FTFA: Decked out in an English gentleman-style tweed outfit, Lydon - whose used the stage name Johnny Rotten - features in adverts for Country Life butter which will hit screens in October.

As part of his first television advertising campaign, Lydon gallivants around various British locations as he tries to decide why he thinks Country Life butter is his favourite brand.

This is such a weird and sad way to sell out - and I'm not even a fan of punk!

This is rather strange. Punks gotta eat I suppose.

I guess it's butter than nothing

You can't keep up that idiotic "anarchy" ideal forever.

God save the butter

Anyone notice the brand he is advertising, Country Life? I'm betting he emphasises the first syllable ever so slightly.

/Bill Grundy would not be amused

Is this the story of Johnny Rotten ?

The best part of the article was the last paragraph.

Anarchy in the Parkay?

I don't wanna holiday without toast
I wanna get some new breakfast
I wanna see something buttery
'Cause now I got a reasonable economy

Now I got a reason, now I got a reason
Now I got a reason and I'm still eating
Now I got a reason
Now I got reason to be eating
Country Life Butter

Anyone remember when he was on Judge Judy? Farking hilarious.

Never mind the butter.

He must've gotten jealous after seeing those checks Jonesy was getting from Toyota of Huntington Beach.

It was hilarious last year when he went off on Sting and called him "Stink."

http://www.londonnet.co.uk/entertainment/2007/sep/john-lydon-calls-sting-stink-a nd-police-dead.html

"That really is a reformation isn't it? But honestly that's like soggy old dead carcasses. You know listening to Stink trying to squeak through Roxanne one more time, that's not fun."

"You ever get the feeling you've been cheated?"

I can't believe it's not heroin.

God save the cream.

Bitter old sell out.

Ha! Loser!

Legacy fail.

It's funnier given his time fronting PIL.

way funnier.

man that is just sad. I idolized those guys, life fast die young, or from clogged arteries from eating too much butter. Almost as sad as iggy pop's "lust for life" as the song for carnival cruises or whatever. God everytime I see that commercial I just imagine iggy pissing on a crowd of drunk kids barely wearing clothes. Betcha the suits never figured that that song would conjure that image for many a gen-Xer, one of their target demographics.

thatguyfred: You can't keep up that idiotic "anarchy" ideal forever.

Beat me to the punch. It's pretty hard to rail against order's system when your hungry and two months late on rent.

This reminds me of the adage: "Love don't put food on the table" Yea well neither does an old man clinging to youth's angst.

Attention whore.

Always was, always will be.

You Pistols fans were just schmucks.

Actually, this is pretty damned funny and typical of Brit humor. Kudos to the ad designer who thought this up and kudos to Rotten for going along with it. Johnny Rotten in a tweed jacket hawking butter -- priceless. I love it.

Almost as good as Daleks demanding a cuddle in a Kit-Kat ad. Almost. (pops to YouTube).

Ya gotta love the Brits. Best sense of irony on the planet.

dbaggins: It's funnier given his time fronting PIL.

way funnier.

Commercial Zone indeed.

This is what you want, this is what you get....BUTTER!

Butter is anarchy. fark margarine, fark heart healthy spread, let's eat gobs of butter! A complete meal along with Red Stripe and a cigarette.

Anarchy! Anarchy! Anarchy! And Seagrams!!!
/Some '80s comedian...

It's not nice to fool Mother Nature.

"She was a girl from birmingham
She just had an abortion
She was a case of insanity
Her name was pauline she lived in a tree
She was a no one who killed her baby
She sent her letters from the country
She was an animal she was a bloody disgrase

Body Im not an animal
Body Im not an animal

Dragged on a table in factory
Illegitimate place to be
In a packet in a lavatory
Die little baby screaming f*cking bloody mess
Its not an animal its an abortion

Body Im not animal
Mummy Im not an abortion

Throbbing squirm, gurgling bloody mess
Im not an discharge, Im not a loss in
Protein, Im not a throbbing squirm

F*ck this and f*ck that f*ck it all and
F*ck the f*cking brat
She dont wanna baby that looks like that
I dont wanna baby that looks like that
Body Im not an animal
Body Im not an abortion

Body Im not an animal
An animal
Im not an animal...
Im not an abortion...

Mummy! ugh! "

A pro-life anthem ahead of its time?

you either burn out or sell out. He has lived long enough to have the latter happen.

This makes alot more sense now however.

Sounds like he read the last chapter in A Clockwork Orange and just said "Fark it."

Ex-Sex Pistol Lydon turns to butter

Am I the only one who thought this meant that he melted and turned into butter?

"That's why I drink 'Orange Drink'. " -- Hicks

hienekenftw: Ex-Sex Pistol Lydon turns to butter

Am I the only one who thought this meant that he melted and turned into butter?

I was thinking botched cosmetic surgery. That might have been preferable.

One can't live on "baby doll jello" forever.

Nothing new to see here.

To be counterculture and stay that way, you really have to die before you hit 50, or your legacy is shiat.

Approves

I'm fuzzy how someone who never had an album out on a indie can be considered to be a sell-out for doing a commercial.

I read that as butler

Even anarchists need money.

This is not a love song ... for butter.

Feltonl: Anarchy in the Parkay?

OK that's pretty good there.

approves... of mustard.

My surrealism meter just broke.

Anybody whining here just wishes they had something to sell out. I'd do it in a second.

This just in: guy does thing he wouldn't otherwise do for money. Film at 11.

/ remember it's Monday for many of you farkers tomorrow also.

NYZooMan: Attention whore.

Ya think?

NYZooMan: You Pistols fans were just schmucks.

Not those of us that understood.

Man On Pink Corner: Sounds like he read the last chapter in A Clockwork Orange and just said "Fark it."

Wow, dude. I think you just hit the nail on the head. Good call.