John Lydon Net Worth
John Lydon Net Worth is
$1 Million
John Lydon Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
John Joseph Lydon (born 31 January 1956), also known by his former stage name Johnny Rotten, is an English singer-songwriter, television presenter and painter, best known as the lead singer of punk rock band the Sex Pistols from 1975 until 1978, and again for various revivals during the 1990s and 2000s. He is the lead singer of the post-punk band Public Image Ltd (PiL), which he founded and fronted from 1978 until 1993, and again since 2009. Throughout his career, Lydon has made controversial or dismissive comments about the British Royal Family and other subjects.There has been a recent revival of a 1980s movement to have Lydon knighted for his achievements with the Sex Pistols – even though he has since turned down an MBE (Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire) for his services to music. In 2002 he was named among the 100 Greatest Britons following a UK-wide vote. Q Magazine remarked that "somehow he's assumed the status of national treasure."Lydon's personally crafted image and fashion style led to him being asked to become the singer of the Sex Pistols by their manager, Malcolm McLaren. With the Pistols, he penned singles including "Anarchy in the U.K.", "God Save the Queen" and "Holidays in the Sun", the content of which precipitated the "last and greatest outbreak of pop-based moral pandemonium" in Britain.The band caused nationwide uproar in much of the media, who objected to the content of Lydon’s lyrics, and their antics, which included swearing on live television, in which Steve Jones called Bill Grundy a "fucking rotter". Due to the band's appearance in the media, Lydon was largely seen as the figurehead of the punk movement in the public image although this idea was not widely supported amongst the punk movement itself. Despite the negative reaction that they provoked, they are now regarded as one of the most influential acts in the history of popular music.Lydon left the Pistols in 1978 to found his own band, Public Image Ltd, that was far more experimental in nature, and which has been described as "arguably the first post-rock group". Although never as commercially successful as the Pistols, the band produced eight albums and a string of singles, including "Public Image", "Death Disco", and "Rise", before they went on hiatus in 1993, reforming in 2009. In subsequent years, Lydon hosted a number of television shows in the UK, US and Belgium, as well as writing an autobiography, Rotten: No Irish, No Blacks, No Dogs (1993), and producing some solo musical work, such as the album Psycho's Path (1997). | Full Name | John Lydon |
| Net Worth | $1 Million |
| Date Of Birth | January 31, 1956 |
| Place Of Birth | Holloway, London, England, UK |
| Height | 5' 8" (1.73 m) |
| Profession | Soundtrack, Actor, Music Department |
| Education | Westminster Kingsway College |
| Spouse | Nora Forster |
| Parents | John Christopher Lydon, Eileen Lydon |
| Siblings | Martin Lydon, Bobby Lydon, Jimmy Lydon |
| Awards | NME Award for Best Book, NME Award for Most Wonderful Human Being, Porin Special Merit Award for Achievement in Music, NME Award for Face of the Decade |
| Music Groups | Sex Pistols, Public Image Ltd, Pigface |
| Nominations | NME Award for Best Quote |
| Movies | Sons of Norway, The Independent, Copkiller, The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle |
| TV Shows | Juke Box Jury, 100 Greatest Artists of Hard Rock |
| Star Sign | Aquarius |
| # | Trademark |
|---|---|
| 1 | Spiked hair and sneer |
| 2 | Raw vocals |
| # | Quote |
|---|---|
| 1 | You don't write "God Save The Queen" because you hate the English race, you write a song like that because you love them; and you're fed up with them being mistreated. |
| 2 | [on Public Image Ltd.] Public Image is closer to jazz than anything else. Which is odd, because I hate jazz. I can't bear all those saxophone and trumpet-blowers, they drive me insane. |
