Johnny Rotten's VERY scandalous nights in the Commons: Sex Pistols star reveals how he attended drinking sessions with MPs - and watched them head off with escort girls at the end of the night
- John Lydon says he attended late night drinking sessions in the Commons
- Was accompanied on his trips to the Palace of Westminster by Linda Ashby
- Claims that MPs would mingle and go off with escorts at the end of the night
- Recalls how he was introduced to then Liberal Party leader Jeremy Thorpe
As the foul-mouthed singer of The Sex Pistols, he was the scourge of the Establishment.
But shortly before he became punk’s most notorious star, Johnny Rotten attended late-night drinking sessions at the House of
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Thorpe was forced to resign on May 9 that year when he found himself at the centre of an explosive sex scandal.
In his book, to be published on Thursday, Lydon writes: ‘There was a late-night drinking thing in Parliament and she [Linda] had access to it, so she took me and a couple of other people. A few pennies a pint – outrageous, brilliant, what a great place to drink!’Commons – and witnessed MPs mingling with ‘working girls’.
Accompanying the singer to parties at the Palace of Westminster was his friend Linda Ashby.
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John Lydon, in his Sex Pistols days when he was known as Johnny Rotten. He has revealed in a new book that he attended late night drinking sessions at the House of Commons
The star – now 58 and known by his real name John Lydon – says in his new autobiography that MPs and escorts would go off with each other at the end of the evening.
Most sensationally, he recalls how Ashby introduced him to Jeremy Thorpe, the then leader of the Liberal Party. According to Lydon, it was just two months before he and Thorpe became Britain’s most notorious figures, placing the meeting in 1976.
The singer recalls how he was introduced to Jeremy Thorpe, pictured, the then leader of the Liberal Party
He adds: ‘There we were, looking out at the Thames under a brolly, the Houses of Parliament overshadowing us, surrounded by all of these MPs who all day seem to squabble and hate each other, but there they were, discussing who is going with what escort.’
Lydon had yet to become a household name as Rotten and he thinks many of the assembled MPs would have mistaken him for a male escort. He says: ‘I suppose they thought I was a male prostitute, with a slightly different way of dressing.
‘I certainly wasn’t what Jeremy Thorpe might’ve been looking for.’
There is no suggestion in the book that Thorpe himself enjoyed the company of escorts at the Commons.
Accompanying the singer to parties at the Palace of Westminster was his friend Linda Ashby, pictured
The MP was alleged to have had an affair with his friend Norman Scott in the early 1960s at a time when homosexuality was illegal. He was subsequently accused of being part of a conspiracy to have Scott murdered. Thorpe and three other defendants were acquitted at the Old Bailey in 1979.
Lydon writes touchingly about his friendship with Ashby. They shared a flat close to Buckingham Palace and he says: ‘I loved her to pieces. We had no relationship of any kind, other than equal nutters, I suppose. She was a working girl, basically.’
Neither Lydon nor Ashby were available for comment.
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