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Public Image Ltd

August 2023

  • four sixtysomething punk rockers all in a row

    Public Image Ltd: End of World review – a frustratingly mixed bag

    John Lydon and band once again veer between hit and miss, from the poignantly affecting to the particularly annoying

July 2023

  • John Lydon

    ‘I won’t let the bastards grind me down’: John Lydon on grief, feuds and being an unlikely optimist

    Covid, court, bereavement: although the PiL man’s new album could not have been made against a worse backdrop, his glass of non-alcoholic cider remains half full

May 2023

  • Jah Shaka DJing at Womad music festival in 2016.

    Jah Shaka obituary

    Reggae pioneer and record producer who transformed the sound system landscape

January 2023

  • The Factory poster advertising the first club nights.

    Factory flaw: hunt for stolen 1977 sign that put Manchester on pop music map

  • John Lydon performing with Public Image Ltd in London, June 2022.

    John Lydon’s Public Image Ltd compete to represent Ireland at Eurovision

November 2022

  • Public Image Limited Plays The Agora Ballroom, Atlanta<br>ATLANTA - APRIL 24: Guitarist Keith Levene of Public Image Limited (PIL) performs at the Agora Ballroom on April 24, 1980 in Atlanta, Georgia. ( Photo by Tom Hill/Getty Images)

    Keith Levene obituary

    Guitarist and musician who was a founding member of the Clash and Public Image Ltd
  • Alexis Petridis

    Keith Levene wrote his own rules for rock guitar

    Alexis Petridis
    His ambition to ‘use it in different ways’ helped steer PiL’s post-punk to genuinely fresh ground and was a formative influence for both U2 and My Bloody Valentine
  • Keith Levene, left, with John Lydon in 1981

    Keith Levene, founding member of the Clash, dies at 65

    Influential post-punk musician was an original member of the Clash before founding PiL with John Lydon and Jah Wobble

June 2022

  • John Lydon photographed at home in Los Angeles, may 2022

    The G2 interview
    ‘I know what it’s like to be frightened’: John Lydon on loneliness, lyrics and life as a Sex Pistol

    After 45 years of picking fights, the former Johnny Rotten is squaring up to his ex-bandmates, director Danny Boyle and anyone who disrespects the Queen. But what’s really impressive is his capacity for love

October 2020

  • John Lydon photographed in his garden near Venice Beach, Los Angeles, California for the Observer New Review.

    John Lydon: 'Don't become entrenched in one opinion and get stuck there for ever'

    The former Sex Pistols frontman talks about looking after his wife, Nora, his support for Trump and Brexit, and why he can’t abide ‘moaners’

July 2018

  • Keith Levene and John Lydon in 1981.

    PiL: The Public Image Is Rotten (Songs From the Heart) review – how John Lydon bulldozed pop

    From the rubble of the Sex Pistols arose a ‘consortium of like-minded loonies’ whose collision of dub, funk and punk smashed open the mainstream

February 2018

  • John Lydon on stage with PiL in 2009.

    My songbook
    John Lydon: 'I didn’t want to be a comfortable, Mick Jagger-type naughty pop star'

    From the Sex Pistols to the various iterations of PiL, via collaborations with Afrika Bambaataa and Leftfield, the legend, innovator and butter salesman picks the best of his output in the latest instalment of our songbook series

May 2017

  • Barbara Ellen

    This is not a love song - perhaps it never was

    Barbara Ellen
    Billboard reports that love songs are falling out of fashion, but maybe it was always a cover for something else

January 2017

  • Pere Ubu performing in London

    Readers recommend
    Readers recommend playlist: your most startling songs

    A reader picks a playlist of alarming songs – and shock horror – it features the Cardiacs, Diamanda Galás and Public Image Ltd

May 2016

  • Black Sabbath performing as "Heaven and Hell"<br>BRIGHTON, ENGLAND - NOVEMBER 11: Guitarist Tony Iommi of Black Sabbath performing as Heaven and Hell on stage at the Brighton Centre on November 11, 2007 in Brighton, England. "Heaven and Hell" is a reincarnation of one of the more successfull 1980's line ups of heavy metal supergroup Black Sabbath. (Photo by Dave Etheridge-Barnes/Getty Images)

    Readers recommend
    Readers recommend playlist: songs about sinners

    Johnny Cash, Black Sabbath and Morrissey accompany our reader on a journey into sin

January 2016

  • Photo of PUBLIC IMAGE LTD and John LYDON<br>UNITED STATES - APRIL 01: Photo of PUBLIC IMAGE LTD and John LYDON (Photo by Peter Noble/Redferns)

    From Rock's Backpages
    John Lydon: 'Have I mellowed? Absolutely f***ing not' – a classic interview

    We celebrate the former Sex Pistol turning 60 with this piece showing him on drunkenly eviscerating form, first published in Q in July 1989 and taken from Rock’s Backpages, the online home of music writing

October 2015

  • John Lydon

    Life on a plate
    John Lydon: I dyed my hair green, and Dad called me a brussels sprout

    The PiL frontman on food and a London childhood, squatting with Sid Vicious and boating in California
  • Public Image Limited

    Listen up
    A sweetened PiL: watch the video for Public Image Ltd's The One

    The homemade video for the band’s new single finds John Lydon in a mellow mood
  • John Lydon of Public Image Ltd.

    Public Image Ltd review – Lydon’s unrefined invective still engrossing

    John Lydon, punk’s eternal provocateur, comes on like a commedia dell’arte performer trying to ruin a perfectly good funk-pop band

September 2015

  • Public Image Limited 2015

    Public Image Ltd: What the World Needs Now … review – undimmed punk biliousness

    John Lydon is as febrile as ever on PiL’s rousing new album, even if most of the moves here are becoming pretty familiar
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