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John Lydon says he’ll miss the Queen when she’s gone
By Andy Malt | Published on Wednesday 22 March 2017
John Lydon has said that he’ll miss the Queen when she dies. Well, she’s been very good for him, hasn’t she? He also hopes none of you lot does anything tasteless with the Sex Pistols’ ‘God Save The Queen’ when her maj does finally kick the bucket. Like try to get it to number one, a la ‘Ding Dong The Witch Is Dead’ upon Margaret Thatcher’s death.
“That [song’s] about a political situation and the demand for obedience to a monarchy I don’t believe in”, says Lydon on this week’s edition of The Quietus Radio Hour, due out later today. “But 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”.
It’s true, it’s not her fault she was born into the royal family. Though she could have used her stint in charge to wind down the whole bizarre institution of monarchy, couldn’t she? Still, rather than unnecessarily sticking it to her once she’s dead, perhaps we could all just focus on giving some grief to the new King Charlie. That’s probably everyone’s plan anyway, isn’t it?
