Never Mind the Bollocks.
One of the enduring on-line Savile myths is that the arch anarchist ‘Johnny Rotten’, as John Lydon became known, ‘warned the BBC about Savile’ in 1978 – but the interview was ‘censored by the BBC’. The sub-text being ‘If only they’d listened to Johnny rather than banning him from the BBC’.
What he actually said at the time was:
“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.”
Which considering he also wanted to ‘kill Mick Jagger’ in the same interview, was scarcely advance warning of the deluge of allegations which were to engulf Jimmy Savile. Never mind the paucity of information in this supposedly ‘banned’ BBC interview, Rotten, after several expensive visits to a California dentist, was recast as ‘Sage of the Age’, in an interview with Jon Snow on Chanel 4 news in October 2014. by which time it had become de rigueur to have ‘known all about Jimmy Savile’.
Jon Snow: One of the things which is really interesting is your view about Jimmy Savile and your knowledge at the time that it was going on
Lydon : Unfortunately I think all of us knew what was going on with the BBC.
Jon Snow: as bad as we now know it was?
Lydon: Yeah, we knew we all knew. We knew when you go to Top of the Pops what you were facing. It was common knowledge. But it wasn’t common knowledge in the media.
Now Lydon/Rotten as an expert on ‘what went on at Top of the Pops’ is an interesting experiment in Chinese Whispers; the Sex Pistols were famously banned by the BBC, following a spirited rendition of all the dirty words they knew in the direction of Bill Grundy on the Today programme. When they followed this up by releasing their latest oeuvre ‘God Save the Queen’ with similar lyrics just days before the Silver Jubilee, the BBC had had enough – and ordered silence on the airwaves from them.
Bill Grundy was yesterday suspended by Thames Television for two weeks after being accused of “sloppy journalism” over his controversial interview on Wednesday with the Sex Pistols pop group.
The Independent Broadcasting Authority has accepted assurances from Thames that the incident, in which foul language was used by the group, was regrettable but unavoidable.
The BBC issued a statement saying that it played records on radio according to their musical merit “regardless of arbitrary classifications”. “Radio One considers that some records now being issued which are described as punk rock are arguably not in this category.” A Sex Pistols record was not being played on daytime radio programmes, although it had been heard on the specialised John Peel late night show.
How could they have managed to overcome this ban and spend time in the Top of the Pops studio acquiring their in-depth knowledge of Jimmy Savile and his alleged misdeeds? They didn’t, quite simply.
The first time their name was ever mentioned on Top of the Pops was in 1977. The BBC had a contractual agreement to ‘run through the top 20 records every week’. In July of 1977, the band’s (autobiographical?) offering of ‘Pretty Vacant’ rose to No 7 in the charts, no doubt ably assisted by the publicity effected by the ban. The BBC responded by showing a promotional video, rather than inviting the group to their studios. The band weren’t happy.
The single was so popular the promo video was controversially shown on BBC’s hitmaking ‘Top Of The Pops’ TV show. Against the band’s wishes and many BBC staff. ‘Top Of The Pops’ had previously banned the Pistols and the band were against the video being shown. However, somehow the tape found its way to the BBC, with fingers later being pointed at the record company and the band’s then management.
The band never set foot in the studios, only their promo tape did. Even if the promo tape had magical properties by which it could beam back news of sexual skulduggery to the moral guardians known as the Sex Pistols, it would have faced another hurdle.
