![]() ![]() ![]() Launched in 1956, the first competition took place in Lugano, Switzerland, and only seven countries participated. It is difficult to conceive of an event less punk than Eurovision. Yes, Johnny Rotten, the Sex Pistol who set out to bring anarchy to the UK 46 years ago, has just volunteered to enter the soporific song in the European competition’s preliminary round. Nevertheless, if rivers of ink have been spilled over this feather-light contemporary ballad, it is because 66-year-old John Lydon has decided to nominate it as an entry to represent Ireland in this spring’s Eurovision Song Contest. ![]() Some give him credit for still being “alive and kicking” after his exhausting 66-year-long personal crusade against the system they say that, beyond its musical virtues (or lack thereof), Hawaii represents a commendable act of resistance. Hawaii, the first song that John Lydon – Johnny Rotten to his friends – has released in eight years is “the definitive nail in the coffin of British punk.” The song –released under the name of Rotten’s band Public Image LTD, of which he has been the only permanent member since 1978– has been called a “horrendous” ballad, “real shit,” “ordinariness” and an “outburst.” Only his fans have attempted to defend Lydon with sanctimonious arguments. On social media, which is almost always merciless, they’ve already reached a verdict. ![]()
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