The irony of it all. The 70s badboy was the only one who had the guts to speak out against the true monster. It's always the rebels you ultimately respect and the overly polite good people who have so much to hide.
And yet today we still silence the rebels instead of listening to them as soon as someone speaks out against the status quo they are shouted down, have we learned nothing?
@@joelguiton9102 this means he implies something is wrong now with the left in its values. They have become the vile establishment. WAKE UP! There is no more real liberalism anymore!
My respect for Johnny Rotten just skyrocketed after watching this. He's the hero we always needed, and the fact that he was vilified for calling out a legit monster for years on end is absolutely disgusting.
Chris denning, dave Lee Travis, rolf Harris, garry glitter, max Clifford, Stuart hall, and quite possiy a good few more. It seems there are a lot of wrong 'uns at the BBC
Johnnys whole career is honorable if u didn't have high honor for him in the beginning then you won't in the end. Yall will keep hating and loving him saying how he's dumb arrogant and obnoxious and then later how he's a "national treasure" and legend. The dull can never understand the artist not even death can help your fractured minds.
anyone rich who sides with the poor is a champagne socialist... i'm not knocking the idea of it.. i think its sound, I think those who are poor who agree with conservative ideas should be called champagne conservatives.
Oh bollocks...... he didn't tell the truth about Saville cos he didn't know th truth about Saville....... this is all said now, 30 yrs after the abuse took place...... Don't try and tell me thet Lydon tried to blow the whistle on Saville because he didn't..... He called Saville a "hypocrite"........ not a paedo.
Man, Lydon nailed it. He spoke up about it but no one was going to do anything about it. Now they bitch and complain about it, but Savile is already dead.
Kutta Kyte He or nobody could prove it was the truth at the time but obviously now we know he was right, he just happened to mention that he "heard some rumours" about savile.
The Irony of a man named Johnny rotten (the face of punk music) exposing rotten people. It's beautiful. When I was in grade 8, my teacher made me leave class because I wore a sex pistols shirt. The man who everybody feared, was right all along.
Shook Ones because people hate facts even if it was presented at face value, but still nobody could give a damn and this’s why corruption with in media, Hollywood and other various organizations have gotten away with so much because people fear the truth and what would happen if there was retaliation from those organizations!!! That’s why some many actors, actresses, ppl in the music sphere have all died under weird deaths!!!!
@@graemenicol6377 Because not one paper in the country would have printed it, never in a million years. Savile was a protected man, practically untouchable.
Johnny Rotten is a fiercely intelligent man indeed . after watching this clip my respect for him is off the scale indeed . he has more morals and integrity than any of the establishment indeed
Not just the BBC higher up in power did, his life would off been on the line even members off his family and he new it that why he not say much even to this day he not say.
I honestly think politicians, police commanders and members of the Royal family should be investigated independently. Savile's type of crimes are often taking place within the higher echelons of our society. And they have the power to make sure those crimes don't fall under any spotlight.
If you want to see the warmest documentary you'll ever watch, look on here for Never mind the Baubles. Its about the pistols playing a benefit gig in huddersfield on xmas eve 77. You get the real pistols and what they were really doing. Prepare to feel the love...
@@J5X7 there was a lot more to them than you think. They were obviously being notorious to create headlines to sell more records but watch the documentary Never mind the Baubles and you'll see the good stuff they kept quiet because they knew the scandalous stuff brought in more money. Watch that documentary for an example of the good they done. It's also a magic watch.
@@J5X7 they are well overrated musically. A handful if decent songs. Mark e smith summed them up when he said they were a decent garage band on the first album but then just a novelty act. You're right in that lydon really protects his 'brand'
Well done Johnny. I also got in trouble for calling Saville out. I grew up in the care system. We knew about the nasty Jimmy, and couldn't understand why people thought he was such a nice guy. I then met him fourty years later in the Gibraltar cruise line terminal. I refuse to serve him and told him clearly that I knew who and what he was. I thought the truth would never come out. Many kids reported him. The police knew what he was. He was just untouchable. And he was just the tip of the iceberg.
He said one thing once in 78, then didn't go to the police, didn't go to the press. Nothing for years. Then he kept taking credit, he didn't do anything.
