{"id":133854,"date":"2016-05-30T13:47:58","date_gmt":"2016-05-30T13:47:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=133854"},"modified":"2016-06-02T05:38:03","modified_gmt":"2016-06-02T05:38:03","slug":"sex-pistols-rocker-john-lydon-claims-bbc-banned-him-after-he-tried-to-expose-paedophile-jimmy-savile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=133854","title":{"rendered":"Sex Pistols rocker John Lydon claims BBC banned him after he tried to expose paedophile Jimmy Savile"},"content":{"rendered":"

Keyan Milanian — The Mirror May 28, 2016<\/h1>\n
\"John-Lydon\"<\/a>

John Lydon. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n

Rocker John Lydon claims the BBC banned him – after he tried to expose Jimmy Savile in the 1970s.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Sex Pistols star said he spoke to girls who worked at Top of the Pops who he says told him Savile was ‘touchy, feely and creepy’.<\/span><\/p>\n

He gave an interview to BBC Radio 1 in 1978 in which he said he’d heard rumours about Savile’s behaviour but that he wouldn’t be ‘allowed’ to talk about it.<\/span><\/p>\n

But the interview wasn’t broadcast at the time and Lydon, 60, said he was blacklisted by the BBC.<\/span><\/p>\n

During the recording, he said: “I’d like to kill Jimmy Savile; I think he’s a hypocrite.<\/span><\/p>\n

“I bet he’s into all kinds of seediness that we all know about, but are not allowed to talk about.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI know some rumours – I bet none of this will be allowed out.”<\/span><\/p>\n

And speaking to Weekend Magazine, the God Save The Queen singer said: “If you said anything you’d be off playlists, but that didn’t bother me as I was doing a good job of that independently.<\/span><\/p>\n

“But first-hand experiences were reiterated to me by young girls who went to Top Of The Pops and said he was touchy, feely, creepy, urgh… Doctor Death.<\/span><\/p>\n

“I told them to report it but it would have been seen as grassing then.”<\/span><\/p>\n

And he added: “I knew all about it and said so and got myself banned from the BBC. Family values, eh?<\/span><\/p>\n

“Turns out I was the only one who had any.”<\/span><\/p>\n

However, a BBC spokesman said: \u201cWe are not aware of any ban \u2013 official or unofficial.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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Although the BBC denied that it banned Lydon, his claim adds to weight to suspicions that the corporation had shielded Savile<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jimmy-savile-scandal"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=133854"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133854\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":133859,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133854\/revisions\/133859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=133854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=133854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=133854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}