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John Lydon Accused of Racist Attack

Posted Mon 21 Jul 2008 1:05PM BST by Mitch Carter in The Guestlist

Bloc Party frontman Kele Okereke suffered facial bruising and a split lip following an alleged racist attack by Sex Pistols singer John Lydon at Barcelona's Summercase festival on Saturday.

Okereke, claims the attack took place after he attempted to engage Lydon in conversation backstage however Lydon became "intimidating and aggressive while his entourage responded with a racist tirade, including the statement, 'your problem is your black attitude'." Three members of Lydon's staff then allegedly attacked Okereke.

Several other musicians witnessed the fight including Kaiser Chiefs frontman Ricky Wilson who was said to have intervened in the brawl. Spanish and UK police are now thought to be investigating the incident.

Lydon made the headlines last month for his verbal attack on Welsh pop startlet Duffy at London's prestigious Mojo Awards. He is also being sued by a female assistant who he allegedly punched in the face during a frenzied argument over accommodation at a five-star Los Angeles hotel.

299 Comments

161. COLIN -
leave the man aloan he is ok and sound. all this crap about him showes how jealous twatts out there are of him.thay changed musis forever,when he speaks he gives you the true aspect.good on you john rock forever.

162. Yahoo! Music User -
white pasty face...sounds all a bit racist to me

163. Yahoo! Music User -
I love the Sex Pistols....but Wayne County and the Electric Chairs were better !! All these stupid comments about John Lydon are from people who don't really know about the Punk scene.Right then I'm off to have some plastic surgery ....its so plastic.--

164. Yahoo! Music User -
Being a white ,hetrosexual male who is opposed to political correctness and stands up for free speech will always be looked down on by the'Establishment'. Good on you. See you at Live at the Loch.

165. john -
john lydon a loud mouth punk and very rude who needs a personally transplant easy cant stand him what a nob and his company record company should sack him just a reject from pop idol lol and be anyone says he didnt start from pop idol i ken he didnt ok

166. LESLEY -
racism is not acceptable - ever

167. DAVID -
Its a fascist regime, made you a moron.....and potentially...well its an "h" bomb really. Still summers here now so why not take a nice trip to Belsen I heard its a gas too. Every one of you is right, and every one is wrong, but at least you are allowed to express yourself. Before Punk, music was bland, boring. So now Jonny rottens older, is he supposed to shut up and listen to boring mindless babble or tell someone to shut up. Entourage of any description is always full of [profane]s, the real problem jonny has got, is he has kissed the whotsit of satan and joined the glitterazi. thats the real story, sold out and now pretending to be angry. boo hoo. the attitude thang is right on though, we all experience boo attitude from time to time. goes with the genes, you get me?

168. DARREN T -
buy that man a beer.......nice 1........

169. MILAND -
If he had not of been coloured would it still have been classed as racist or just an attack?

170. Yahoo! Music User -
John Lydon still living off his fifteen minutes of fame,a sad sad man.Neither a visionary or talented, it is remarkable how this reality show wannabe has stayed in the public eye for so long.A founder of the most worthless music movement of all time nothing more nothing less,in language his fans might understand...do the decent thing Johnny Rotten and [profane] right off

171. D G -
send him for anger management immediately!!!!!

172. DAVID -
If people didn't want reality shows, then they wouldnt get them. Sad society, sad t.v worlds. Have we learned nothing since 1976. communication, whoopee, lets ask our friends in many electronic ways whether they saw Big Davinas Head, if not then just catch up on the interweb............aaarrrrgggghghghhhhh

173. L -
I'm so bored of all these old punks, 'if you knew anything about punk blah blah blah....I'm so bored, get over it mate it was 30 years ago! probably all accountants now living in Ongar, DESTROY!!!!!...ahem... the suburbs....Bleating on about how Lydon can't possiblely be racist cos he listens to reggae!! heard it all now, like the original skinheads listening to ska couldn't possibly have a racist thought in their lickle ickle shineheads '

174. lloyd -
what a nob head, Kele Okereke is a good guy

175. Yahoo! Music User -
whether he was racist or not, as a has been Lydon needs to grab the headlines where he can..pitiful

176. ADAM -
i would of put his lights out,he is too old nowaday's to be mixing it.An old slob of a man.

177. Yahoo! Music User -
As for saying before punk that music was bland,maybe so if you only listen to middle of the road rock music,there are a zillion talented black musicians who's careers have eclipsed the 18 month lifespan of the sex pistols.From pre pistols to way way after.In fact black music was at it's most dynamic and inventive between 1969 and the early eighties.While the punks of england were gobbing on each other,in the bronx was born hip hop,the biggest selling genre of music bar none at this moment.A movement that has genuinely touched the four corners of the globe,not one that has just connected with lowest common denominator tabloid press for filth and fury headlines.If it wasn't for the junkie glamour of sid vicious the pistols would have become Oasis and churned out album after album of yet more rock mediocrity that they originally kicked against.Pity it took a murder and a suicide to keep the pistols legacy burning so that lydon is still booked to play events where he can reveal himself to be an ego driven SI.

178. Yahoo! Music User -
yes lets all sla6 off lydon and drive his punk music into the ground and get on with listening to proper music from today like gangster rap so the minorities (if there is such a thing now) can shoot each other to bits and glorify the death music called rap and the women opressing music rnb. hum makes you wonder who is really the talented ones out there the new shoot em up rappers or the oldest swingers in town who opposed violence and street murder.

179. r -
@176 ha ha you would put lydons lights out ha ha HE WOULD BITE YOU HEAD OFF AND STICK AN APPLE IN YOUR MOUTH HA HA looks what for dinner he'd say!!!!

180. Yahoo! Music User -
Richard B, WHO'S THE RACIST NOW?
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