| 3 | [on the 1986 biopic Sid and Nancy] I cannot understand why anyone would want to put out a movie like Sid and Nancy and not bother to speak to me; Alex Cox, the director, didn't. He used as his point of reference - of all the people on this earth - Joe Strummer! That guttural singer from The Clash? What the fuck did he know about Sid and Nancy? That's probably all he could find, which was really scraping the bottom of the barrel. The only time Alex Cox made any approach toward me was when he sent the chap who was playing me over to New York where I was. This actor told me he wanted to talk about the script. During the two days he was there, he told me that the film had already been completed. The whole thing was a sham. It was a ploy to get my name used in connection with the film, in order to support it. To me this movie is the lowest form of life. I honestly believe that it celebrates heroin addiction. It definitely glorifies it at the end when that stupid taxi drives off into the sky. That's such nonsense. The squalid New York hotel scenes were fine, except they needed to be even more squalid. All of the scenes in London with the Pistols were nonsense. None bore any sense of reality. The chap who played Sid, Gary Oldman, I thought was quite good. But even he only played the stage persona as opposed to the real person. I don't consider that Gary Oldman's fault because he's a bloody good actor. If only he had the opportunity to speak to someone who knew the man. I don't think they ever had the intent to research properly in order to make a seriously accurate movie. It was all just for money, wasn't it? To humiliate somebody's life like that - and very successfully - was very annoying to me. The final irony is that I still get asked questions about it. I have to explain that it's all wrong. It was all someone else's fucking fantasy, some Oxford graduate who missed the punk rock era. The bastard. When I got back to London, they invited me to a screening. So I went to see it and was utterly appalled. I told Alex Cox, which was the first time I met him, that he should be shot, and he was quite lucky I didn't shoot him. I still hold him in the lowest light. Will the real Sid please stand up? As for how I was portrayed, well, there's no offense in that. It was so off and ridiculous. It was absurd. Champagne and baked beans for breakfast? Sorry. I don't drink champagne. He didn't even speak like me. He had a Scouse accent. Worse, there's a slur implied in the movie that I was jealous of Nancy, which I find particularly loathsome. There is that implication that I feel was definitely put there. I guess that's Alex Cox showing his middle class twittery. It's all too glib, it's all too easy. |
| 4 | When I first started, we assumed you couldn't go anywhere unless you had a label. But now, if you're successful at live gigs, you can make things yourselves, and present them uncontaminated. |
| 5 | You can't all be fabulously out-there experimenters - you need someone who is a good structuralist to build these ideas into a solid foundation. You need a rock to build your church on. |
| 6 | There was no vicious undertone in us, no nasty edge. And certainly none of the deadpan, dreary political opinions like The Clash wallowed in. We lived in the real world. We actually did come from council flats. We knew the consequences of socialism. |
| 7 | I'd give it all up in a flying fart second if I wanted to. But I'm only doing this because I love it. I'm now 51, and I feel quite happy about that. And if you don't, then fuck off, 'cos this is my life, mate, not yours. As for the old Pete Townshend lyric, "I hope I die before I get old" - well, no! Every time I meet Pete I tell him the same thing: "Aren't you sorry you said that?" |
| 8 | I'm getting a bit short-sighted now, so I just file everything according to colour, and pick up random CDs. You'll find everything there - jungle, Chris Isaak, Abba, Miles Davis, Sun Ra, the lot. Oh, and Mozart. Always Mozart. That crept into me from the soundtrack to that wonderful film, Barry Lyndon (1975). Some elements of country music annoy me, so you won't find much of that. Same with New Orleans trad jazz, those silly banjos and soprano saxes really bug me. It sounds like a French traffic jam. Otherwise, anything goes. |
| 9 | The whole "I Hate Pink Floyd Thing" was hilarious. Anyone who took that seriously needs a new head. As it happens, I love early Pink Floyd with Syd Barrett - the original Sid Vicious, by the way - and even some of the '70s stuff. I just hated the assumption that they were holier than God and you couldn't give them a knock. |