That episode was hosted by David Jensen…
14-7-77: Presenter: David Jensen(NEW) THE REAL THING – Love’s Such A Wonderful Thing
(24) RITA COOLIDGE – We’re All Alone (video)
(41) THE SAINTS – This Perfect Day
(21) THE COMMODORES – Easy (danced to by Legs & Co)
(30) DAVE EDMUNDS – I Knew The Bride
(NEW) JIGSAW – If I Have To Go Away
(29) SUPERTRAMP – Give A Little Bit (video)
(NEW) CILLA BLACK – I Wanted To Call It Off
(7) THE SEX PISTOLS – Pretty Vacant (video)
(1) HOT CHOCOLATE – So You Win Again
(2) EMERSON, LAKE & PALMER – Fanfare For The Common Man (and credits)
In the October showing of Top of the Pops, again hosted by David Jensen, their “Holiday in the Sun’ was at No 8, but they didn’t even get a video this time, they were played out along with the credits…
The Sex Pistols were not to actually set foot in a Top of the Pops studio until 28th June 1996, when they finally played live to help promote their ‘Filthy Lucre’ tour (and pay for Rotten’s teeth). The show was hosted by Gina G, an Australian singer – not Savile. By 1996 the filming studio had been transferred to Elstree – so the Sex Pistols never had cause to set foot in the BBC TV centre…
By this time I would have been completely mystified as to how Johnny Rotten came to be interviewed on a serious news programme as an expert on Jimmy Savile and the goings on in a studio and a programme that he knew nothing about, were it not that my Googling had turned up one of Moor Larkin’s excellent blogs. Moor, hero that he is, had actually gone to the trouble of reading Johnny Rotten’s biography, and there he had noticed something strange – Rotten had only ever set eyes on Savile on the TV!
Apparently there has been an old audio interview of me from 1978 doing the rounds lately online, where I’m talking about Jimmy Savile and basically saying “everybody knows he’s a child molester, but we’re not allowed to say”.From a very young age, looking at him on Top Of The Pops, you knew that was just a wrong ‘un. And he was always having a smirk and ‘letting you know’. You could see it in his eyes what he was really doing…
That is one of the fascinating things about the Savile saga; here is a highly paid, serious, supposedly investigative journalist – Jon Snow – interviewing a man that he believes will add gravitas to the media construct that is ‘Savile the serial predator’; yet when you drill down into the story, you find that he was talking to an ageing punk rocker who had never met the man, never been on one of his shows, and based his opinion on having thought he had ‘funny eyes’ when he saw him on television as a child. Should Jon Snow be suspended for ‘sloppy journalism’ or do those standards no longer apply?
Yesterday I spent three hours with a man who spent almost fifteen years in daily contact with Savile, and who is still mystified as to how he could have allegedly committed ‘so many offences’ without him ever suspecting for one moment that he was a paedophile or a sexual predator.
Such a gulf between those who knew him well and are incredulous at the allegations – and those who never met him but are spittle-flecked at ‘what he got away with’ – based on what they have read in the media or seen in interviews….
- IlovetheBBC
August 12, 2015 at 9:15 am -
Johnny Rotten’s opinion is worth no more or less than my father’s, who fulminated at every appearance of Savile on his TV screen. ‘Just look at him!’ he would explode when asked what the problem was, ‘anyone can see there’s something wrong with him!’
He died before Savile became the ogre of our age, but wouldn’t have been a bit surprised. The reason people have believed every single allegation, without any investigation and no matter how extreme, is because he looked like a right weirdo.- Moor Larkin
August 12, 2015 at 9:40 am -
My mum told me that my dad used to say the same, but seeing as I never remember my dad being in the room when TotP was on, it must have pre-dated that programme even. Maybe it went right back to Savile’s earliest appearances on Juke Box Jury. Long hair on a man was more than enough to mark him out as weird and perhaps even… girlish…
The BBC execs in 1965 found Jim nauseating too…
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-7qw9pLmLqOY/UfA6Lmjgp0I/AAAAAAAAChQ/Hv33qIewrfs/s640/image002.jpg- Chris
August 12, 2015 at 11:46 am -
people seem to be forgetting Alf Garnett was an archetypal bigot too….
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-yv4Nmrwtg4- Moor Larkin
August 12, 2015 at 12:04 pm -
Blimey, Alison Saunders has the last word…
- Alex
August 12, 2015 at 3:36 pm -
My dad IS Alf Garnett!
- Moor Larkin
August 12, 2015 at 3:53 pm -
Count yourself lucky Alison aint your mum.
- Moor Larkin
- Moor Larkin
- Chris
- Anne.
