We all know that Zeke’s quests are puns on the names of (mainly) British pop/rock groups. Did you know that Marleybone also features some musical pop culture references?
Pop Culture References of Wizard101
Joseph Lydon – John Joseph Lydon
AKA punk rocker Johnny Rotten of the Sex Pistols.
http://www.wizard101central.com/wiki/NPC:Joseph_Lydon#ixzz7YH3GFDab
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lydon
https://youtu.be/qbmWs6Jf5dc
Joseph Lydon is the “Athame Shopkeeper” in Marleybone. He is located in Regent’s Square, inside Lady Labrador’s Athames shop, on the south side of Market Square.
John Joseph Lydon (born 31 January 1956), better known by his stage name Johnny Rotten, is an English singer and songwriter. He is best known as the lead singer of the late-1970s British punk band the Sex Pistols, which lasted from 1975 until 1978, and again for various revivals during the 1990s and 2000s. He is also the lead singer of post-punk band Public Image Ltd (PiL), which he founded and fronted from 1978 until 1993, and again since 2009.
“Anarchy in the U.K.” is a song by English punk rock band the Sex Pistols. It was released as the band’s debut single on 26 November 1976 and was later featured on their album Never Mind the Bollocks, Here’s the Sex Pistols. “Anarchy in the U.K.” is number 56 on Rolling Stone magazine’s list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time and is included in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame’s 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll.
This is the forty-seventh article chronicling the #W101PopCulture references starting in Wizard City and the fourth Marleybone article. The current list of all the (known) Marleybone references are located here.
Although I am well versed in Pop Culture references but I do not claim to have caught them all. Let me know your favorites in the comments and if I’ve missed one you caught, let me know so I can add it to the list.
Text for this article is excerpted from the linked wiki pages
Joseph Lydon image is from Wizard101, and is copyright of KingsIsle Entertainment.
Johnny Rotten/John Joseph Lydon image is borrowed from this Loudwire.com article.
Image usage qualifies as fair use under US copyright law.
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