John Lydon

John Lydon has said he's "terrified of mugging up" his Eurovision entry for Ireland, with his band Public Image Ltd.

They will be performing [ a new song, ‘Hawaii’, for the competition, which is dedicated to Lydon’s wife Nora](https://www.nme.com/news/music/john-lydon-dedicates-eurovision-entry-hawaii-to-wife-3380808) who is living with Alzheimer’s disease. “This is something that I watched when I was young with my parents,” John said of the contest. “I don’t know what I’m going to go through doing this today. I miss my missus, if you keep voting for me I’m going to miss her even more.” And I miss her like mad. [Sex Pistol](https://www.nme.com/artists/sex-pistols) announced [his bid to represent Ireland](https://www.nme.com/news/music/public-image-ltd-to-compete-to-represent-ireland-at-eurovision-with-new-song-hawaii-3377095) in the annual singing competition with his band [Public Image Ltd.](https://www.nme.com/artists/public-image-ltd), last month.

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“I would love to see a stand-alone Eurovision show,” he said. “It’s time to party again,” he said. “I am even shaking now thinking about this because it means the world to me,” he said. The London born singer will be singing a song he wrote for his wife, Nora, who has been ill with Alzheimers since 2018, during the Eurosong final. Mostly of letting Nora down,” he said. Apart from his mother’s roots in Carrigrohane, his God-mother also hailed from the Rebel County.

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“This is something that I watched when I was young with my parents,” Lydon said of the Eurovision contest. “A few days after my birthday, I got a call – I wasn’t going to answer it as well,” he said, with Nevlonne adding it came as a “complete shock”. “It’s such a lovely community, and the whole of Connemara have been so good to me, so supporting,” she said, adding that students from her old primary school had sent her a video wishing her good luck. He said that as a “joke”, he would submit something and “completely forgot about it”. “So I clicked out of it and then I see ‘Enter Eurovision 2023’.” He said he was still “terrified of mugging it up, getting it wrong, letting people down – mostly letting Nora down”.

The former Sex Pistol wrote the song for his wife - and says mum and dad will be with him.

“It's not the only place of significance to her but that was the one I picked out. It's as good as any other way of listening to music [the Eurovision], I don't have any prejudices about things like that and Simon Cowell isn't involved.. I wrote a song that I wanted to be absolutely poignant about the catastrophe my wife is going through, I think I've succeeded... “I’m terrified of mugging it up, getting it wrong, letting people down, mostly letting Nora down... it means the world to me. "Maybe they see something in this, if we can bring to the forefront Alzheimer’s being such a limiting illness. He told the Irish Mirror: “It would be nice; my mum and dad would be ever so chuffed. I miss her like mad. It's very, very tear-jerking for me to even talk about it. The song, Hawaii, is about this struggle and the enduring love which has helped them through it. “It wouldn't have been something I planned. In many ways they're with me right now...

On the song with his band Public Interest Ltd, John Lydon revels in a perfect moment with his partner Nora Forster, who has Alzheimer's.

He’s remarkably tender (certainly a far cry from his “God Save the Queen” days) as he croons: “Don’t fly too soon/ No need to cry, in pain/ You are loved.” Indeed, “Hawaii” is all about revelling in a perfect moment. [that] moment of recognition”, which he described as “a beautiful gift”.

The former Sex Pistols frontman penned the song for his wife Nora, who has Alzheimer's.

John will perform the song with his current band Public Image Ltd (PiL). Hopefully the song kind of helps. Our love to Nora." He said: "Here is a song I’ve wrote about my lovely missus, who is suffering Alzheimer's, and I’m having to watch the slow dilapidation of her brain. "And I’m struggling to keep a relationship with Nora. The musician, 67, was speaking from the capital yesterday when he appeared on ITV's This Morning.

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“I miss her like mad; my only communication with her is at the moment on the iPad. "This Friday is going to have a big, bright and sparkly line up of acts. Johnny Lydon has said he is “as much Irish as anybody else by blood” as he bids to represent Ireland in the Eurovision Song Contest this year.

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In 2000, John and Nora became the legal guardians of Ari's twin teenaged boys, who came to live with them after being raised in Jamaica, where their mother was based. Sadly, Ariane passed away in 2010 after a "serious illness," according to a message on her stepfather's website at the time. "I was in a coma for seven months and when I woke I’d lost my memory. John's mother is from Cork, while his father is from Galway, and was also musical, having played accordion in Irish show bands. He grew up in Holloway, North London as the oldest child of three brothers. John is the primary caregiver for his wife, and his Eurovision song is a sample of his love and respect for his wife. She can go back 20 years and remember in the greatest detail with complete accuracy. "Sometimes her memory is lethal. John was at the helm of The Sex Pistols as the lead singer from 1975 to 1978, and again for various revivals during the 1990s and 2000s. John married the love of his life Nora Maier Forster, a German publishing heiress, in 1979, and the couple have enjoyed almost 45 years of married life together. His mother passed away due to cancer while John was in his 20s, and his father passed away suddenly in 2008. While he has found international fame, his Irish roots run deep, and we're looking back on the creative's life in and out of the limelight.

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"Obviously thank you to everyone who voted for us. "We hope everyone gets behind the song and we hope everyone gets behind us. His entry, Hawaii, was dedicated to his wife of nearly five decades, Nora, who is living with Alzheimer’s disease.

Public Image Ltd, which John Lydon formed after the Sex Pistols split, had hoped to go to the song contest.

"I just wanted to do this because it was something fresh," O'Donohoe told BBC News. Numbers are expected to rise significantly over the coming decades. [Liverpool was handed "the official keys" to Eurovision](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-64332300) in a handover ceremony which included the semi-final allocation draw. "He loves his wife and he wants her to be recognised and he wants her disease to be spoken about and eventually cured." Instead the band Wild Youth was chosen to fly the Irish flag at the song contest in Liverpool in May. The 67-year-old had hoped his song Hawaii, about his wife Nora who lives with Alzheimer's, would be chosen "to bring awareness" to the disease.

Former Sex Pistols frontman John Lydon and his band Public Image Ltd (PiL) have failed in their bid to represent Ireland at the Eurovision Song Contest.

We want to thank all of our families, they have supported us from day one.” Edward added: “I am not so sure it is a song for Eurovision.” “It is going to be a difficult one for me tonight.

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"I try to capture that in the song. I can see the personality in her eyes that lets me know. "Her communication skills are letting her down. "That's not the case anymore, she requires 24 hour attention and I'm more than willing to give her that," John said as he became tearful. Alzheimer's is an enormous problem, at the moment it's incurable and I struggle to find and keep a relationship with Nora and me. Hello there," he sang.