August 12, 2015 at 8:41 pm -
Some thought the same about Christopher Jefferies – that he was creepy weird etc., turned out he was totally innocent of the murder of his tenant and was able to sue. But most believed the allegations about him at the time all the same.
- Moor Larkin
- Chris
August 12, 2015 at 9:48 am -
Jon Snow appeared to have it written into his contract that whoever he interviewed for Ch4 News – whether relevant or not – he would ask them about “Savile”.
In 1978, Johnny Rotten/John Lydon hated everyone, particularly those he identified as ‘establishment’, which as we now know only too well with ‘punk’ meant tinpot entertainers were lumped in with politicians. Curiously, considering his willingness to profer idiotic revisionism in 2013, he also called out the very ‘middle class journalists’ we all know & despise here when talking about his fellow ‘punk icons’
http://retardedkingdom.blogspot.co.uk/2015/02/the-auntie-fascists.html- Misa
August 12, 2015 at 11:09 am -
Chris, I hope our landlady will forgive my asking this, she might just forgive my asking you…
Would PiL not have appeared on ToTP?
Might you be able to confirm whether Savile might have hosted on of those shows?- Moor Larkin
August 12, 2015 at 11:17 am -
Mike Read at the very start
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GArlaBr7E6c - Chris
August 12, 2015 at 11:25 am -
PIL appeared on the show during ‘The Savile Years’ twice – July 1979 to promote Death Disco & April 1981 to promote Flowers Of Romance, and as it happens both appearances on editions hosted by Mike Read. http://retardedkingdom.blogspot.co.uk/2014/06/the-death-of-cool.html
I think the point still stands – Johnny’s angry outburst pre-dated any visits to TVC for TOTP and he never encountered Jimmy Savile anyway, so the man who regularly recounts how he was effectively run out of the country purely due to his media reputation & appearance is a complete hypocrite to denounce JS for his media reputation & appearance.
He was also forced to eat his words shortly after declaring he ‘want(ed) to kill Mick Jagger’ when Jagger – without courting any publicity – paid for his beleaguered friend Sid Vicious’s legal representation when McLaren & co abandoned him in light of the Nancy Spungeon murder charge, which does kind of damage his reputation as a retrospective all-knowing judge of character (then & now)- Misa
August 12, 2015 at 11:31 am -
Thanks, Chris. How decent of Jagger too.
- Moor Larkin
August 12, 2015 at 11:43 am -
Jimmy was a good friend to the Stones…
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-KrvD4Imj0Hg/VKHH-vHNIAI/AAAAAAAAF-A/VRsdk2jysNY/s1600/image002.jpg
- Moor Larkin
- Misa
- Moor Larkin
- Misa
- Engineer
August 12, 2015 at 10:18 am -
John Lydon, eh?
My impression of the Sex Pistols in their heyday was that they were a bunch of attention-seeking idiots, probably manipulated by a clever manager. Googling Mr Lydon about five minutes ago leads me to slightly modify my opinion. Apparently he is now married to a German heiress, and whilst usually resident in California, keeps a residence in London as well. Consequently, my assessment of him as being an idiot is slightly wide of the mark; he’s clearly done very nicely thank-you out of his attention seeking. Indeed, he’s as close to being part of the entertainment establishment as anybody, so his jumping on the ‘Savile rumours’ bandwagon is no real surprise.
Jon Snow? Self-regarding media toss-pot. Pardon my French.
- Moor Larkin
August 12, 2015 at 10:28 am -
Getting down wiv de kidz…
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/watch-jon-snow-getting-stoned-5178266
“Snow imbibed two balloons of vapour during the Home Office-approved, NHS-supported trial of skunk, under Professor Val Curran.”One imagines the blocked dwarf wishes he could have got his gear on de nashnul welf, back in the day…
- Chris
August 12, 2015 at 10:49 am -
I cannot help but see some media parallel between Snow’s insistence on asking every Tom Tit ‘about Savile’ and Mr Jones hashtagging every abuse-related tweet (no matter to whom it’s about) ‘#Savile’
- Chris
- Moor Larkin
- Misa
August 12, 2015 at 10:31 am -
Do you think if one day Britain discovered incontrovertible evidence that JS was innocent, the nation would spend a day mildly surprised, occasionally pausing to raise an eyebrow, and then wake up the next day as though none of this happened, the whole episode completely erased from the national memory? It is all just a strange dream, isn’t it?
