Christiane F./Wir Kinder Vom Bahnof Zoo, 1981
well i guess i'm back with the new content!!
tbh i don't know if somebody is still interested in it, but still...
truly hope tumblr doesn’t ever really die out because gif making is absolutely and utterly useless except for getting 50 notes on here and yet i don’t wanna stop
John Lydon & Keith Levene on Tom Snyder Show in 1980
Recently Nora Forster, who you may know as the wife of Sex Pistols and Public Image Ltd frontman Johnny Lydon, passed away from Alzheimer’s
Nora was born in Munich to a wealthy publishing family (her father was the editorial manager of Der Spiegel, a popular German magazine). In the 1960s, she worked as a music promoter and rubbed elbows with legends such as Jimi Hendrix. Along the way she married a man named Frank Forster and had a child named Ariane aka Ari Up, frontwoman of The Slits!
Eventually Nora and Ari moved to London in the 1970s and the two quickly became enmeshed in the burgeoning punk scene. Nora was described as a ‘den mother’ and ‘punk warrior mummy’ to the young musicians in the scene and financially supported bands such as The Clash, the Sex Pistols, and The Slits who were often in desperate need of cash. Her home also became a gathering place for the bands and their followers
In 1975, Nora met Johnny Lydon (more commonly known at the time by his stage name Johnny Rotten) and they eventually became romantically involved even though Johnny was 14 years younger than her (he was only 18 when they first met!)
“I fell in love with John because he surprised me,” she said. “He had a sweet attitude. He was more innocent and not like the rest of the group.”
The couple married in 1979, to the horror of Ms. Forster’s father. And, to the likely amazement of those who considered Mr. Lydon a human mushroom cloud, the marriage endured.
Even so, it might never have happened if Ms. Forster had listened to her friends’ advice in those early days. “One day he came up and asked why I had never invited him to my house,” she later said of Mr. Lydon. “I replied, ‘People told me you would destroy everything.’”
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In 2000, Nora and Johnny became the guardians of Ari’s twin sons Pedro and Pablo after Ari felt as though she was unable to properly care for them. After Ari’s death from cancer in 2010, they took in her third child Wilton as well
Nora was a positive force in the early British punk scene and in the lives of the people who loved her. She will definitely be missed
True.
#danny boyle decided to kill me cause this scene happens RIGHT AFTER THE SCENE WHERE JOHNNY IS KICKED OUT OF THE BAND#it was a double heart attack#i mean the way Johnny gently touched Sid's hand#my heart is melting#sex pistols#pistol fx#anson boon#louis partridge#johnny rotten#sid vicious#pistol disney#pistol hulu#pistol tv show