| 10 | I've got no idea what happened to dear old Keith (Keith Levene). What a waste of talent. He used to be a great guitarist. But he made the mistake of over-grandiosing his own position in PiL, and then he complicated his life with various substances. And he ended up doing fuck all. Which is a shame, because there'd be no U2 without Keith's guitar style. |
| 11 | I lost Sid, my best and dearest friend, to heroin, and it's not nice. You've got to get away from drugs as escapism. There's nothing you need to run away from yourself as a human being. Quite the opposite. Learn to love thyself and all will be fine. |
| 12 | She's a wonderful, wonderful woman, stunningly innovative and creative. One of our finest. (On Kate Bush) |
| 13 | I remember Pete Townshend once saying, "I hope I die before I get old". I thought then, well, I hope it works out for you, but me, I'm more than happy to get old. |
| 14 | Music can describe emotions far more accurately than words ever can. As soon as I realised that, I knew music was where I wanted to be. |
| 15 | The only place I have ever felt truly comfortable is on stage. I still get the nerves and the doubts beforehand, but on stage I feel that's my home. |
| 16 | I have no idea why, but the music industry seems intent in keeping me poor. They seem to enjoy investing in mediocrity and getting fat on profits from bands who are disposable. I can't allow it to stifle me. I know there are still people out there who want to hear the music I make. What I do is poetry in motion and it's completely original, which is a very rare thing these days. Everyone has had a piece of us from Radiohead to Massive Attack, but in the music business it seems to be a case of first come, least served. |
| 17 | It costs a lot to go out on tour, there are a lot of wages to pay, so if Country Life want to pay me to be in their adverts I will be there. I don't know what people find so wrong about me selling British products, to me it would seem to be a good thing. The one thing I have never done and never will do is sell out. |
| 18 | We never bought into that Pete Townsend 'Hope I die before I get old' crap. We love our beer bellies, and you're gonna, too. |
| 19 | I'm surprised we aren't in jail for treason. |
| 20 | Asked if he considered himself to be in the punk movement of the 70's: I would say that would be a hindsight statement. No, at the time it wasn't big at all, it was very small. The day the Sex Pistols ceased to exist was the day they became important and relevant. It wasn't working. They wanted to turn us into the Rolling Stones and I didn't want that. |
| 21 | Yes, with a vengeance, but we share a common cause, and that's your money. (Asked whether The Sex Pistols, about to commence their "Filthy Lucre" reunion tour, still hated each other ) |
| 22 | The whole Bill Grundy incident was lovely. It was heaven. He ruined his own career. It wasn't me. |
| 23 | On life in England before the Pistols: "You learn to expect nothing. You get nothing. You start off in school and they take your soul away. They take your brains away. You're not allowed to have an opinion that differs from theirs. So when you leave school, your only future is getting married... and by that time you've got two kids and you just want to commit suicide." |
| 24 | (At the grand opening of the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas): "I love it! It's so quintessentially American! It's a cross between a mausoleum of pop music and a temple of greed!" |
| 25 | On Blair's Third Way: "Margaret Thatcher politics under a Labour Party guise." |
| 26 | On the royal family: "my father worked very hard and had a lot of tax taken off to support what I'd seen as a bunch of lazy good-for-nothing inbreds. And I think time has proved me right. The British now completely agree with me on that. So, my attitude would be, about them now, to sell them off to Disneyland. I think that they would be wonderful next to the Epcot Center! And that would solve a lot of Britain's economic problems." |
| 27 | I think national pride leads to nothing but wars and hates. |
| 28 | Well, with the Pistols, there was a lot of books that came out by people who weren't there, didn't know us and exaggerated the whole thing into being some political movement. Which it wasn't. This was a bunch of people who had opinions on things. Very important opinions, it turns out. But nothing more than that. And all covered up in pop music. |
