The former leader of the British punk band the Sex Pistols, John Lydon, will not wear the colors of Ireland in Eurovision 2023, defeated on Friday by the Irish group Wild Youth in a televised national competition.
The Dublin Quartet, who performed the song We are oneit was selected ahead of five other groups, including John Lydon’s, Public Image Ltd, by a panel of Irish and international experts and a public vote during a television broadcast by national broadcaster RTE.
“Give everything for Ireland”
This victory thus propels the Wild Youth group, which has already achieved a series of successes in Ireland, to 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 and we hope everyone will support the song,” Wild Youth frontman Conor O’Donohoe said.
Public Image Ltd, formed after the Sex Pistols split in 1978, performed a song written by John Lydon on Friday, paying emotional tribute to his wife, Nora, who suffers from Alzheimer’s disease.
“An achievement”
“I have to endure the slow demise of my wife and to be able to write a song about it and end up being, I think, quite beautiful, that’s quite an achievement,” the ’66-year-old punk rocker said on Irish television. .
Last year Ukraine won the Eurovision Song Contest ahead of the UK.
If normally 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.
Source: BFM TV