The thing that gets me about this is even now no one is holding the BBC to account for this. They funded, enabled, protected and then covered up for Saville, Harris... the lot. Disgraceful.
dumbass wtf about epstein or did you forget so soon how they redacted every name and no one got arrested huh how odd unless theres more on the list then you realize like say gates, and many more..... you mindless fruiyloop.
The more I learn about John Lydon, the more I loved him even more. He's the real deal that the elitists hated. We need more Johnny Rotten in this rotten world.
It 's the same with the fictional character Wolfie Smith ' if you watch the show Citizen Smith ' you can relate to his often ill fated tactics to fight the establishment all in the name of freedom.
John Lydon is a very intelligent, very articulate, very outspoken, brutally honest, and a very interesting man...His life is the stuff of legends, and there's never a boring moment, when he's around.
Honest? He was on BBC and TOTPs in 1979. He claims he was banned from BBC radio but this is nonsense as they were playing PIL tracks throughout the late 70s. And why would they ban him from BBC radio and then have him performing on TOTPs?
When I was about 14 my father and I had a discussion regarding modern society and he told me that while water runs downhill the sewer of society runs uphill and the higher up the echelons the worse it becomes. Since then I have realized through particular events that he was 100% correct
The higher uphill you go, the less normal empathic people you'll meet, up to a level where the majority are narcissistic psychopaths. The royal family and high nobility are even intently brought up like that. They will for example remove an infant from the mother for long times and ignore its crying, as to develop in them a degree of psychopathy and counter the normal development of empathic traits. Just listen to royals like king Charles or the late prince Philip, one laments that there are too many humans in this world, the other hopes to reincarnate as a deadly virus or plague.
Another, similar saying I heard from my great aunt is 'The scum rises to the top'. Certainly seems to be true in many cases - politics, finance/banking, corporations, these public school (mostly men) are a particular problem in this country uk. Not in every case, of course, but far, far too many cases
The reason why higher ups are so sinister bcoz they can afford to nd they are capable of getting away if someone else's capable of that they would've done the same in west most of the crimes are done specific group of people nd the government doesn't share their identity in public
it's a bit ironic that in a piece exposing BBC's cover up when johnny says "not only him but a whole bunch of them" the Rottweiler Piers Morgan demonstrates an incredible lack of curiosity as to who those others were
because ppl like him think its fine to seem outraged about people actually caught but keep the silence for those who are yet to be found out, business as usual.
"Did you ever try to do something about it?" So many people having a go at Lyndon over this, but let's not forget that "Jonny Rotton" was the most hated man in Britain and saville was the most loved, what chance did he have to do anything about this other than to voice his opinion, as he did?
Exactly. He did do something about it by speaking out and what happened? His interview was banned and he was banned by the BBC for years. I fail to se what more he could have done. Lets not forget, this was 1970's Britain where public figures like nonceville could do no wrong and people like Johnny Lydon were looked on as a trouble makers
But he was supposed to be a rebel. You know, two fingers outside Buckingham Palace. He said he heard "rumours". Yet he doesn't have the balls to save other potential victims because the BBC said no? Wanker
Yes I do.But he set himself up as 'the antichrist-an anarchist' didn't he? The BBC interviewed Savile with a view to sacking him and questioned him about the stories. But nobody came forwards. All those ones that now say 'oh we all knew' but were on the gravy train. And now he says 'I was right weren't I?' No. Because all you heard were rumours. And you did nothing. Like the rest of them.
I really admire John Lydon for speaking out. It's a shame honest people like him were ignored. It shows how powerful they thought jimmy savile was. It was as if savile was head of the BBC
Back in 1978 I was an old Fart, hated Johny and his Pistols "he will corrupt the young". Now I am a young oldie, because I realise the only corruption is in the Governments and the BBC. Johns right, and he helped free a lot of young people from a corrupt establishment. Cant say I took to his music, but, the words in his songs are so true. Respect for John.
