The Sex Pistols are regarded by some as one of the most important bands ever. John Lydon’s descent into irrelevancy was complete. I don't want a politician running this world anymore.” In November that year he was interviewed for Good Morning Britain, saying that his support for Trump was meant as a rejection of “intellectual, left-wing ideas.” Many viewers were puzzled as to why the political views of an ex-pop singer, now living in the USA, would be of interest to them. (He became a US citizen in 2013.) He told the BBC’s Newsday: “Yes, of course, I'm voting for Trump. In 2018 he was photographed wearing a MAGA t-shirt, and in 2020 said that he was planning to vote for Trump. He came over as embarrassing, self-promoting, loud, pointlessly argumentative, frequently talking over other guests, and expressing attitudes which would certainly have upset his former self. In 2012 he appeared on an episode of Question Time, a long-running BBC current affairs program, in which members of the public ask questions of a panel of guest speakers and politicians.
The campaign was a great success and earned Lydon enough money to restart his post-punk band, Public Image Limited. Was this meant ironically? It’s hard to say. In 2008 he took part in a TV advertising campaign for Country Life butter, dressed in the kind of clothes that are usually reserved for the squirearchy, the British landowning elite. It was a cheap stunt, probably planned months in advance, which helped to revive his flagging career as a professional controversialist.
In one live broadcast he referred to the show’s viewers as “fucking cunts,” showing that he still had the capacity to shock. In 2004 he appeared in the reality TV series I'm a Celebrity.Get Me Out of Here! in which generally minor and failed celebrities compete with each other to eat Kangaroo’s testicles and the like, while isolated in the Australian jungle. Lydon’s been going downhill for a long time now. As if punks using the courts to settle disputes amongst themselves is not enough, it’s over a miniseries being paid for by the Disney Company. In less than 50 words I’ve managed to sum up all that’s gone wrong with the British punk scene. On August 23 rd, ex-Sex Pistols’ front man John Lydon, aka Johnny Rotten, lost a court case against two of his fellow band members, Paul Cook and Steve Jones, about the use of their material in the forthcoming Disney miniseries, directed by Danny Boyle.
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