| 29 | It was brought up in Parliament that I should be tied to "Traitor's Gate" and drowned. That's one of the comments from some MP. Wouldn't have been such a bad idea, really. It'd sell records. |
| 30 | On marriage: "I'm well known for being completely loyal; once I make a commitment, it's forever." |
| 31 | The sheep who buy Korn and Limp Bizkit . . . they're completely, utterly foolish. |
| 32 | On Michael Jackson: "I get censored on TV, but you have that thing parading around, waving its crotch at little children. Tell me that's not seriously corrupt." |
| 33 | I don't think there's any such thing as rock 'n' roll anymore -- it's an amalgamation of business interests |
| 34 | On using drugs: "I used to. And found that I wasn't getting too much done." |
| 35 | On anarchism: "anarchy, frankly -- if you take it quite literally -- is mind games for the middle class. When you come from desperate poverty, and that's exactly what I come from, you know that nonsenses are not to be tolerated. I'm not sure who gains from chaos, but I know it's not the poor folks in the council flats. The politics of vindictiveness is never, ever anything like a solution." |
| 36 | On the Rolling Stones: "Good luck to them. You know, if they enjoy doing what they're doing, I'd say well and fine. But, I'm not sure that's the reason they exist. I think it's much more to do with making money." |
| 37 | On The Cure: "They're a band I have no time for whatsoever. I think they're a farce." |
| 38 | On rock: "It needs a new generation to come out and kick everybody. I'm not going to do it myself. I've done my bit for society." |
| 39 | On disco: "I see no problem admiring the Bee Gees and being in The Sex Pistols." |
| 40 | On Princess Diana's funeral: "Watching that ridiculous funeral, and particularly here in LA watching people crying over their TV sets over someone they didn't understand at all... they just didn't get it. And who paid for the funeral?" |
| 41 | On Princess Diana: "She was a thoroughly useless spare tit." |
| 42 | On Liam Gallagher of Oasis: "Whether Liam knows it or not he's become bourgeois, though he pretends not to be" |
| 43 | On Nelson Mandela: "I think he's a complete fake. Anyone that condoned killing and slaughter and all those things that he went to jail for originally. How can he now be a man of peace and wisdom and wonder?" |
| 44 | On the Spice Girls: "They're vacuous, talentless, and what on earth does girl power mean?" |
| 45 | The day I run out of ideas is the day I stop making records. |
| 46 | On the Filthy Lucre reunion tour: "I wanted to just finally and forever put an end to the myth that's grown up around the Sex Pistols. To just call it 'full stop', the end, finish. Then nobody can blabber on 'ad infinitum' and exaggerate and mythologize about a band that wasn't too brilliant in the first place. I mean, I know where all the talent lay... me! So I thought it would be fun to bring the other three out and show them up for the fools they are." |
| 47 | On Sid Vicious: "I could take on England, but I couldn't take on one heroin user." |
| 48 | On live music: "It's uncomfortable...It's badly done and it all relates to a PA system and a bad engineer. How to get sweaty with people you don't know, bad toilets and a long line at the bar. I can tell you, it ain't good for the band or you the audience." |
| 49 | On Howard Stern: "He's one joke that's already tired." |
| 50 | On Kurt Cobain: Don't tell me he was a sensitive soul. If he was sensitive, he would have been aware that he has responsibilities to other human beings. Really, what he did was he took the easy way out, and became, to my mind, a very selfish person. Very self-centered, to do that. He could have received a lot more help from those around him. I feel sorry for him in that respect. But, you know, I actually wanted to work with him. And it pisses me off." |
| 51 | On music: "If you want to call it art, then do, but I'd put an 'f' in front of that." |
| 52 | On Prodigy: "I should put a lawsuit out on that lot! Talk about ripping my ****ing stuff off. What a fraud." |