We used to watch Jim'll Fix It as it was fun to watch and to see those children having their dreams come true. Back then it was very difficult to be able to do the things that those children wanted to do. But there was always a nagging feeling about him. No self respecting teenager or young adult would want to go on that show as they had already sussed him out. There were only three channels at the time and even when Channel Four first started you couldn't watch it on older TV sets as they only had three buttons. You could only watch them on the TV sets with a dial for the channels. And in Wales you could only get S4C unless you had a second aerial pointing to the Mendip receiver. So I missed out on the first few years of Channel Four. The BBC in the 80's hadn't moved on much from the 60's and 70's and in some ways it was better in the 70's with Play for Today, the Good Life, the Goodies, Steptoe and Son, Monty Python's Flying Circus and Fawlty Towers. So effectively in the 80's it was regressing rather than standing still with programmes to fit in with Thatcher's Britain and Mary Whitehouse. ITV hadn't moved on either. So unless you could get Channel Four there wasn't much to watch on TV then. Ironically Channel Four was ground breaking with its programmes such as Brookside and The Comic Strip in the 80's and Queer as Folk in the 90's yet they didn't knowingly employ paedophiles.
@Knobcore I’m a musician myself and back in the mid 90’s I wrote an anti-abortion song called “The Extortionist And The Abortionist” from an aborted foetus’ perspective. I haven’t recorded it, but I still have the lyrics to it.
He has an honesty almost to the point of brutality. I know he sometimes likes to play up to the media, but he's always worth listening to. And he's not a hypocrite like some, those suppressing Savile's seediness, for instance.
Lydon did not out Jimmy Savile in 1978, nor was he banned from the BBC Lydon spoke of Savile in an interview for radio in 1978 that was never broadcast until after Savile's death. The interview from 1978 can be found here on RU-vid which Lydon says he wants to kill 200 famous people including Mick Jagger and Savile. Even a broken clock is right twice a day. Lydon was not banned from the BBC in 1978. He was banned from live interviews. All the videos below can be found on RU-vid He is on Juke Box Jury in 1979. TOTP in 1979 - Deaths Disco TOTP in 81 - Flowers of Romance Savile died on 29 Oct 2011. His crimes were exposed nearly a year later by the ITV Exposure programme broadcast on 3 Oct 2012. Lydon included the interview as a bonus track on re-release of the first album PiL in 2013
Lydon did not out Jimmy Savile in 1978, nor was he banned from the BBC Lydon spoke of Savile in an interview for radio in 1978 that was never broadcast until after Savile's death. The interview from 1978 can be found here on RU-vid which Lydon says he wants to kill 200 famous people including Mick Jagger and Savile. Even a broken clock is right twice a day. Lydon was not banned from the BBC in 1978. He was banned from live interviews. All the videos below can be found on RU-vid He is on Juke Box Jury in 1979. TOTP in 1979 - Deaths Disco TOTP in 81 - Flowers of Romance Savile died on 29 Oct 2011. His crimes were exposed nearly a year later by the ITV Exposure programme broadcast on 3 Oct 2012. Lydon included the interview as a bonus track on re-release of the first album PiL in 2013
Stop giving credence to Johnny's lies. He was never banned from the BBC in the slighest. In fact, the year after the radio interview, he did the Peel Sessions with PiL, PiL appeared on _ToTP_ playing "Death Disco", and did other appearances there (including the famous _OGWT_ performance with "Poptones") up until their hiatus in '92 or so (a search for PiL BBC proves this!), and Lydon would do the _Dancing in the Streets_ (1994/5) and _Seven Ages of Rock_ (2007) documentaries, in particular, the episodes where they talked about punk. Safe to say that he was close to the mark with Savile, but he was never banned from the BBC.
@@CrossCuntryFranco Sounds like John Lydon didn't know more than he said. He called Saville a "hypocrite" and nothing more. If he'd known more he could have done more. He SHOULD have.
i was born in 71 and remember asking my mum if me and my younger brother could go on jim'll fix it, be about 77 78 and she just said NO there is something i dont like about that man, there is something that dont ring true! my mother knew just by seeing him around children on tv!
Prince Andrew appeared on that show. What a coincidence that he's a close friend of Epstein. The royal family are guilty once again of housing pedophiles. What a disgrace. British people worshipping pedophiles and funding their luxurious lifestyles, when are you going to wake up? Coincidence that Charles was an associate of Savile?
@@raydenwins1071 thing is you have any idea how many people the royals know or have met, and statistically speaking everyone of us is likely to meet a paedophile at some point or already know one who hasnt been exposed the difference is our lives are not under a microscope
My husband said he and his sister use to want to go on Jim'll Fix It! when they were young and my father in law gave them a long speech on people like him and how they are to familiar with children he said at the time he didn't understand the ins and out but as he got older he could see it for himself what his dad meant.
