Former Sex Pistols frontman John Lydon pictured on March 4, 2019.
Dublin – Punk icon and former Sex Pistols frontman John Lydon will not represent Ireland at this year's Eurovision Song Contest. His post-punk band Public Image Ltd. with the song Hawaii, she did not score well with the audience and the jury, the AP agency wrote today.
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Ireland will send Wild Youth to the music competition with the song We Are One. Hawaii by Public Image Ltd. she finished in fourth place among the six finalists. Sixty-seven-year-old Lydon, better known by the nickname Johnny Rotten, was born in London to Irish parents. He says the song Hawaii is a tribute to his wife Nora, who suffers from Alzheimer's disease.
Last year's song contest was won by the Ukrainian group Kalush Orchestra with the song Stefania. Ukraine was to be the organizer of the next edition. However, it has been defending itself against Russian aggression for almost a year, and the organization of the 67th edition of the competition was taken over by Liverpool in Northern England due to the safety of the participants. The finals of the competition will take place on May 13.
The first year of Eurovision was held in May 1956, and the most famous winner in the history of the contest is considered to be the Swedish group ABBA, who broke through in 1974 with the hit Waterloo. Other famous faces who succeeded in the competition include the Canadian Céline Dion, who represented Switzerland in 1988. The Czech Republic participated for the first time in 2007. Already in 1968, Karel Gott performed in the competition, which was then called the Eurovision Grand Prize, but as a representative of Austria.
