Former Sex Pistols Johnny Rotten, in the running to represent Ireland at Eurovision, was beaten on Friday at the local telecrochet by the group Wild Youth, and his title We are One.
The former leader of the British punk band the Sex Pistols, John Lydon, will not wear the colors of Ireland at Eurovision 2023, beaten on Friday by the Irish group Wild Youth in a televised national competition.
The Dublin Quartet, who performed the song We Are Onewas selected ahead of five other groups including that of John Lydon, Public Image Ltd, by a panel of Irish and international experts and the public’s vote during a national broadcaster RTE’s television broadcast.
“Give everything for Ireland”
This victory thus propels the group Wild Youth, which has already had a series of successes in Ireland, on the stage of the Eurovision Song Contest 2023 to be held in May in Liverpool, in the north of England.
“We just hope we can do the best job we can for Ireland and make it amazing, we want to give it our all for it and we hope everyone supports the song,” Wild Youth frontman Conor O’Donohoe said.
The group Public Image Ltd, formed after the Sex Pistols split in 1978, performed a song written by John Lydon on Friday, in which he pays a moving tribute to his wife, Nora, who suffers from Alzheimer’s disease.
“A feat”
“I have to endure my wife’s slow demise and be able to write a song about it and have it end up being, I think, quite beautiful, that’s quite an achievement,” the ’66 punk rocker said. years on Irish television.
Last year, Ukraine won the Eurovision Song Contest ahead of the United Kingdom.
If usually the winning country hosts the meeting the following year, the organizers estimated that Ukraine would not be able to do so due to the Russian invasion.