| 53 | On rap: "Well it started out bloody well and fine, didn't it? It was very varied, it was very multicultural and had no limitations. And it soon narrowed itself into a very ridiculous, black-only attitude. And even as an all-black music formula, they still disrespect each other, in the most appalling ways." |
| 54 | On Elvis Presley: "Dreadful old windbag! And I think somebody should point out that his so-called "illustrious career" - he never, not once, wrote a single song." |
| 55 | On Madonna: "I think she's an opportunist more than a talent. But, you know, she's a very good opportunist." |
| 56 | On Keith from Prodigy: "He's got my hair, he's got my accent!" |
| 57 | On hosting his own show: "If the Osmonds have got the opportunity, then why the hell shouldn't I?" |
| 58 | On punk in the nineties: "There isn't no such thing anymore. That's something that happened way back in the late 70s. Historically, that's where it belongs. You gotta move on. Anyone imitating that now in the 90's is a bit of a fool. You should have your own thing and stop looking up to Granddad." |
| 59 | On body piercing: "It's just a fad now. About as much content in it as Prodigy." |
| 60 | On his relationship with his father: "We never ever spoke, really, seriously at all until the day I left home. And from then on in, it's been friendship total." |
| 61 | On Malcolm Mclaren: "I'm not aware of him anymore. I haven't been for quite a long time." |
| 62 | On being on tour with the other Sex Pistols again: "They don't seem to relate to the world around them. They're stuck in this 1976 vibe. It's very peculiar. It was a bit like walking around with a museum attached to you. But then, I'm perverse enough to enjoy that." |
| 63 | On acting: "I hated it. It was too long, too stressful; two minutes' working day and 12 hours' fear and nausea. And no improvising; you're just a hired robot. That might be all right for people that don't have any kind of personality, but if you have anything going for your own self, it's very, very frustrating that way." |
| # | Fact |
|---|---|
| 1 | DJ for BBC Radio Two [October 2002] |
| 2 | He was supposed to be on Pan American World Airways Flight 103 from London's Heathrow International Airport to New York's John F. Kennedy Airport on December 21, 1988, but missed the flight because his wife Nora, hadn't packed in time. The plane crashed over the town of Lockerbie, Scotland when a terrorist bomb exploded in the forward cargo hold, killing all 259 passengers and crew. |
| 3 | Lives in Los Angeles with his wife and Step-children. |
| 4 | Is portrayed by Mark Windows in 24 Hour Party People (2002). |
| 5 | Stepfather of Ari Up (née Ariana Forster) of the punk band The Slits. |
| 6 | Is portrayed by Andrew Schofield in Sid and Nancy (1986) |
| 7 | The Sex Pistols were voted the 58th Greatest Rock 'n' Roll Artists of all time by Rolling Stone. |
| 8 | The whole "Johnny Rotten" persona was indicated as a stage act in "The Filth & the Fury," the considerably more flattering of two documentaries on the Sex Pistols. Johnny Lydon was said to be a sickly, quiet, bookish type before he joined the group and the documentary showed that many aspects of his stage persona were inspired directly by Laurence Olivier's performance in the film "Richard III": the hunched back, the half-sneer/half-grin, the loud clothes, the tendency to shout insults at any "passersby." |
| 9 | Lydon was knifed by offended Royalists after the Sex Pistols' classic anti-monarchy song "God Save The Queen" was released, resulting in the permanent loss of feeling in the middle two fingers of his left hand. He has played the guitar right-handed ever since. |
| 10 | Son of John Christopher and Eileen Lydon. |
| 11 | Sufferred Spinal Meningitis as a child. |
| 12 | Three younger brothers, Jimmy, Bobby and Martin Lydon |
Soundtrack
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pop Gold | 2015 | TV Mini-Series writer - 1 episode | |
| Constantine | 2014 | TV Series writer - 1 episode | |
| Genesis: Together and Apart | 2014 | TV Movie documentary writer: "Anarchy in the UK" | |
| Ànima | 2013 | TV Series writer - 1 episode | |
| Fairport Convention, Who Knows Where the Time Goes? | 2012 | TV Movie writer: "Anarchy in the UK" | |
| London Calling | 2012 | TV Series documentary writer - 1 episode | |
| ¿Donde estabas tú en los 70? | 2012 | TV Movie writer: "God Save the Queen" | |
| Metal Evolution | 2011 | TV Series documentary writer - 1 episode | |
