Image Publique S.A.: Paris Au Printemps (Virgin)
Vivien Goldman, NME, 15 November 1980
Lydon says he hates live albums. Paris Au Printemps – PAP – the best of two nights recorded in Paris this spring, is a consumer service for people that would have shelled out vast sums for low-fi bootlegs of the (currently) extinct species, PiL live.
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