Subject: Fw: [scotsdebate] Fw: God Save The Queen, says Johnny Rotten
Date: Sat, 18 May 2002 03:52:31 +0100


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Subject: [scotsdebate] Fw: God Save The Queen, says Johnny Rotten



> God Save The Queen, says Johnny Rotten
> By Hugh Davies, Entertainment Correspondent
> (Filed: 17/05/2002)
>
> As manic as ever, Johnny Rotten, the ageing punk jester, held court at a
>
> London club yesterday, letting fly with as much ribaldry as he could
> muster
> between gulps of beer, at "the tired old UK" and its inhabitants, among
> them
> the "weekend warrior from Tring", David Beckham.
>
> "He couldn't even wear a dress properly," said the Sex Pistol, adding:
> "Tony
> Blair has turned Britain into a Danish coffee house."
>
> Johnny Rotten: hoped the Queen's Jubilee weekend would be 'effing
> dismal'
>
> The miscreant singer, born John Lydon, drew a packed house to promote
> his
> re-release of God Save The Queen, to cash in on the monarch's golden
> jubilee. While sneering at Virgin Records, which is putting the disc
> out, he
> appeared to be warming to Her Majesty.
>
> He was not touching a purple forelock. He hoped her celebratory weekend
> next
> month would be "effing dismal". But he agreed that as long as she
> reigned
> she was to be admired. The Prince of Wales was useless, he said. "As
> long as
> Elizabeth keeps him off the throne, she's doing a good job."
>
> Did this mean that he quietly liked her? Well, he replied, he had always
> had
> a rude thought about her.
>
> At Buckingham Palace, a courtier, who is organising the Queen's rock
> concert, smiled when his name came up. He vaguely recalled him. "Wasn't
> he
> with the six pistols?"
>
> Lydon, 46, said that when the Palace concert was announced he sent an
> email
> to the Queen. There was no reply. "I don't know where it went." He
> doubted,
> he said, if the Queen read his missive.
>
> Did he want to appear at her party. "Oh yes. I fought so hard to get on
> it."
> Would he have sung his 1977 version of God Save The Queen? "Of course, I
>
> would. I would have changed the lyrics, naturally. I am an obsequious
> ****."
>
> As it was, he would let the Queen have "her fun" and then he would
> perform
> at Crystal Palace on July 27. The original members, Steve Jones, Glen
> Matlock and Paul Cook plan to join him.
>
>
http://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2002/05/17/nrot17.xmlt
>
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>  Overgrow the Government!
>
>  There ain't no Sanity Clause.
>


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