Remember how Saville had that chair with all the hidden features on that show. I wonder if that was a sly allusion by whichever BBC staffer designed it to suggest there were things about Saville that people didn't openly know.
He's a good man. He just had a mouth that was a little too wide for the time he was most famous in. He's had his faults of course, but who hasn't? At least his faults weren't anything as heinous as Saville's eh?
Mikail Elchanovanich True. If everybody was just good and behaved ( and played their music at reasonable volumes ) the world would be a very boring place!
That piers is the greatest hypocrite of them all. Had this innerview taken place at any point prior to saviles death, he would have been slamming rotten like all the rest of mass mainstream. But now all of a sudden he's acting oh so knowledgeable and pontificating on the decline of the moral fabric at the big black c...😅😅😅 It's all laughable actually 😅😅
John Lydon was and always will be ahead of his time. He’s moral and sees fame for what it is. The more I see of him over the years the more I’m a fan of how unflappably himself he always was and remains.
All of you saying; why didn't he say something ?He did!! But he was silenced.And more to the point, society are brainwashed sheep.Have you tried to tell ignorant people the truth? They laugh at you and think that you are crazy.
+Clark Graham Lots of people knew what was going on but trying to be a whistle blower would leave you with out a carrer. It's not that people are sheep, they are well aware of the situation but want to keep their jobs. An Mr Rotten was one of those people.
Paul H I was being a bit harsh. Yea, it seems like a lot more has gone on than I ever thought. I always thought there was a lot more abuse than was seen back in the 80's, and I it still happens.
Polly Potter You're right, and it is so depressing. It's all been fix now right ? The thing that I see is that the major paedos, ie Savile, and MP's only ever get caught when they are dead or dying. It's a brilliant trick. Oh the other one is to be a priest.
+Polly Potter Yes Polly you are correct as soon as anyone in the Showbiz business attempts to expose the abuses openly perpetrated against innocent young people they are ostracized. Its a case of career over all the doors shut as you become a danger to the established practices. It is not just showbiz either I tried to report Government Officials/Employees and found the machine turned on me. Read my book on Amazon 'Psychic Screw'.
Johnny Rotten was and is a very honest person. He was straight up about his own life, and was very decent to people who worked with him. He was an indefatigable performer, once going onstage when he had the flu, running offstage between songs to throw up, telling fans he could only do one encore because he had the flu. This was in a small club, and the fans said, “Naw, you’re sick, go take car3 of yourself. You should have said so sooner!” Next time he played that club, he did a 30 min encore set to thank his fans. The whole Jimmy Saville/Gary Glitter debacle was known about on both sides of the pond, and tolerated if not encouraged, why, I could never figure out. Shameful. Kudos to Johnny for having the backbone to stand up and say when kids are being preyed upon by powerful (or any) pervs.
I saw him perform more than once, and he was no angel! I went to Leeds Fan Club (known as the eff club, obviously) with my sister, to see PIL among others. He spent the 20 minute set with his back to the audience growling into the mike. We didn't care too much. I was a huge fan and that was the spirit of the day.
Dear dear,as children we didn't have a television set till I was twelve but I had a friend who watched it avidly and loved the Jimmy Savile show I watched it with her but found him totally weird we didn't know much about pedophiles at that time so I couldn't really identify what I found so weird and possibly it was just revulsion how many children were taken in by him and the fact that it was covered up by the BBC and the establishment at that time even the Royal family were fooled its a deplorable situation that was allowed to happen thank you John Lydon
@@upturnedblousecollar5811Yes. He didn't stand up to any of them at all. Including Saville. He just muttered that he knew something and then shut up about it..He is no hero.
What an absolute legend Johnny Rotten is he always knew and told the truth it was a disgrace how nobody listened it would’ve saved all them poor children it sickens me to the core
Absolute sickening that Saville and his cronies were allowed to get away with it and the BBC, Police and Government did nothing about it. Makes you think who else was involved and who got away with it.
