{"id":258532,"date":"2025-12-30T19:10:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T19:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/258532\/"},"modified":"2025-12-30T19:10:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T19:10:07","slug":"john-lydon-says-he-hasnt-heard-from-sex-pistols-in-years-including-when-his-wife-died","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/258532\/","title":{"rendered":"John Lydon Says He Hasn&#8217;t Heard from Sex Pistols in Years, Including When His Wife Died"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/consequence.net\/artist\/john-lydon\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">John Lydon<\/a> (aka Johnny Rotten) has revealed that he hasn\u2019t heard from his former <a href=\"https:\/\/consequence.net\/artist\/sex-pistols\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Sex Pistols<\/a> bandmates in years, and that they didn\u2019t even reach out to him when his wife, Nora Forster, died in 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Lydon has been <a href=\"https:\/\/consequence.net\/2025\/02\/john-lydon-sex-pistols-featuring-frank-carter-karaoke\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">highly critical<\/a> of fellow founding Sex Pistols members Steve Jones, Glen Matlock, and Paul Cook touring as the Sex Pistols Featuring Frank Carter in recent years, likening it to \u201ckaraoke.\u201d However, in a new interview with\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetimes.com\/culture\/music\/article\/john-lyndon-pil-sex-pistols-nora-death-interview-lj0jfl3n8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">The Times<\/a>, the singer admitted he still has good memories of his former bandmates during his time in the legendary punk act.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI still have a very great fondness for the chaps from that period,\u201d said Lydon. \u201cWhat they evolved \u2014 or devolved \u2014 into since is another consequence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As for the lack of communication with his former Pistols bandmates, Lydon noted, \u201cI expected some kind of connection when Nora died, but nothing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He also doubled down on <a href=\"https:\/\/consequence.net\/2025\/04\/john-lydon-never-rejoin-woke-sex-pistols\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">previous comments<\/a> that he would never rejoin the Pistols again, offering a stern \u201cNo\u201d to that question. Back in April, Lydon told PA Media of a potential reunion, \u201cNever, not after what I consider their dirty deeds, let them wallow in Walt Disney woke expectations. They\u2019ve killed the content, or done their best to, and turned the whole thing into a rubbish, childishness, and that\u2019s unacceptable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Related Video<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, Lydon continues to tour with his longtime band Public Image Ltd, who are currently in the midst of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pilofficial.com\/tour\/#\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">winter UK tour<\/a>. Next up, PiL will embark on a South American outing in April, before launching a European jaunt in May, with <a href=\"https:\/\/viagogo.prf.hn\/click\/camref:1101lumwA\/pubref:pil*lydon-pistols\/destination:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.viagogo.com%2FConcert-Tickets%2FAlternative-Music%2FPublic-Image-Limited-Tickets\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">tickets available here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>See Lydon and PiL performing their classic song \u201cRise\u201d a couple nights ago at the O2 Forum in Kentish Town below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"John Lydon (aka Johnny Rotten) has revealed that he hasn\u2019t heard from his former Sex Pistols bandmates in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":258533,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[268],"tags":[434,18,117,19,17],"class_list":{"0":"post-258532","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115810102394412720","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=258532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258532\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/258533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}