| W.E. | 2011 | lyrics: "Pretty Vacant" / music: "Pretty Vacant" | |
| Foo Fighters: Back and Forth | 2011 | Documentary writer: "Pretty Vacant" | |
| I Melt with You | 2011 | writer: "Pretty Vacant" | |
| Por Toda Minha Vida | 2007-2010 | TV Series writer - 2 episodes | |
| Get Him to the Greek | 2010 | writer: "Anarchy in the U.K." - as John Rotten | |
| The A-Team | 2010 | writer: "ANARCHY IN THE UK GUITAR HERO VERSION" | |
| Late Night with Jimmy Fallon | 2010 | TV Series writer - 1 episode | |
| Worried About the Boy | 2010 | TV Movie lyrics: "Anarchy In The UK" / writer: "Anarchy In The UK" | |
| The Runaways | 2010 | writer: "Pretty Vacant" | |
| Welcome to the 80's | TV Series documentary performer - 1 episode, 2009 writer - 1 episode, 2009 | ||
| Banda sonora | 2009 | TV Series writer - 1 episode | |
| SuperNews! | 2009 | TV Series writer - 1 episode | |
| Metal Machine Music: Nine Inch Nails and the Industrial Uprising | 2009 | Video documentary writer: "Anarchy in the UK" | |
| Guitar Hero World Tour | 2008 | Video Game writer: "Pretty Vacant" | |
| Maradona by Kusturica | 2008 | Documentary writer: "God Save The Queen" | |
| Waltz with Bashir | 2008 | Documentary writer: "This Is Not A Love Song" | |
| The Promotion | 2008 | writer: "Rise" 1986 | |
| Punklandia | TV Series documentary lyrics - 1 episode, 2008 writer - 1 episode, 2008 | ||
| South Park | 2007 | TV Series writer - 1 episode | |
| Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock | 2007 | Video Game writer: "Anarchy In The UK" - as Johnny Rotten | |
| Joy Division | 2007 | Documentary writer: "Pretty Vacant" - as Lydon | |
| Control | 2007 | Live version, as Johnny Lydon, "Problems" | |
| CHIKARA Tag World Grand Prix 2005, Night 1 | 2005 | Video writer: "Anarchy In The UK" - as Lydon | |
| On the Road | 2003 | Video documentary short writer: "Holidays in the Sun" - uncredited | |
| Lost in Translation | 2003 | writer: "God Save the Queen" 1977 | |
| Mayor of the Sunset Strip | 2003 | Documentary writer: "Holidays in the Sun" | |
| Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 4 | 2002 | Video Game writer: "Anarchy in the UK" | |
| The Rules of Attraction | 2002 | writer: "Rise" | |
| The Sopranos | 2002 | TV Series writer - 1 episode | |
| 24 Hour Party People | 2002 | writer: "Anarchy In The UK" | |
| Acústico MTV: Legião Urbana | 2001 | TV Movie writer: "On the Way Home" | |
| Walk on By: The Story of Popular Song | 2001 | TV Series documentary writer - 1 episode | |
| Freddy Got Fingered | 2001 | writer: "Problems" | |
| The Million Dollar Hotel | 2000 | writer: "Anarchy in the U.S.A." | |
| The Filth and the Fury | 2000 | Documentary writer: "God Save The Queen" Symphony, "Submission", "Seventeen", "Anarchy In The UK", "Pretty Vacant", "Did You No Wrong", "Liar", "EMI", "No Feelings", "I Wanna Be Me", "God Save The Queen", "Problems", "Holidays In The Sun", "Bodies" - as Lydon | |
| Whatever Happened to Harold Smith? | 1999 | writer: "Anarchy in the UK" | |
| Performance and Cocktails: Live at Morfa Stadium | 1999 | Video writer: "Holidays in the Sun" - as Rotten | |
| Rogue Trader | 1999 | writer: "Open Up" | |
| That '70s Show | 1999 | TV Series writer - 1 episode | |
| Omnibus | 1998 | TV Series documentary writer - 1 episode | |
| Basquiat | 1996 | writer: "Public Image", "Rise" | |
| Top of the Pops | TV Series writer - 3 episodes, 1977 - 1996 lyrics - 1 episode, 1978 | ||
| Hackers | 1995 | performer: "Open Up" / writer: "Open Up" | |
| The Flintstones | 1994 | writer: "ANARCHY IN THE UK" - as J. Lydon | |
| Green Jelly: Cereal Killer | 1992 | Video writer: "Anarchy in the U.K." | |
| Hasta luego cocodrilo | 1992 | TV Series writer - 1 episode | |
| Mystery Science Theater 3000 | 1991 | TV Series writer - 1 episode | |
| Point Break | 1991 | writer: "Criminal" - as Johnny Lydon | |
| Hardware | 1990 | writer: "The Order of Death" | |
| Slaves of New York | 1989 | writer: "Warrior" | |
| Hiding Out | 1987 | writer: "Seattle" | |
| Sid and Nancy | 1986 | writer: "God Save The Queen", "Anarchy In The UK", "No Feelings", "Holidays In The Sun", "Pretty Vacant", "Problems" - as Rotten | |
| Miami Vice | 1986 | TV Series writer - 1 episode | |
| Cool Cats: 25 Years of Rock 'n' Roll Style | 1983 | Video documentary writer: "Pretty Vacant", "Anarchy In The UK" - uncredited | |
