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Johnny Rotten to appear in reality show
CNN ^ | Tuesday, January 20, 2004 Posted: 10:18 AM EST (1518 GMT)

Posted on 01/20/2004 8:32:10 AM PST by RoughDobermann

Edited on 04/29/2004 2:03:44 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

To the dismay of aging punk fans, a British television company announced Monday that the former Sex Pistols singer and angry punk icon -- now known by his real name, John Lydon -- has agreed to appear in the reality show "I'm a Celebrity ... Get Me Out of Here!"


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1 posted on 01/20/2004 8:32:11 AM PST by RoughDobermann
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To: RoughDobermann; martin_fierro
"...Pretty vacant, and we don't care"

;)

2 posted on 01/20/2004 8:37:36 AM PST by Constitution Day
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To: RoughDobermann
Henry Rollins was on TLC a few years ago. Punk has been subjugated as was inevitable all along. But I still want to be.... anarcheeeeeeeeeee.
3 posted on 01/20/2004 8:40:41 AM PST by discostu (and the tenor sax is blowing its nose)
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To: RoughDobermann
Dismay? Jeez, weren't those people paying attention the first time Rotten pulled one over on them?
4 posted on 01/20/2004 8:41:00 AM PST by Wolfie
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To: RoughDobermann
Other punk fans were appalled.

Once they move out of their mum's house, they'll realize that there's just certain stuff you have to do to pay the bloody rent!

5 posted on 01/20/2004 8:42:02 AM PST by FormerLib (We'll fight the good fight until the very end!)
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To: Constitution Day
Never mind Johnny Rotten.

<|:)~

(Speaking of 80s irrelevancies, have you seen Adam Ant recently?)


6 posted on 01/20/2004 8:42:11 AM PST by martin_fierro (Caught you looking.)
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To: Wolfie
Dismay? Jeez, weren't those people paying attention the first time Rotten pulled one over on them?

Really! Go Johnny go!
7 posted on 01/20/2004 8:42:53 AM PST by GodBlessRonaldReagan (where is Count Petofi when we need him most?)
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To: RoughDobermann
You know what I am sick of? I am sick of aging liberals telling rock stars that they have "sold out" just so they can perpetually re-live their own adolescence.
8 posted on 01/20/2004 8:43:32 AM PST by KC_Conspirator (This space for rent)
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To: Wolfie
Yep, they never have gotten the joke, and it's made JR a rich man. Plus, the song "Bodies" is about the most ringing diatribe against abortion ever put to music.
9 posted on 01/20/2004 8:43:53 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: tallhappy
(ping)

Thought you might wanna put your two cents in here.

10 posted on 01/20/2004 8:44:47 AM PST by freedomson ( provocateur)
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To: martin_fierro
Good grief! He looks ancient!

He didn't drink, he didn't smoke, so what did he do?

;^)

11 posted on 01/20/2004 8:46:47 AM PST by Constitution Day
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To: martin_fierro
My god, he's turned into Elton John.
12 posted on 01/20/2004 8:47:23 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: Constitution Day
I thought Johnny was on stage at Dean's rally last night.
13 posted on 01/20/2004 8:47:56 AM PST by Benrand
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To: RoughDobermann
Good for him....the man has to make a living.
14 posted on 01/20/2004 8:48:39 AM PST by GSWarrior
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To: RoughDobermann
"We have found a common cause, and it's your money," remarked Lydon.

At least they're being honest.

15 posted on 01/20/2004 8:48:54 AM PST by IYAS9YAS (Go Fast, Turn Left!)
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To: Constitution Day
Awhile back, Ant was in a bar (pub) and was wearing a a good the Bad and the Ugly hat and boot s and got some flak from some hooligans who did the whistle thing from that movie and proceed to throw an alternator at them and shoot at them with a starter's pistol.

I understand he's now in an asylum.

16 posted on 01/20/2004 8:49:48 AM PST by Benrand
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To: Wolfie
Jeez, weren't those people paying attention the first time Rotten pulled one over on them?

It's not like he tried hard to hide it---the Pistols' second album was titled The Great Rock'n'Roll Swindle.

17 posted on 01/20/2004 8:50:37 AM PST by Land of the Free 04
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To: freedomson
"We have found a common cause, and it's your money,"

"Ah ha ha -- ever get the feeling you've been cheated?" -- Johnny Rotten, Winterland, San Francisco California, 1978. After their last song, No Fun, an Iggy Pop cover, of their last concert.

18 posted on 01/20/2004 8:50:51 AM PST by tallhappy (Juntos Podemos!)
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To: Constitution Day
He didn't drink, he didn't smoke, so what did he do?

LOL! Subtle innuendos follow.

19 posted on 01/20/2004 8:51:28 AM PST by Land of the Free 04
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To: RoughDobermann
Amazing. The Sex Pistols "ride" lasted maybe 18 months between late 1976 and early 1978. Didn't even have a charted record in America - just an aborted tour of dives on a chartered Greyhound bus. I think they did maybe a dozen concerts total. And over a quarter century later, Johnny Rotten is still making a decent living off of it!
20 posted on 01/20/2004 8:51:38 AM PST by SamAdams76 (They said I wasn't right in the head so they put me in a nervous hospital instead of the White House)
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