Ex-Sex Pistol makes Eurovision bid,’ is not a headline many would have seen coming as 2023 opened for business a few weeks back. But then, we live in strange, unpredictable times. Times in which John Lydon — godfather of punk, the artist formerly known as Johnny Rotten — has indeed announced his intention to represent Ireland (the country of his parents’ birth) at the continent’s kitschiest song contest, with a tender ballad called ‘Hawaii’. So, late on a Wednesday evening in mid January, ES Magazine is phoning the singer at his Malibu home to find out what exactly he’s thinking.
Unfortunately, though, we seem to have been given the wrong number.