| Party Party | 1983 | writer: "No Feelings" - as J. Rotten | |
| Anarchism in America | 1983 | Documentary writer: "Anarchy In The UK" - uncredited | |
| A Night at Halsted's | 1982 | writer: "Anarchy in the U.K." - uncredited | |
| American Pop | 1981 | writer: "Pretty Vacant" - as Johnny Rotten | |
| Fear No Evil | 1981 | writer: "Anarchy in the UK" | |
| D.O.A. | 1980 | Documentary writer: "Pretty Vacant", "Holidays in the Sun", "Bodies", "Anarchy in the U.K.", "New York", "E.M.I.", "Liar", "God Save the Queen", "I Wanna Be Me" | |
| The London Weekend Show | 1976 | TV Series writer - 1 episode |
Actor
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hold Tight! | 1982 | TV Series | Guest Artist |
| The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle | 1980 | The Collaborator (as Johnny Rotten) | |
| Football Kingdom | pre-production | Saul Hakim | |
| Sons of Norway | 2011 | Johnny Rotten (as Johnny Rotten) | |
| John Lydon: A Culture Show Special | 2010 | TV Movie | |
| Bad News Mr. Swanson | 2001 | TV Movie | Death |
| The Independent | 2000 | Baruce | |
| The Esperanto Family | 1990 | TV Mini-Series | Narrator |
| Order of Death | 1983 | Leo Smith |
Music Department
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sex Pistols: Agents of Anarchy | 2009 | TV Movie documentary composer: theme music |
Miscellaneous
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| Breakfast of Imbeciles | 2005 | Video words of wisdom and guidance - as Johnny Rotten |
Thanks
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lost in Translation | 2003 | thanks |
Self
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| Emerson: Pictures of an Exhibitionist | 2015 | post-production | Himself (rumored) |
| Steel Pulse: The Definitive Documentary | Documentary post-production | Himself | |
| The Greg Gutfeld Show | 2015 | TV Series | Himself |
| Lennon or McCartney | 2014 | Documentary short | Himself |
| This Week | 2014 | TV Series | Himself |
| Channel 4 News | 2014 | TV Series | Himself |
| Loose Women | 2014 | TV Series | Himself |
| Super Duper Alice Cooper | 2014 | Documentary | Himself (voice) |
| The Kate Bush Story: Running Up That Hill | 2014 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| Guth | 2013 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
| Question Time | 2012 | TV Series | Himself |
| Punk Britannia | 2012 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
| Beware of Mr. Baker | 2012 | Documentary | |
| The Hour | 2012 | TV Series | Himself |
| Glasnost Rock - Rock Summer 88 | 2011 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| The One Show | 2008-2011 | TV Series | Himself - Guest / Himself |
| Breakfast | 2010 | TV Series | Himself - Punk Rock Pioneer |
| Queens of British Pop | 2009 | TV Series | Himself |
| Sex Pistols: Agents of Anarchy | 2009 | TV Movie documentary | |
| Kenny & vänner | 2008 | TV Series | Himself - Guest |
| There'll Always Be an England | 2008 | Video | Himself |
| Red Eye w/Tom Shillue | 2008 | TV Series | Himself |
| The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson | 2007 | TV Series | Himself |
| Bodog Music Battle of the Bands | 2007 | TV Series | Himself |
| Seven Ages of Rock | 2007 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
| The Story of Punk | 2006 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| Jimmy Kimmel Live! | 2003-2006 | TV Series | Himself |
| Orange Playlist | 2006 | TV Series | Himself |
| The British Comedy Awards 2005 | 2005 | TV Special | Himself |
| John Lydon's Megabugs | 2005 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
| John Lydon: The Best of British £1 Notes | 2005 | Video | Himself |
| Heaven and Earth with Gloria Hunniford | 2005 | TV Series | Himself |
| Avenue of the Stars: 50 Years of ITV | 2005 | TV Special | Himself |
| Forty Years of Fuck | 2005 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| Blood on the Turntable | 2004 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
| Friday Night with Jonathan Ross | 2001-2004 | TV Series | Himself |
| I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here! | 2004 | TV Series | Himself |
| The Bronx Bunny Show | 2003 | TV Series | Himself |
| The Belzer Connection | 2003 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
