My tribute to John Lydon is in the YouBloom Quarter Finals

My song Johnny Rotten’s Still My Hero has made it through to the quarter finals of the YouBloom Music Awards I am proud to say. The song is a tribute to John Lydon, who formerly fronted the outrageous punk rock band the Sex Pistols, and then went on to be the singer and songwriter for PIL.
I wrote and recorded the song back in 2002 and was backed by a new girl group called The Somethings, whom I had met at a concert I was playing at the West End Centre in Aldershot. We became friends and they were inspired to put their own band together after watching my performance. The girls asked if they could play support to me if I ever played down there way again and I said they could go one better by being my backing band for a recording I was planning.
In true punk D-I-Y spirit we only had one rehearsal for the recording and just did it! The song was recorded at Raven Studios in Crawley.
Johnny Rotten’s Still My Hero also mentions David Icke by name in relation to his Reptilian conspiracy theory and how he claims that the late Princess Diana had called the Royal Family “the lizards.” The song was written to make reference to the Golden Jubilee of the Queen which took place in 2002. The Sex Pistols came to fame back at the last Jubilee before this when their song God Save The Queen was banned from airplay despite being at the top of the UK charts.
My song needs your votes to get through to the semi finals so please vote for it here: http://www.youbloom.com/ybsc/entry/2591/

About bardofely

I was born in Cardiff, Wales, and lived there until the end of 2004 when I relocated to Tenerife in the Canary Islands. Since 2014 I have lived in Portugal. My real name is Steve Andrews but I am also known as the Bard of Ely, a title given to me by Big Issue magazine in which I once had a column. I am a singer-songwriter, poet, author, freelance writer and naturalist but have also worked as a TV presenter and a compère at Glastonbury Festival.
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