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Libel is making untrue allegations, Johnny was not saying libelous things. And no it doesn't prove a cover up, but it demonstrates that in 1978 it was showbiz gossip. People knew what he was up to, but very few spoke about it. Johnny is one of the few who did speak out, but they didn't broadcast the comments. The BBC have been heavily implicated in this murky affair, systematic failures time and again which allowed him to continue abusing. You don't keep making the same mistakes for decades. For him to be so high profile, with people knowing, and to get away with it for so long, there were people pulling strings for him. He was untouchable.
You may be right about his auto-biography, (I'm not about to read it)
Nor am I, I'll go as far as reading his Wikipedia page and leave it at that. So I don't know the specific comments. I don't think we're talking about outright confessions though, but from what I can tell from a quick google search, he often talks about angry parents. Point is, there's stuff that an investigating officer can work with.
As for there being plenty of accusations, I only heard of the three that were investigated by Surrey police in 2009. Are these other ones documented, or just a bunch that came out later? It's important to keep the timeline of these things straight, because you can't investigate accusations that haven't been made yet. If someone came out after he died and said "yeah, he diddled me too," that's not evidence of a cover up. It's evidence of an accusation being made well after the event took place.
That John Lydon interview is from 1978. There was resistance to him getting a knighthood in Thatcher's time due to concerns about his private life. He still ended up with a knighthood, which still hasn't been revoked.
This was consistently brushed under the carpet. The police get the odd bit of evidence, they send it up the chain of command, the Crown Prosecution Service decides there's not enough evidence to prosecute. The CPS are the decision makers. Who's pulling their strings?
There are lots of girls and boys who could have been interviewed. Lots of victims, parents, colleagues, friends, acquaintances, lots of people. The evidence existed, but there was never any serious attempt to find it.
They waited for him to die before allowing him to be exposed. He was protected, it's painfully obvious.
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