- Moor Larkin
August 12, 2015 at 10:34 am -
It would only take one media victim to blow the gaff on the lot of them.
Gotta be a few quid in that for someone surely?
- Moor Larkin
- Jim
August 12, 2015 at 10:53 am -
Fascinating. I tend to think Misa is spot on as well.
- Chris
August 12, 2015 at 11:12 pm -
“guess it’s time for the judgement day”
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WhNM2K8cmU8
- Chris
- Sam
August 12, 2015 at 11:25 am -
My late best friend was a driver for pop groups and celebrities. He got so fed up with Lydon once who he said was the biggest dickhead he had met out of all the rock’n’rollers he had driven, he stopped the car on the M1 and booted him out Apparently Lydon suddenly reverted to being a gormless young man, his phony ‘rebellious’ streak having evaporated he begged not to be left by the side of road. My pal, an Eastender said it was highly pleasurable to drive off and see the prat in his rear window standing alone on the highway as cars roared by and took delight in the idea of Johnny Rotten trying to hitch-hike.
By contrast he said Sid Vicious was absolutely delightful and quite the gentleman. - Bandini
August 12, 2015 at 12:52 pm -
As I commented on Moor’s excellent article at the time, it seems a bit harsh of Lydon/Rotten to base his sneering dislike upon Savile’s shifty eyes, when he himself was famed & reviled for his own boggle-vision:
“When he was seven years old he contracted spinal meningitis and was hospitalised for a whole year in St. Anne’s Hospital in Haringey, London. Throughout the entire experience he suffered from hallucinations, nausea and headaches, whilst the treatments administered by the nurses involved drawing fluid out of his spine with a surgical needle, something that left him with a permanent spinal curvature. The meningitis was also responsible for giving him what he would later describe as the “Lydon stare”, and for him, this experience was “the first step that put me on the road to Rotten”.”
Meanwhile, Exagerrato’s David Hencke promises more is to come: “… it’s going to be a real shock when the BBC report into his activities comes out. It is quite clear it will be a game changer…”
Perhaps a photograph of Savile at TOTP with Ted Heath (and orchestra) has been found?In slightly-related news, a very vocal ‘survivor’ is all in a flutter after an ‘intruder’ allegedly rummaged through her possessions; the police response has been unsatisfactory – they no longer have time to deal with such trivialities as break-ins. I think this is called ‘irony’.
- Misa
August 12, 2015 at 2:00 pm -
Crazy eyes, crazy hair, damaged spine, raised a Roman Catholic, no offspring (?), professional bullshitter, widely claimed to have transformed the music industry, loved his mother…next you’ll be telling me he raised millions for charity.
- Bandini
August 12, 2015 at 2:19 pm -
Ooh, I didn’t make the spinal-connection, Misa!
Not sure about charity, but he reckons his butter-based exploits caused an 80+% increase in sales, and Country Life have a royal connection:
“As well as supporting the Prince’s Countryside Fund directly, we proudly display the distinctive logo on all our butters and milk.”
That’s good enough for me – guilty!- Moor Larkin
August 12, 2015 at 2:27 pm -
Butter based exploits… … Last Tango in Rotherhithe?
- Moor Larkin
- Sam
August 13, 2015 at 2:08 am -
Lydon has lived with from the very start and still does, with the same lady. She is about 10 years older than him.
No rock’n’roll lifestyle for him. It’s all an illusion. - craigiestar
August 13, 2015 at 11:03 am -
Mr Lydon has three children. He just doesn’t publicise this.
