John Lydon

Quick Facts

Full Name	John Lydon
Occupation	Rock Singer
Date Of Birth	Jan 31, 1956(1956-01-31)
Age	68
Birthplace	Holloway
Country	United Kingdom
Birth City	England
Horoscope	Capricorn

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.

He and Sid Vicious were bandmates in The Sex Pistols. and He and Sid Vicious were bandmates in The Sex Pistols. were members of The Sex Pistols.

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.

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.

Height, Weight & Body Measurements

John Lydon height 5 ft 8 in John weight Not Known & body measurements will update soon.

Who is John Lydon Dating?

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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?

John Lydon
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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Original languageEnglish
Publication status| Accepted/In press – 2021