The fact it didn't come out until he died should tell you everything. The police went after the easy targets the higher ups in the BBC, NHS and probably the Police Service got away with it I have no doubt it went higher than its been reported how else do you explain the cover ups and lack of police action over the years all the higher ups were in on it with him or Savile knew some of their other dirty washing
Well he’s friends with royals an politicians an to get close to the royals the mi5 know the ins an outs of your arsehole so he had files on the people in power he’s even stated it to Louis Theroux every one turned a blind eye shame but nothing has changed we all know Andrew is a nonce
Notice that he mentions "and others" with a dangerous flicker, then keeps a close eye on Piers, who immediately moves on from what was clearly a lead...
this man is a hero! god bless him it's just really disgusting how the BBC enabled and protected a monster for as long as they did, and they still refuse to apologize about it
Nothing but admiration for this man. He was patient and knew he was right. He didn’t have to crusade. He was a musician and an artist. He heard enough rumors to know about smoke and fire.
Apology for what? He was never banned by the BBC, his comments were unaired the same way anyone making unsubstantiated and potentially liablous comments to any media outlet would have the same thing happen. He was on the BBC regularly after his comments. Don't be so gullible as to believe verbose stories from celebrities. Lydon was lying.
@@kevinrussell2718: yeah but I doubt it was broadcasted live, usually they'd record with a delay of some minutes in case someone says something it shouldn't be said... Well, in some cases I'm guessing.
He never spoke out at all Eliza, he only said what everyone knew , I'm a massive pistols lydon fan , but if he knew anything at all he should've went to police papers media but he never for sake of his career , in saying nothing it allowed them to carry on abusing if I knew an abuser or abusers I would've spoken out and fuck the consequences . He said and did nothing .
It doesn't matter who would've believed him just by speaking out and airing it in public would've been enough for anybody to take notice . He said nothing and now wants to take all credit he's a fake . And I am a big lydon fan but he needs to stop this shit now
Thing is Savile was part of the club which included the "privileged" people in society. Those in that club will never speak out against others otherwise it'll end their career. Anyone in the BBC who wanted to keep earning a living kept their head down and ears closed as it was (and perhaps still is) an odd cloistered world. Savile was known for hosting coffee mornings with senior police officers and often schmoozed with other establishment bigwigs, and I'm sure he posed for pictures with all of them - and nobody would want those in the public domain with the awkward questions that would follow. Savile did the crimes but others were complicit in their silence.
this is part of "the deep state" and how its holds power... once you are in you cant escape. Many such reports still today with same "senior" faces, still the whistleblower targeted and ignored, and the media is missing in action.. same as it ever was.
Savile said that Mountbatten introduced him to the Royal family back in the early 1960s as a 'useful contact'. How could a commoner DJ be a 'useful contact' for the Royals at any time?
Because he had access to their drug of choice. Young children. So, he was like any drug dealer. A useful contact 😡they are all despicable. Yes all of them.
Supply and Demand, It's the basis of all Service Industry. You got the money and the prestige, I got the product. Saville wasn't in Buck House or Windsor playing records and CD's. As for Mountbatten, if only the world knew the truth.
Try and name a part of British society that is not infected or run by paedophiles, Royalty, the Police, The CSA, The Church, The BBC, Child Welfare Services, Politicians, Celebrities, the Media etc etc Maybe the Army and Navy but I doubt it. i often wonder how Islam managed to get such a strong foothold in the UK with its acceptance of child brides, I wonder no more. The Uk is riddled with Paedofiles like a cancer. if all the Paedophiles in the UK died suddenly we would have very few people left in any position of power. it's a sickness that destroys lives.
Of course, which is why he didn't actually say anything in the interview, wasn't banned from the BBC and continued to appear on its programmes, enjoyed several decades of being interviewed in print, on radio and TV and...never said anything about it at all.
@@gavpowell7864 he knew there was no point. The media can control EVERYTHING people try and speak up about. If he tried to speak out again, it would just be edited out. The past couple of years have shown this very well...
@@gavpowell7864 Except he WAS banned from the BBC for a time, as this video makes quite clear. And even these allusions he DID make regarding Savile's behaviour were censored and never allowed onto the airwaves. Within that political climate, he was in no position to say or do anything more that would either be published, or be taken seriously.
@@firedoesnotdiscriminate What the hell could he do beyond saying his piece? He's a musician, not a criminal prosecutor. By that logic, you are as guilty as the rest of them too!
John Lydon is an honest, totally reliable and honourable man. He's never to afraid to speak his mind and you can guarantee that it's always the truth as he sees it. Much respect!!!