- Moor Larkin
August 13, 2015 at 12:01 pm -
That’s not what he says
“Me and Nora never had children. Opportunities arose, but we weren’t capable of handling the birth of a child at the time. It was Nora’s decision to have the abortions, but you must never question a woman’s right.”
http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2014/oct/31/john-lydon-my-family-values
In 2000 Nora’s teenage twin grandsons came to live with us. Their mother, Ariane, better known as Ari Up from the punk band the Slits, had been bringing them up in Kingston, Jamaica, and 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.
- Moor Larkin
- Bandini
- Chris
August 12, 2015 at 2:01 pm -
The ex-Prime Minister famously did turn up to a TOTP recording in July 1975, to see Bing Crosby perform on the show.
Sadly for the conspiraloons, Noel Edmonds was the host and it was during a 3-month ‘Jim’ll Fix It’ (JS never worked TOTP when his weekly shows were in season) – not that facts hinder aspie-gossip…..- Bandini
August 12, 2015 at 2:11 pm -
I’d never heard this before, Chris! Well, I never:
“On 24 July 1975, the former Prime Minister Edward Heath arrived unannounced at the Top of the Pops studio to hear Bing Crosby perform That’s What Life Is All About.”
Scouting for toddlers in the audience, no doubt!
Speaking of conspiraloons, there was (is?) one particularly determined nutter with a serious grudge against Noel Edmonds, an impressively constructed tower of bullshit libelling all sorts of ‘powerful people’. Instead of yachts, helicopters! - Sam
August 13, 2015 at 2:09 am -
OMG !
now you are inferring Bing Crosby was part of the pedo ring !. I know his cousin very well. She couldn’t stand him. Did she know something I didn’t?
- Bandini
- Anne.
August 12, 2015 at 8:16 pm -
St Ann’s hospital in Haringey was formerly a mental health facility, it still has a mental health unit there, the ideal place for Rotten/Lydon perhaps?
- Sam
August 13, 2015 at 2:10 am -
No he’s not that interesting.
- Sam
- Misa
- Ergathones
August 12, 2015 at 1:34 pm -
“…incontrovertible evidence that JS was innocent…”
For some reason this whole business puts me in mind of that episode of The Simpsons where Lisa finds proof that local historical hero Jebediah Springfield was in reality a murderous pirate – but she’s eventually persuaded to keep quiet about it because the legend of Jebediah The Hero is much more important for the townsfolk to believe than the awful truth.
Now then. It almost seems that in our present case, the legend of Savile The Monster MUST take precedence over that of Savile The Harmless Weirdo – but how is this in the public interest, beyond stuffing the pockets of compensation lawyers? And has the legend of the past three years grown such roots, now, that even genuine evidence of innocence would simply be ignored in favour of “what we all now know” – as it’s less complicated that way?- Bandini
August 12, 2015 at 1:50 pm -
The impossibility of proving a negative…
The Savile-case seems to be similar to Catch-22 – if he were alive now he would undoubtedly be accused, tried & quite possibly convicted, given that thanks to this madness the ‘crime’ of shoulder-kissing:
“During one of the alleged assaults at Magic FM, Mr Fox is said to have walked up behind a complainant and kissed her shoulder.”
But then again, if Savile WERE alive we wouldn’t be talking about shoulder-kissing ‘crimes’, as it was only his death that re-wrote what might sensibly be considered worthy of prosecution.I was surprised to see The Guardian slightly reining-in its lunacy by referring to him as a ‘suspected paedophile’:
“North Yorkshire police are trawling their records for references to Heath following publication of images of the former prime minister with suspected paedophiles Jimmy Savile and ice cream mogul Peter Jaconelli.”
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/aug/07/heath-controversy-former-brothel-keeper-to-be-quizzed-by-authorities-paedophilia-child-abuse
I wonder if Heath, Savile & ‘the king of the cornet’, Jaconelli, were spotted together in that “pink Rolls Royce”, eh, Moor?!?- Moor Larkin
August 12, 2015 at 2:26 pm -
Like Jimmy’d have been seen dead in a pink Roller in his prime.
FFS … Everyone would have said that was the proof that he was gay.
