RIP Nora Forster.

ET2SN · 04-07-23, 05:56 AM

Who?

Hang on, this one is deep and also sad. Also, heavily paraphrased from an article by Lyndsey Parker·Editor in Chief, Yahoo Music.

Nora Forster was the wife of Sex Pistols and Public Image Ltd's John Lydon. Lydon met Forster, a German publishing heiress 14 years his senior, when he was in his early twenties; Forster was the mother of Ari Up, the teenage frontwoman of another pioneering British punk band, the Slits. The couple married in 1979, and in 2000 became the legal guardians of Up's twin sons. They also became the guardians of Ari's third child in 2010, after the Slits singer died of breast cancer.

On Thursday, Lydon announced in a heartbreaking Facebook post that his wife of 44 years, Nora Forster, had died at age 80, following a battle with Alzheimer’s disease. Lydon first publicly announced Forster's illness in 2018, and in 2020 he told Britain’s The Mirror that he had become “her full-time carer... I won’t let anyone mess up with her head. For me, the real person is still there. That person I love is still there every minute of every day, and that is my life.”

In 2015, during a sit-down interview with Yahoo Entertainment, Lydon spoke about the many doubters who'd once assumed that his relationship with Forster would never last. “Well, good luck to people that are flippant about their relationships and their responsibility towards their fellow human beings, but people like me and Nora, we spend the time and take the effort to understand each other,” he said. “And then it becomes a life’s work in progress. And for my way of living, that’s how it want it to be. I don’t take commitments lightly. I don’t treat fellow human beings as tools of my trade. So, there you go — I’m a loyalist at heart.”

Eichhörnchen · 04-07-23, 06:43 AM

Very touching. And this from a guy who seems to have spent so much time making other people hate him - perhaps the world had him all wrong

Moonlight · 04-08-23, 01:16 PM

Aye, you're spot on Mr Squirrel, people couldn't look beyond his public persona with the sex pistols and thought that was what he was like in real life. They probably didn't know that he was one of the first people to reveal that Jimmy Saville was a kiddie fiddler as well, that was way back in 1978. John was banned off the TV and Radio for that one, the BBC Executives brushed all that under the carpet as usual and that Radio interview with John was never aired.

His wife "Nora" put up a good fight, but in the end that disease is not forgiving and it could strike anyone down, any time.
Goodbye Nora and RIP.

04-07-23, 05:56 AM	#1
ET2SN Ocean Warrior Join Date: Oct 2017 Posts: 2,652 Downloads: 60 Uploads: 0	RIP Nora Forster. Who? Hang on, this one is deep and also sad. Also, heavily paraphrased from an article by Lyndsey Parker·Editor in Chief, Yahoo Music. Nora Forster was the wife of Sex Pistols and Public Image Ltd's John Lydon. Lydon met Forster, a German publishing heiress 14 years his senior, when he was in his early twenties; Forster was the mother of Ari Up, the teenage frontwoman of another pioneering British punk band, the Slits. The couple married in 1979, and in 2000 became the legal guardians of Up's twin sons. They also became the guardians of Ari's third child in 2010, after the Slits singer died of breast cancer. On Thursday, Lydon announced in a heartbreaking Facebook post that his wife of 44 years, Nora Forster, had died at age 80, following a battle with Alzheimer’s disease. Lydon first publicly announced Forster's illness in 2018, and in 2020 he told Britain’s The Mirror that he had become “her full-time carer... I won’t let anyone mess up with her head. For me, the real person is still there. That person I love is still there every minute of every day, and that is my life.” In 2015, during a sit-down interview with Yahoo Entertainment, Lydon spoke about the many doubters who'd once assumed that his relationship with Forster would never last. “Well, good luck to people that are flippant about their relationships and their responsibility towards their fellow human beings, but people like me and Nora, we spend the time and take the effort to understand each other,” he said. “And then it becomes a life’s work in progress. And for my way of living, that’s how it want it to be. I don’t take commitments lightly. I don’t treat fellow human beings as tools of my trade. So, there you go — I’m a loyalist at heart.”

04-07-23, 06:43 AM	#2
Eichhörnchen Starte das Auto Join Date: Aug 2014 Location: The Fens Posts: 17,388 Downloads: 5 Uploads: 0	Very touching. And this from a guy who seems to have spent so much time making other people hate him - perhaps the world had him all wrong __________________

04-08-23, 01:16 PM	#3
Moonlight Ocean Warrior Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: Fookhall Copse Posts: 2,519 Downloads: 184 Uploads: 0	Aye, you're spot on Mr Squirrel, people couldn't look beyond his public persona with the sex pistols and thought that was what he was like in real life. They probably didn't know that he was one of the first people to reveal that Jimmy Saville was a kiddie fiddler as well, that was way back in 1978. John was banned off the TV and Radio for that one, the BBC Executives brushed all that under the carpet as usual and that Radio interview with John was never aired. His wife "Nora" put up a good fight, but in the end that disease is not forgiving and it could strike anyone down, any time. Goodbye Nora and RIP. __________________