The bosses at the bbc were as guilty as saville for turning a blind eye to his antics which they knew about . John Lydon should have a full apology from the bbc .
May Johnny be blessed with a long, happy and healthy life! The courage to speak up has to be rewarded. We're living in pivotal times, and the odds seem to be against the honest and brave. Calling evil by one of its many names is risky as ever. You can lose your job, social standing or even your life. But if you stay silent, you're dead already, you just don't know it!
+Thundereous One he's more than enough of a hero more than most he never had any power to get anywhere or change anything why aren't you blowing parliament Congress no.11 whitehouse you make a change then goon instead of giving yourself more cancer to write a pointless comment. goon.
minners71 he did a damn sight more than the rest of them- everyone knew. Still fucking idiots worship royalty as if they’re not routinely raping and ritualistically killing our children’s .
Did you all catch the most important part of John's statement? "Not only him(Saville) but a whole bunch of them. A statement so up to date today its scary!
@Beefad 1 they clearly support the establishment / the Tories at heart, some people on the BBC might be left leaning but the bulk of what it does supports the goverments narrative because they have a Tory at the head and they will get their funding attacked if they dont do as they are told. Any one who wants to argue they are a left leaning establishment please bring some facts.
@Beefad 1 find me an article critising the goverment on their site now. Find them report the details about Princess Andrew, or the truth about our covid figures. No they prefer to display what they are told by the goverment. So its a fluff peice about beeches or why you should go out to eat even though we are still facing a pandemic. Goverment wants the economy working again and the expendable peons are told to do it by the loyal propoganda machine. If you dont see it you are truly brainwashed by your over lords. I have a joke for you about trickle down economics, but only 1% would get it. P.S. Just look at how they attacked J.C. over and over and tell me that they are supporting the political left. I think that is where we have our wires crossed. You are upset that people cant be racist and not be called out, I am upset that we are living in an Orwellian nightmare forcing what it pretends to be progressive ideas out in a draconian manner.
@Beefad 1 You know what I think we agree on a few things to be fair. They are just meaningless slogans. There are good people and bad people on all sides of things. Personnally I feel the bad ones are in charge but that is subjective and truth be told probably wouldn't change much if we had someone else. I guess the best any of us can do is use our voices and comments to try and make sense of it. I do not think that the media is on the side of the people (getting away from terms such as left and right), most of it is owned by a very small and very rich group. Everything has an agenda these days, we have to do our own research and draw our own conclussions, we just happen to disagree on one sources agenda.
Having been abused (every way except sexual) myself, this guy is a hero to me. Not one single person believed & supported me, never mind speaking up for me! It just makes me angry that people wouldn't listen to him & put a stop to kids being hurt in the worst ways possible! This guy put his livelihood on the line to speak up for those who couldn't speak up for themselves. It's very sad that we live in a world where speaking up for vulnerable people isn't the norm, & even discouraged!
Do you have any advice on getting past this trauma? I appreciate this is a really personal question but I'm going through recovery from it myself right now
I remember him saying this and he was right but no one listened, how the BBC did not look into what he said is unbelievable..... Good for him speaking out.
Lydon did not out Jimmy Savile in 1978, nor was he banned from the BBC Lydon spoke of Savile in an interview for radio in 1978 that was never broadcast until after Savile's death. The interview from 1978 can be found here on RU-vid which Lydon says he wants to kill 200 famous people including Mick Jagger and Savile. Even a broken clock is right twice a day. Lydon was not banned from the BBC in 1978. He was banned from live interviews. All the videos below can be found on RU-vid He is on Juke Box Jury in 1979. TOTP in 1979 - Deaths Disco TOTP in 81 - Flowers of Romance Savile died on 29 Oct 2011. His crimes were exposed nearly a year later by the ITV Exposure programme broadcast on 3 Oct 2012. Lydon included the interview as a bonus track on re-release of the first album PiL in 2013
Actually fries my brain the fact no one investigated the entire depravity! An adult's job is to protect a child. They were all let down. Good on Mr Rotten for trying.
15 year old Claire McAlpine was a dancer on Top of the pops and left a diary outlining the abuse she suffered at the hands of several well known people in the entertainment industry, very possibly Savile. She was written off as a fantasist and fame hungry. She committed suicide in 1971. We now know there's a very good chance that she was telling the truth. Poor girl.
