Johnny Lydon

Though London born, John Lydon – the front man of PIL and former lead singer of punk rock legends the Sex Pistols – will be hoping for strong support from ...

“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.

His band Public Image Ltd, also known as PiL, are among the six acts competing to represent Ireland at the Eurovision Song Contest to be held in Liverpool this ...

“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 Pistols frontman, also known as Johnny Rotten, grew up in Britain but his mother was from Cork and his father from Galway. He has written a song ...

“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.

The punk legend is a contender to represent Ireland in the Eurovision Song Contest, which will be decided upon by public vote at tonight's Late Late Show ...

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.

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.

The possibility of Lydon's post-punk band, Public Image Ltd, representing Ireland at the 67th Eurovision song contest in Liverpool in May had attracted ...

“There’s a sense of, ‘We wish you and your wife the best, but your comments are just too insulting.’” “People go on about Ireland winning Eurovision more than any other country, but those glory years unfolded in a jury-only system. Lydon, formerly known as Johnny Rotten, irked some Eurovision fans when he called the contest “awful” and “phoney” in a recent radio interview. Each awarded Lydon six points for a total of 18, putting him in the middle of the table. Wild Youth’s singer, Conor O’Donohoe, said the band was overwhelmed. “No I have not, but that’s not the point.”

Lydon, formerly known as Johnny Rotten, came fourth out of six acts in Ireland's selection process.

[Sam Ryder](https://news.sky.com/topic/sam-ryder-10079) finished second last, the [BBC](https://news.sky.com/topic/bbc-6800) stepped in to host the contest instead. [unsafe to host](https://news.sky.com/story/eurovision-risk-of-air-raids-and-mass-casualties-too-high-in-kyiv-to-host-competition-in-ukraine-organisers-say-12639273) the competition in [Ukraine](https://news.sky.com/topic/ukraine-6556) after [Kalush Orchestra's 2022 win](https://news.sky.com/story/ukraine-wins-eurovision-song-contest-with-performance-by-kalush-orchestra-as-zelenskyy-vows-to-host-show-next-year-12613436). He spoke fondly of watching Eurovision as a child, saying: "This is something that I watched when I was young with my parents. [UK](https://news.sky.com/uk) is yet to announce details of potential entrants to Eurovision. [Eurovision announces viewers across the rest of the world can vote in next year's contest](https://news.sky.com/story/eurovision-announces-viewers-across-the-rest-of-the-world-can-vote-in-next-years-contest-12753169) [When is the song contest, who's hosting and when can I get tickets?](https://news.sky.com/story/eurovision-when-is-the-song-contest-whos-hosting-and-when-can-i-get-tickets-12788050)