Johnny Rotten Goes Before TVs Judge Judy in 1997 ... and Wins!

Johnny Rotten Goes Before TVs Judge Judy in 1997 ... also, Wins! Johnny Rotten Goes Before TVs Judge Judy in 1997 and Wins! In the clasp above, ex-Sex Pistols pioneer John Lydon (otherwise known as Johnny Rotten) goes under the steady gaze of TV's Judge Judy in a 1997 scene of the daytime appear. How and why this came about I can't start to envision. The case is sufficiently direct. Robert Williams, previous drummer of Lydon's post-Pistols band Public Image Limited, brought suit against the punk symbol for penetrate of agreement and threatening behavior. Judy clearly couldn't care less much for Williams and considers him a nudnik. She appears to like Lydon, however, in spite of shushing his inconsiderate upheavals various occasions. It's additionally clear she has definitely no clue about what his identity is. I don't know from this band, she says, This last band I heard was Lawrence Welk… Jimmy Dorsey… Tommy Dorsey… I don't have the foggiest idea. Those are groups! Judy at last gets out Williams for expecting such a great amount of request in the midst of the disorder of the music business, and she excuses his suit. Furthermore, with respect to Johnny Rotten's odd fifteen minutes on daytime TV? Maybe this was the second Lydon's aspiration as a TV moderator was conceived, muses Dangerous Minds. Who knows? It's far from the renowned Bill Grundy meet, yet maybe not so distant from his broadcast showdowns of the accompanying barely any decades. In any case, consider as proof an a lot prior Lydon appearance on a 1979 TV court appear, Juke Box Jury (above), where Lydon and a board of famous people pass decisions on the current pop hits: It ain't the Donna Summers I know. I despise it. It was horrendous! by means of WFMU Related Content: Sex Pistols Frontman Johnny Rotten Weighs In On Lady Gaga, Paul McCartney, Madonna Katy Perry Quit worrying about the Bollocks, Here's . . . John Lydon in a Butter Commercial? Johnny Rotten's Cordial Letter to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: Next to the Sex Pistols, You're 'a Piss Stain' Josh Jones is an essayist and performer situated in Durham, NC. Tail him at @jdmagness