BBC bans Johnny Rotten in 1978 for outing Jimmy Saville

what a completely turn left field here a nun broadcast section of a BBC ready interview you didn't 1978 recently came to Lyon included on a pill album and you were talking about making a film where you killed famous people now it has never been played on television before but it has a particular relevance let's listen to this so who else is on the goner list though it's Angelus believe me I just want to make a film of it on film I must kill Jimmy Savile I think he's a hypocrite when I write that he's into all kinds and seediness to build know about we're not allowed to talk about I know some rumors I bet none of this will be allowed out I should imagine libelous stuff with Jana nothing I said is libel sounds bit harsh day deathless there well but I sometimes you you're contentious in life just because you're bored of that program but beside though and put aside that the rhetoric you were using the fact that in 1978 at the height of the Sex Pistols explosion there you are saying about Jimmy Savile he was into all kinds of seediness that we all knew about we weren't allowed to talk about it I know some rumors so you you had heard the kind of thing that we now know about him or yeah or stuff like that yeah I think most kids did too nice kids want you to go to Top of the Pops but we all knew what that cigar muncher was up to but I'm very very bitter that the likes of Savile and the rest of them were allowed to continue did you ever try and do anything about subol I did my bit I said with her head - did they air that no he just got suppressed yeah the legal reason yeah and did you make I found myself I found myself being banned from BBC Radio there for quite a while for my contentious behavior because of though they wouldn't state this directly they debate other excuses only shocking oh yeah he got away with it for another 30 odd years and not only him but whole bunch of them and these are the purveyors of good taste huh you were too offensive brilliant innit yeah well I'm still here from the rest of them was still alive I spit to jail time for them jail time how to read this the BBC has said it's appalled by savage crimes and that the Dame Janet Smith review is considering the culture and practices of the BBC during that period

Channel: Ghost Pictures

Views: 3,132,623

Rating: 4.9103179 out of 5

Keywords: BBC, Johnny Rotten, Jimmy Saville

Id: v4OzI9GYag0

Length: 2min 49sec (169 seconds)

Published: Fri Nov 06 2015

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[u/zerbey]

The Sex Pistols said a ton of stuff that was just provocative for the sake of it. It was what they were about. At the time people would have just dismissed it as anti establishment talk.

[u/Painless8]

It seems that sometimes the most wholesome characters turn out to be monsters, and the 'bad' ones are actually the good guys. Marilyn Manson seems like a pretty nice bloke, Bill Cosby not so much.

[u/EastGlencoe]

Johnny Rotten's a bit of a twat but when he's right he's right.

To be fair, being a living legend of punk rock must be a bit of hard mantle.

[u/DoctorLongJohnson]

Piers Morgan is a cancer.

[u/duradura50]

Saville was a big cash cow through his 'charity' work (the type of charity which goes straight into the pockets of the rich).

And that is why he got away with what he did for at least 40 years, even though it was the most open secret ever.

Saville died in 2012 and that once open secret became public knowledge a few years later, despite the very best efforts of the BBC to cover it up. In fact, those who did the covering up of his crimes should face justice.

[u/[deleted]]

So does this make anyone take pause with the odd statements and behavior from Shia Labeouf and Corey Feldman?

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[u/Lanhdanan]

So many people ignored and allowed it to continue and even more silenced. For decades.

Makes you wonder what more monsters run among the affluent class with their fancy lawyers and respectable decision making.

[u/goteamnick]

Just for the record, you cannot make allegations like that against someone on the radio, and expect it to be aired. The radio station would be liable to a huge defamation lawsuit.

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And Piers Morgan is carrying on like Johnny Rotten was banned from the BBC for that interview, when the Sex Pistols had been blacklisted a year earlier for this interview. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XGe_hncsiM

[u/designgoddess]

I heard pretty credible stories about Bill Cosby in the 80s. Seemed like most people in Hollywood knew and didn’t care.