{"id":381634,"date":"2025-12-31T02:11:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T02:11:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/381634\/"},"modified":"2025-12-31T02:11:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T02:11:14","slug":"john-lydon-surprised-sex-pistols-wont-talk-to-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/381634\/","title":{"rendered":"John Lydon Surprised Sex Pistols Won’t Talk to Him"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tJohn Lydon<\/a>, n\u00e9 Johnny Rotten<\/a>, hasn\u2019t heard from any of his former bandmates in the Sex Pistols<\/a> and, in a new interview, he appears to be the only person on Earth surprised by that fact. \u201cI expected some kind of connection when [my wife] Nora died [in 2023]<\/a>, but nothing,\u201d he recently told The Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tLydon\u2019s revelation comes after years of quarreling with guitarist Steve Jones, bassist Glen Matlock, and drummer Paul Cook. Jones and Cook sued Lydon<\/a> in 2021 for use of the Pistols\u2019 music in Danny Boyle\u2019s Pistol miniseries, based off of Jones\u2019 memoirs. Lydon lost the lawsuit, and the musicians claimed a \u201cmajority rule agreement\u201d<\/a> allowed them to overrule Lydon\u2019s veto. The three formerly ex-Pistols have since reunited<\/a> the band without Lydon, hiring Frank Carter as vocalist for recent tours.<\/p>\n

\n\tWhen the Times asked if Lydon would consider reuniting with his former bandmates, he gave a one-word response: \u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tLydon added that he believed the Pistol series was \u201cterrible,\u201d though he had hopes for it despite his public objections. \u201cSomething in me wanted it to be good, but it might as well have been about the Partridge Family,\u201d he said. \u201cI don\u2019t like anything to do with it because I wasn\u2019t asked to contribute.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe way the other Sex Pistols have shunned Lydon in recent years is no surprise to anyone who\u2019s kept up with the band. In a recent Rolling Stone<\/a> interview, Jones recalled attempting to break his own wrist to give a premature end to a 2008 Pistols reunion with Lydon because, \u201cI didn\u2019t ever want to fucking hang out with [Lydon] again.\u201d Matlock described Lydon\u2019s behavior on the tour as \u201cchildish.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tDrummer Cook shot down the idea of reuniting with Lydon for a Never Mind the Bollocks 50th anniversary tour in 2017 wholesale. \u201cWe wouldn\u2019t want to do it, and John definitely wouldn\u2019t want to do it after what\u2019s happened,\u201d he said in the Rolling Stone interview. \u201cSo, that\u2019s it. And I don\u2019t want to do it with John anyway.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\n\tIn 2017, Jones told Rolling Stone<\/a> that he had \u201cno friendship\u201d with Lydon. \u201cHe lives in L.A., I live in L.A., but we just don\u2019t talk,\u201d he said. \u201cI think the last time I spoke to him was 2008 when we did a tour of Europe. I have no desire to speak to him and he has no desire to speak to me. That\u2019s totally fine.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAlthough both the Pistols\u2019 reunion with Carter and Lydon\u2019s post-punk band, Public Image Ltd.<\/a>, have tour dates scheduled for Europe next summer, none of the dates overlap. Neither group currently has dates scheduled for the U.S.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"John Lydon, n\u00e9 Johnny Rotten, hasn\u2019t heard from any of his former bandmates in the Sex Pistols and,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":381635,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[64,63,447,134,205285,205286,205287,45958,205288],"class_list":["post-381634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-john-lydon","tag-johnny-rotten","tag-public-image-ltd","tag-sex-pistols","tag-the-sex-pistols"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=381634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381634\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/381635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}