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-XH57uEKghC4/UYqYBD4K2-I/AAAAAAAAB5w/5cLICl6hvKI/s1600/image002.jpg
Look! they’re just like us!- binao
August 12, 2015 at 7:41 pm -
Well Moor, I certainly wouldn’t claim to have known J.S., but I did meet him in the staff bar at Broadmoor in the late sixties. Dressed in a pink paisley jumpsuit complete with head covering & peak – him, not me.
Given that we’d watched a performance of ‘The Birthday Party’, & he wasn’t in it, I’m not at all sure of why…- Moor Larkin
August 12, 2015 at 10:41 pm -
Not the one he was wearing when the BBC cameras followed him round the place in 1988 or so?
http://img.thesun.co.uk/multimedia/archive/01614/Jimmy_Savile__1614683a.jpg- binao
August 13, 2015 at 6:55 am -
No Moor, I’m sure it was pink paisley, & all in one; the hood (which he later removed) was a kind of balaclava in the same fabric.
Very odd, but I guess celebs aren’t as we are.- Moor Larkin
August 13, 2015 at 7:38 am -
Could it have been a pair with this green one?
http://www.channel4.com/media/images/Channel4/c4-news/2011/NOV/08/08_savile_g_k_MED.jpg
No sign of such a pink garment in his auctioned wardrobe of stuff. He had a pink cycling outfit though although I’m not sure if it was his or just a souvenir of one of an old-time ( French or Italian?) rider. I would have expected such an outfit to be writ large in the hystorical record just now. Maybe he never wore it in public for fear folk would say he must be queer… - Bandini
August 13, 2015 at 1:35 pm -
I thought you were kidding with the jumpsuit, Binao – obviously not.
Did Savile bring to the world not only the trackie’n’chains rapper-look but also invent the ‘adult onesie’?!? Ahead of his time, indeed, and far further than these 60s lightweights here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WICrHBzTLM4- Moor Larkin
August 13, 2015 at 1:55 pm -
You cannot beat the genuine and original cheese… 1968 vintage…
https://youtu.be/RRMFvLGi2HY?t=1h36m32s
- Moor Larkin
- Moor Larkin
- binao
- Moor Larkin
- binao
- Moor Larkin
- James
August 12, 2015 at 10:24 pm -
I am good friends, going back 20 years now thanks to our mutual work in the media, with a man who now operates as a respected radio consultant and forward thinker. Whenever I post on Facebook or other such mediums my cynicism and belief that Savile has been done a very huge wrong he reacts with barely suppressed irritation at my “idiocy”, noting that I must surely have come across rumours about him in my time working in the north of England and that surely all the “revelations” so far only serve to confirm these rumours and thus his guilt.
Guilt of what he is never able to specify, but it does illustrate that for so many people it is a safe comfortable assumption to make that he was twisted and perverted and everyone always knew but said nothing for some reason. “It all came out about him when he died”, to coin a phrase.
So far I’ve declined to point out to my friend that most of the scurrilous rumours I came across during our time working together involved the conduct of his then-wife at staff Christmas parties. But based on his logic I’m assuming they are true.
- Bandini
- Alex
August 12, 2015 at 3:54 pm -
Well, you know whta they say – honi soit qui mal y nonce.
As for Rotten and the whole punk “movement”, it was all mostly a 1970’s sham (not 69), in the same way that Bill Haley was considered rebellious in the 1950’s. Nearly all of them ended up “selling out” in one way or another. It was only ever a money making exercise. Westwood and McClaren have a lot to answer for in the way they manipulated the music and fashion indudtries. I would take anything said by anyone who appeared on “Get me out of here, I’m a complete non entity” with a massive pinch of salt.
- Carol42
August 12, 2015 at 5:20 pm -
I see in the Sun today that the Madam who previously said she did not know Edward Heath now says she supplied him with young foreign adult men! Seems anyone can say anything for money without a shred of proof. I am pretty sure that TPTB know very well that much if not all of the evidence against Savile is nonsense but will never admit it. I am surprised to find myself sticking up for two men I couldn’t stand but the sheer unfairness and undermining everything I thought about our legal system leaves no choice.