| Classic Albums: Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols | 2002 | Video documentary | Himself - Vocals |
| VH-1 Where Are They Now? | 2002 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
| V Graham Norton | 2002 | TV Series | Himself |
| RI:SE | 2002 | TV Series | Himself |
| The Punk Years | 2002 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
| 100 Greatest Artists of Hard Rock | 2000 | TV Mini-Series documentary | HImself - Member, Sex Pistols |
| Tout le monde en parle | 2000 | TV Series | Himself |
| Rotten TV | 2000 | TV Series | Himself - Host |
| The Daily Show with Jon Stewart | 2000 | TV Series | Himself |
| Top Ten | 2000 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
| The Filth and the Fury | 2000 | Documentary | Himself (as Johnny Rotten) |
| Fantasy World Cup | 1998 | TV Series | Himself |
| Judge Judy | 1998 | TV Series | Himself |
| Politically Incorrect | 1997 | TV Series | Himself |
| Punk and the Pistols | 1995 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| The History of Rock 'N' Roll, Vol. 9 | 1995 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| Late Night with Conan O'Brien | 1994 | TV Series | Himself |
| The Word | 1992 | TV Series | Himself |
| X-Large | 1989 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
| Rockstop! | 1987 | TV Series | Himself - Interviewee |
| Public Image Ltd.: Videos | 1986 | Video short | Himself (as Public Image Ltd.) |
| Anarchy Movie '85 | 1985 | Video | Himself (as Public Image Ltd.) |
| Entrées de secours | 1983 | Short documentary | Lui-même (as Johnny Rotten) |
| Public Image Ltd.: Live in Japan '83 | 1983 | Video | Himself (as Public Image Ltd.) |
| D.O.A. | 1980 | Documentary | Himself (as Johnny Rotten) |
| Tomorrow Coast to Coast | 1980 | TV Series | Himself |
| British Rock | 1980 | Documentary | Himself (as Johnny Rotten) |
| Top of the Pops | 1979 | TV Series | Himself - Lead Singer: Public Image Ltd. |
| Juke Box Jury | 1979 | TV Series | Himself - Panelist |
| The Punk Rock Movie from England | 1978 | Documentary | Himself (as The Sex Pistols) |
| Today | 1976 | TV Series | Himself |
| The London Weekend Show | 1976 | TV Series | Himself |
| So It Goes | 1976 | TV Series | Himself |
Archive Footage
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pop Gold | 2015 | TV Mini-Series | Himself |
| Top of the Pops: The Story of 1979 | 2014 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| The 70s | 2012 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
| Top of the Pops: The Story of 1977 | 2012 | TV Movie documentary | Himself (uncredited) |
| Top of the Pops: The Story of 1976 | 2011 | TV Movie documentary | Himself (uncredited) |
| Welcome to the 80's | 2009 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
| British Style Genius | 2008 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
| Punklandia | 2008 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
| 'Abigail's Party' Pack | 2007 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| Por Toda Minha Vida | 2007 | TV Series | Himself |
| NY77: The Coolest Year in Hell | 2007 | TV Movie documentary | Himself (uncredited) |
| Final 24 | 2007 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
| Joy Division: Under Review | 2006 | Video documentary | Himself |
| Mayor of the Sunset Strip | 2003 | Documentary | Himself (as Johnny Rotten) |
| End of the Century | 2003 | Documentary | Himself (as Johnny Rotten) |
| 24 Hour Party People | 2002 | Himself (uncredited) | |
| Bad Hair Days | 2001 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| Rage: 20 Years of Punk Rock West Coast Style | 2001 | Documentary | Himself |
| 25 Years of Punk | 2001 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| If I Should Fall from Grace: The Shane MacGowan Story | 2001 | Documentary | Himself |
| Top of the Pops: The True Story | 2001 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| Top of the Pops | 1978-1996 | TV Series | Himself / Himself - Lead Singer: Public Image Ltd. |
| Dancing Barefoot | 1995 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| Cathode Fuck | 1986 | Video documentary | Himself, Member of Public Image Limited (PiL) |
| Cool Cats: 25 Years of Rock 'n' Roll Style | 1983 | Video documentary | Himself (as Johnny Rotten) |
| Sex Pistols Number 1 | 1977 | Short | Himself |