Public Image Ltd: Corporation Executive Report to Shareholders
Chris Bohn, NME, 5 July 1980
PUBLIC IMAGE LIMITED and America hardly seemed made for each other. Yet having successfully defied Britain's star caste systems and ugly myth makers, earlier this year, PiL suddenly decided, to take on the world's grossest rock and roll machinery at their own game. Who came out on top depends on who's doing the scoring.
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