (1984) featuring Martin Atkins on drums (he had also appeared on Metal Box and The Flowers of Romance); it featured their biggest hit, “This Is Not a Love Song”, which hit No. 5 in the UK Singles Chart in 1983.
Height, Weight & Body Measurements
John Lydon height 5 ft 8 in John weight Not Known & body measurements will update soon.
| Height | 5 ft 8 in |
| Weight | Not Known |
| Body Measurements | Under Review |
| Eye Color | Not Available |
| Hair Color | Not Available |
| Feet/Shoe Size | Not Available |
In 1975, Lydon was among a group of youths who regularly hung around Malcolm McLaren and Vivienne Westwood’s fetish clothing shop SEX. McLaren had returned from a brief stint travelling with American protopunk band the New York Dolls, and he was working on promoting a new band formed by Steve Jones, Glen Matlock and Paul Cook called the Sex Pistols. McLaren was impressed with Lydon’s ragged look and unique sense of style, particularly his orange hair and modified Pink Floyd T-shirt (with the band members’ eyes scratched out and the words I Hate scrawled in felt-tip pen above the band’s logo). After tunelessly singing Alice Cooper’s “I’m Eighteen” to the accompaniment of the shop’s jukebox, Lydon was chosen as the band’s frontman. In 1977, the band released “God Save the Queen” during the week of Queen Elizabeth II’s Silver Jubilee. At the time, August 1977, Lydon commented: “Turn the other cheek too often and you get a razor through it.”
After the Sex Pistols disbanded in 1978, Lydon founded his own band, Public Image Ltd, which was far more experimental in nature and described in a 2005 NME review as “arguably the first post-rock group.” The band produced eight albums and a string of singles, including “Public Image”, “Death Disco”, and “Rise”, before they went on hiatus in 1993, reforming in 2009. In subsequent years, Lydon has hosted television shows in the UK, US, and Belgium, appeared on I’m a Celebrity … Get Me Out of Here! in the UK, appeared in advertisements on UK television promoting Dairy Crest, a brand of British butter, written two autobiographies, and produced some solo musical work, such as the album Psycho’s Path (1997). In 2005, he released a compilation album, The Best of British £1 Notes.
Who is John Lydon Dating?
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Relationships Record: We have no records of past relationships for John Lydon. You may help us to build the dating records for John Lydon!Vicious’ chaotic relationship with girlfriend Nancy Spungen, and his worsening heroin addiction, caused a great deal of friction among the band members, particularly with Lydon, whose sarcastic remarks often exacerbated the situation. Lydon closed the final Sid Vicious-era Sex Pistols concert in San Francisco’s Winterland in January 1978 with a rhetorical question to the audience: “Ever get the feeling you’ve been cheated?” Shortly thereafter, McLaren, Jones, and Cook went to Brazil to meet and record with former train robber Ronnie Biggs. Lydon declined to go, deriding the concept as a whole and feeling that they were attempting to make a hero out of a criminal who attacked a train driver and stole “working-class money”.
Facts & Trivia
John Ranked on the list of most popular Rock Singer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United Kingdom. John Lydon celebrates birthday on January 31 of every year.
Lydon married Nora Forster, a publishing heiress from Germany, in 1979. He was the stepfather of Forster’s daughter Ari Up, who had been the lead singer in the post-punk band The Slits until her death in 2010. In 2000, Lydon and Nora became legal guardians of Ari’s twin teenaged boys; as Lydon explained “[Ari] let them run free. They couldn’t read, write or form proper sentences. One day Ari said she couldn’t cope with them any more. I suggested they came to us because I wasn’t having them abandoned. They gave us hell, but I loved having kids around.” In 2010, they became guardians of Ari’s third child, Wilton. Lydon and Forster primarily live in Venice, California where they have resided since the early 1980s, but keep a residence in London. In 2018, Lydon revealed that Forster was in the mid-stages of Alzheimer’s Disease.
Does Lydon like Pink Floyd?
John Lydon, notorious for his hatred of Pink Floyd, not only loves Dark Side of the Moon – he’d like to head into the studio with the band. The PiL-leader and Sex Pistol recently revealed that he turned down the invitation to perform with Floyd frontman Dave Gilmour in Los Angeles, fearing he would look “pretentious”.
What age is John Lydon?
66 years (January 31, 1956)
Can John Lydon play an instrument?
As you’d fully expect John writes all the material himself, but in a marked departure from PiL he also plays almost all the instruments himself too. You name it – keyboards, accordions, toilet rolls, cardboard boxes – anything that came to hand, and sounded right.
Is Lydon still in PiL?
| Born | 31 January 1956 Holloway, London, England |
| Genres | Punk rock post-punk alternative dance |
| Occupation(s) | Singer songwriter actor |
| Years active | 1975–present |
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| Publication status | Accepted/In press – 2021 |
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