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I love John Lydon! Good on him for telling the truthFrom The Telegraph:
The Crown wanted scenes of bottles being thrown at the Queen, John Lydon tells Sex Pistols court case
Former frontman said he refused to allow God Save the Queen to be used in the Netflix drama after learning how it was to be used
ByAnita Singh, ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT EDITOR21 July 2021 • 6:08pm
The producers of The Crown tried to invent scenes of a rioting crowd pelting the Queen with bottles during her Silver Jubilee procession, John Lydon has claimed.
The former Sex Pistols frontman said he refused to allow God Save the Queen to be used in the Netflix drama after learning how it was to be used.
"It was a very perverse interpretation of the history of the Jubilee," Lydon told the High Court, where he gave evidence as part of a dispute with his former bandmates.
It is the latest accusation of falsehood to hit the show, which has been accused of a series of inventions that portray the Royal family in an unflattering light.
On June 7 1977, the day of the Jubilee procession, the Sex Pistols staged a publicity stunt to perform God Save the Queen on a boat down the Thames.
Lydon said he was open to the idea of the song being used on The Crown’s soundtrack.
But in his witness statement to court, he said: “Then it turned into the producers wanting to use actors for a re-enactment of [the] famous boat trip.
The producers of The Crown wanted to distort the history of the day and depict me as a political protester and to show scenes of protest in front of the Queen in the middle of her Jubilee celebrations. Events that simply did not happen.
“The story that they presented was with the Queen in despair in her carriage, and all those ugly scenes on the streets of crowds fighting and chucking bottles, whilst others were celebrating the Queen.
“Nobody was rioting, and here is my real, serious problem with it. This never happened. This is a lie about history.
“There were no bricks and bottles thrown at the Queen… it’s a lie. The only people making any demonstration at all about the Royal family that day were the Sex Pistols on a boat trip down the Thames - lovely songs of protest in front of the Houses of Parliament, and that’s it."
“They can mish-mash history all they want, but they can’t do it using my name,” he said
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