Johnny Rotten Says He'll Rather Miss the Queen

In 1977, Johnny Rotten co-wrote the controversial punk song God Save the Queen.

Back in 1977, The Sex Pistols released the controversial punk song God Save the Queen, an attack on the treatment of the working class in England by the government in the 70’s. The song was released during Queen Elizabeth II's Silver Jubilee in 1977. The Queen was 51 years old.


Now as the Queen turns 91 this April, Sex Pistols frontman John Lydon – aka Johnny Rotten – said that he will “miss” the Queen after she dies and that he doesn’t want his band’s famous ‘God Save The Queen’ to be played to mark her passing.

When Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher died in 2013, ‘Ding Dong The Witch Is Dead’ from The Wizard Of Oz reached number 2 in the UK charts following a Facebook campaign. However, Lydon has said that he wouldn’t want anything similar to happen after the Queen passes away.

[Sex Pistols’ ‘God Save The Queen’] is about a political situation and the demand for obedience to a monarchy I don’t believe in,” Lydon recently told The Quietus, adding: “She’s a human being and I will sorely miss her as a human being on planet Earth… It’s not her fault she was born into a gilded cage. Long may she live.
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