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The Private Life Of Public Image
Interview by Danny Baker, NME, June 1979
WHAT TIME IS it? It feels like five in the morning but it must be a lot later. Ugh, Jesus, I must be inside my own ...

Public Image Limited: The Flowers Of Romance (Virgin)
Review by Jon Savage, The Face, April 1981
A typically caustic, sardonic title: the thorn in the rose. If much of the current chart has much of the grace and flow of 1966 – ...

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AUDIO: PiL in Estonia, part 1 (1988)
Interview by Mat Snow, Rock's Backpages Audio, August 1988
Live Aid? Bollocks! Mat Snow battles the airport tannoy to hear pearls of wisdom from John Lydon and band. ...

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Public Image Ltd: Public Image (Virgin)
Review by Peter Silverton, Sounds, December 1978
AND THE BOY looked at Johnny. And he shouted: "Look, ma, the Emperor's got no ...

Public Image Ltd: Public Image
Review by Simon Frith, Melody Maker, December 1978
"I don't agree with bands who make records to please audiences." (Johnny ...

Public Image Ltd
Interview by Chris Salewicz, NME, December 1978
JOHN LYDON lives in the upper maisonette of the end terrace of a row of sturdily built Victorian houses on the Fulham/Chelsea border. He picked it ...

Public Image Ltd.: Public Image (Warner Bros.)
Review by Robot A. Hull, Creem, April 1979
NEVER MIND the Sex' Pistols, here's the rotting corpse of Johnny Rotten, stinking to high heaven like some maggot brain from the Bryan Ferry School of ...

Public Image Ltd.: The Metal Box
Interview by Kris Needs, ZigZag, December 1979
FRIDAY EVENING in Chelsea and I'm looking for a house, panning the street on the odd numbers side. Nearly there and a door opens. Down the ...

Lydon In New York: The Image Goes Public
Interview by Andy Schwartz, New York Rocker, May 1980
IT IS TWO O'CLOCK in the afternoon, and John Lydon has just popped his third or fourth Heineken of the day. ...

Public Image Ltd.: PiL in Hollywood
Report and Interview by Sylvie Simmons, Sounds, May 1980
HUDDLED ROUND the side with a crowd of disco dancers waiting for their fifteen minutes of fame, watching a fake Doobie Brothers run through their number ...

Public Image Ltd: Corporation Executive Report to Shareholders
Report and Interview by Chris Bohn, NME, 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, ...

Image Publique S.A.: Paris Au Printemps (Virgin)
Review by Vivien Goldman, NME, 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 ...

The Fugitive: John Lydon at Large
Interview by Chris Salewicz, The Face, December 1980
IT SEEMS POETICALLY APPROPRIATE that John Lydon has chosen Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange as the film to insert into the video-cassette deck at Virgin's Townhouse Studios ...

Company Lore and Public Disorder: The PiL Memorandum
Interview by Gavin Martin, NME, March 1981
WHILE ENGLAND GOES down the plughole, the firm of Lydon, Levene and Lee set up to prove that enterprise is not dead. They press boldly ahead ...

PiL: This Is What You Want, This Is What You Get (Virgin)
Review by Lynden Barber, Melody Maker, July 1984
JUST when you thought you had the bugger pinned down as a spent force, a wasted opportunist and black and white photocopy of a colourful historical ...

Public Image Ltd.: This Is What You Want, This Is What You Get (Virgin)
Review by Biba Kopf, NME, August 1984
DEAR JOHN, the big kiss off: ...

Punk: Rogues Gallery
Overview by Kris Needs, ZigZag, January 1986
TO PUT EVERYTHING INTO PERSPECTIVE, AS TO WHERE THE ORIGINALS FROM '76 HAVE GONE; BE IT A WAYSIDE DITCH OR A MAJOR RECORD COMPANY WATER BED, ...

John Lydon: This Is What You Get
Interview by Paul Morley, NME, February 1986
THIS IS the beginning of an interview with the John Lydon who has drunk seven cans of Red Stripe lager, after breakfasting on oysters. ...

PiL: Album
Review by Gavin Martin, NME, February 1986
THE WEST Coast News Dateline 2030 ...

John Lydon: Apocalypse New
Interview by Carol Clerk, Melody Maker, May 1986
SOMEBODY told me John Lydon liked a drink. And this was indeed a large crumb of comfort. Suddenly, it was possible to establish some common interest. ...

Public Image Ltd.: Album
Review by Roy Trakin, Creem, June 1986
I READ THE other day where Lee Abrams, the esteemed market research expert who brought us AOR radio, said he knew "snivelling Johnny Rotten would never ...

John Lydon: I Cry Alone
Interview by Jack Barron, NME, October 1987
DAY-GLO PINK mini-dreads erupt from his scalp like antennae made of candyfloss. Iceberg blue eyes stare from cigarette ash skin. A smirk. A belch of indignation. ...

PiL: Holidays in Estonia
Interview by Mat Snow, Sounds, September 1988
"I LOVE MOANING. That's what I live for!" cackles John Lydon as he surveys a pickled herring with an even fishier eye. "I'm going to have ...

John Lydon: …Heeere's Johnny!
Interview by Tom Hibbert, Q, July 1989
IN THE BAR OF the North London rehearsal studio complex, John Lydon, wearing a typically loud shirt, a pair of unorthodox dark spectacles and the kind ...

PiL: Three's Company…
Retrospective by David Stubbs, Uncut, January 2000
David Stubbs takes a shine to the mesmerising remorselessness of PUBLIC IMAGE LTD's post-punk Metal Box... ...

Post-Punk: Lubricate Your Living Room
Retrospective by Simon Reynolds, Uncut, December 2001
FORGET ABOUT THE NOSTALGIA-MONGERING AND KITSCH REVIVALISM – THE POST-PUNK PERIOD OF 1979-81 WAS AN ASTONISHINGLY FERTILE TIME FOR BRITISH MUSIC, WHEN INDIE LABELS FLOURISHED AND ...

Public Image Ltd.: Full Metal Jacket – Metal Box
Retrospective by Kris Needs, Fact, January 2004
With the curtain closed on the Sex Pistols pantomime, in 1978 a still-searing John Lydon teamed up with Jah Wobble and Keith Levene to form PiL. ...

see also Jah Wobble

see also John Lydon

see also Sex Pistols, The

see also Jah Wobble