@@hanorabrennan8846 He didn't put anything out there, all he did was say "I've heard some rumours..." Note the only thing he actually accuses Saville of is hypocrisy. Hardly the first thing that comes to mind if you're exposing a paedophile is it? Like saying you outed Weinstein because you said you thought he was a poor businessman.
I have the utmost respect for Johnny Rotten. It's just a pity he wasn't allowed to say his piece before now. The main problem with celebrities such as Saville is that as long as they did charity work, establishments turned a blind eye. In a documentary made after Saville's death, in which hospital staff where interviewed about his "visits " to see patients, they admitted they were told to ignore what he did, because if it got out, they'd lose the funding his charity work provided. So in theory, who can you trust.
Just to be clear, it was the charity work which guaranteed contact with vulnerable little girls in hospitals and care homes. Not that this scarcely hidden motivation was ever examined or acknowledged.
@@EarnshawfullyHe was a Catholic and also seems to have believed that doing good works in this life would somehow exonerate him for the evil things he did. I wonder if that bizarre thinking was shared by the priests that have abused children globally and who mostly got away with it. There's just been another shocking report - Spain this time, and many bishops got angry and refused to cooperate with the inquiry.
He did raise, or help raise, a heck of a lot of money for charity, but if I were the head of one of those charities and knew about his activities, I think I would look for other funding. The rejection doesn't have to be rude, just firm and polite. The damage he caused his victims isn't worth even the amount he raised in charitable donations.
@@timmellor2599 I doubt anyone had the courage to consider ditching a guy with a knighthood and a Papal knighthood too, a friend of Prime Ministers and royalty. He was protected.
It's not just about charity work it's more about people in "power" the higher ups "royals" people with titles just to cover up they ALL just want to F young people eat all the real food while we get "food" do drugs and yeah bla bla ( if u know u know)
I was in my teens in the early 1960's, when Saville was emerging as the ex-coal miner made good as a DJ / TV personality, riding around in a Rolls Royce, smoking cigars, dressing outrageously and dying his hair blond. But all the teenagers I went around with knew the rumours about his vile ways even then. If we did, and it was so widely known to the public, how come nobody else did, and how was it that no one did anything about it?
I was only born in 85 but always thought Jimmy was creepy too. That's not really enough for a police investigation though. He actively cultivated that creepy air too, it's a kind of genius when you think about how that gave him an excuse when an accusation was made. Remember there would only have been one accusation at a time, no one was making a database of this kind of stuff.
I knew about Jimmy Seville in 1975 when my cousin (who was working at Stoke Mandeville) told me. I didn’t believe him at the time but it lodged in my memory. And if l knew then, thousands of others must have also known.
Search YT for ITNJ jon wedger this will explain how they get away with it. When police are part of the cover up, they are part of the problem. But i must say the vast majority are good.
@Kev Dale He said he wanted to kill 200 people, then he said there were 5 people he wouldn't kill. Doesn't make Jimmy Savile very special to him does it?
its remarkable how there are a few musicians who fall into that category, be it zappa, hendrix, marley, cobain, they all told hart truths, but were branded as disturbers of the peace.
Being an American, I never even heard of Jimmy Saville until a few years after he died. He was never famous over here. The more I know about him, the more I realize that he put Bill Cosby to shame. Saville was a true psychotic.
As far back as the start of the 1970s in the UK..there was rumours and accusations about savile and his private life... I actually said to my step dad in the early 00s that savile looked like a pedophile when I looked at him in a newspaper
Nik Reece maybe that’s why he was never famous in the United States. At least Bill Cosby did something as a comedian and actor on The Cosby Show. From what I can gather, all Jimmy Saville ever did was go on TV and say “I’m Jimmy Saville and here’s something I’m introducing.”
My cousin was a world champion speed skater in the 80’s, a few years prior she was asked to go on a show where they wanted her to skate. My father took her and was watching from the sideline. He said he heard numerous staff in the studio laughing and joking that she’s lucky Jimmy wasn’t there. It’s clear it wasn’t even a hush hush thing between a few staff. Everyone was complicit.
Throughout his early days Johnny was always portrayed as a junkie who out of control and publicly humiliated in all mainstream TV radio and tabloids.. This guy is a national treasure even though he turned down the queen's honour, he is a Sir
