Talk:John Lydon

Confusing to me
the sentence "Lydon was kicked out of school at age fifteen after a run-in with a teacher, and went on to attend Hackney College, where he befriended John Simon Ritchie, and Kingsway Princeton College." is confusing to me. Kingsway Princeton College? is that someone's name or a college? lol. Forgive me, I'm not familiar with Kingsway Princeton College. Givemedonuts (talk) — Preceding undated comment added 15:07, 26 January 2021 (UTC)


 * Princeton College was the name of a college in Camden that changed its name to Kingsway College before 2000.It merged with Westminster College to become Westminster College. It has an impressive list of notable alumni. 82.2.89.219 (talk) 10:28, 30 March 2024 (UTC)
 * Should say it became "Westminster Kingsway College" after the merge. 82.2.89.219 (talk) 10:29, 30 March 2024 (UTC)

Jimmy Savile abuse scandal citation
Someone with better knowledge than me should fix the citation I just added on the section about the 1978 interview in which he mentioned the rumours around Jimmy Savile – as it stands, it points to a YouTube clip, but it should refer to the actual episode of the show in question. rariteh (talk) 07:12, 1 June 2021 (UTC)

Mislabelling / section-title correction
Mislabelling an individual's beliefs about children-raising / dynamics-of, as "gay marraige", is missing the point about who's included in a person's rejections of any/all EXcluded, by their belief -  i.e.  if Johnny ALSO rejects hetro-single parents, or single-parent adoptions, etc, then he is only-INcluding gay couple adoption/similar, in a, as-much-as-any-that-do-not (create an orthodox/anthrpological/natural environment (pairing, sexual(gendered) animals,.. whatever.))

i.e. he NEITHER said anything that ONLY,.. specifically,.. targeted,.. gay couples in terms of child-raising / households,

NOR was he making a point about gay marriage, were all-marriages FOR, sitations of adoption  -  as in, not every marraige LEADS to aoption, or IVF or similar(one bixesual woman, etc)

If the failure is reasonably short-sighted in terms of a generalisation about what in the media at that time, was being FOCUSED on, in-issue, in relation to gay marriage, then THAT, is the issue at hand.

in other words, it would be both proper AND more-accurate, to make a section on his past-opinion about non-orthodox/natural child-rearing.

This page, has it as, "gay marraige".

that's MORE, than what he was actually saying/said. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 120.21.34.192 (talk) 19:55, 21 March 2022 (UTC)
 * Yes I think I see what you are saying although respectfully it is not easy to understand clearly what you mean. His comments are relating to the specific issue of same sex parenting in regards to his views on the traditional family structure - rather than that of gay marriage explicitly. He believes that a male and female need to be raising the child and anything out of this leads to the child missing something. Wiki being a political space - it is not surprise that the section title is something like this. It should probably be renamed "Views on Same sex marriages in relation to parenting" though, but that is also quite longwinded. So while you say there should be a "past section" on his views - we also don't know that his views have changed and so, we can only go by what evidence we have; thus the section should stay but perhaps be renamed. Glaaaastonbury88 (talk) 14:51, 9 January 2023 (UTC)

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Duplication
Under PiL to present, we've got the Israel controversy and then again in a section below about boycotts. The entire passage is repeated. Cheers Thelisteninghand (talk) 21:43, 7 March 2023 (UTC)