- Backwoodsman
August 12, 2015 at 7:28 pm -
based his opinion on having thought he had ‘funny eyes’ when he saw him on television as a child.
Next week, ‘I knew Marty Feldman was a wrong ‘un.’ - Anon
August 12, 2015 at 8:29 pm -
To be (quote rabid Right wrong-un Rupe’s U.S. newZac monsta Fix Noise) ‘Fair & Balanced’. WTF?!
Rotten John never ackshully told soft Jon, that he HAD been on TOTP, but just hinted at rampant Pop Biz HEARSAY.
Quote “…We knew when you go to Top of the Pops what you were facing. It was common knowledge. But it wasn’t common knowledge in the media.”
We rest our case M’lud. And, move that Raccoon’s Rotten Bollocks be struck from the, er, records.
45s/CDs/AlBUMS/Downloads/MP3s/YTs/I-Pads/I-Pods/I-Pedos and of course piss stain TOTPs?
- JimS
August 12, 2015 at 8:43 pm -
Even if all the ‘negatives’ were proved the media would, as the BBC has done in the case of ex-policeman Darren Wilson, declare him to be ‘legally cleared’, (nudge, wink).
- Moor Larkin
August 12, 2015 at 11:30 pm -
- Chris
August 13, 2015 at 10:19 am -
Hypocrisy is the greatest luxury
- Moor Larkin
August 15, 2015 at 8:12 am -
“dirty, druggy, rock-n-roll culture”
https://youtu.be/4y4suznUbQU
- Moor Larkin
- Chris
- Anon
August 13, 2015 at 10:13 am -
c. 2014: Lydon, at 3m.12s, “My advice is always to any member of the working class is, get smart read as much as you can and find out who’s using ya..”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pY6S2TzytVY
c. 1964: Guevara (murdered in 1967 by the CIA) , “The first duty of any citizen/revolutionary is education.”
- Geoff
August 13, 2015 at 11:23 am -
Hope we’ll get a report on the “daily contact” Savile man. Any chance?
- Peter Raite
August 14, 2015 at 12:31 pm -
Lydon once condemned The Human League as “trendy hippies.” There is much to be said by the fact that Phil and the girls are still making music and still touring, while Lydon ended up doing butter commercials.
- Reimer
August 16, 2015 at 12:35 pm -
I suspect that the overgrown-adolescent highly-overrated bile-spewing Mick-gobshite-posing-as-British-when-it-suits Mr Lydon has catalysed far more social harm than Sir Jimmy ever did.
- sackcloth and ashes
August 18, 2015 at 10:01 pm -
‘[Here] is a highly paid, serious, supposedly investigative journalist – Jon Snow …’
I think it fair to say that the only part of that statement which is actually true is that Snow receives a very generous salary.
Perhaps – as we can see from this piece – a little bit too generous.
- Bandini
September 24, 2015 at 2:04 pm -
Ye Gods, Liz Dux is actually quoting Lydon and asking: “How many could have been spared?”!
- Chris
September 24, 2015 at 5:59 pm -
Dux is disingenuous at the best of times, but given she & her co-conspirators know full well there were none in reality, this has now moved way beyond farce.
Are corporate PI lawyers & Piers Morgan “punk” now too? Must be.
By weekend the average British bozo will believe that Stewpot didn’t play much of John’s dub caterwauling on Junior Choice in 1979 cos “they’d banned him”. And that his confrontational appearances on Roundtable, Juke Box Jury, TOTP and Old Grey Whistle Test must never have happened.- Reimer
September 25, 2015 at 9:29 am -
I remember well JL’s spot on ‘Juke Box Jury’, his slouching truculence and his altercation with Alan ‘Fluff’ Freeman. That other irreproachable Pied Piper, John Peel (RIP), was on the show on another occasion IIRC, demonstrating how down with the angry kids he was by feigning a walkout when footage of Emerson Lake & Palmer was shown. He must have been forty at the time.
- Reimer
- Chris
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