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Public Image Ltd. News

John Lydon: 'If you want to know why PiL don't have a record label, look at 'X Factor''

Singer says there's no way innovative musicians 'would ever pass the first round' of TV talent show

Public Image Ltd to reissue entire back catalogue

John Lydon's band will also release a brand new album in 2012

John Lydon reveals title of new Public Image Ltd album

Singer also dismisses the idea that he 'made a fortune in the Sex Pistols'

John Lydon loses Public Image Ltd. songs after his house burns down

Lydon also describes working with PiL as 'the most difficult thing I've ever had to do in my entire life'

Public Image Ltd confirm they're working on new material

John Lydon's mob are back in the studio

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Public Image Ltd. Music Videos

Seattle (2005 Digital Remaster) Play Video

Seattle (2005 Digital Remaster)

Official music video for the track Seattle (2005 Digital Remaster) by Public Image Ltd.

Disappointed (2005 Digital Remaster) Play Video

Disappointed (2005 Digital Remaster)

Official music video for the track Disappointed (2005 Digital Remaster) by Public Image Ltd.

Public Image Ltd's John Lydon At Benicassim -  NME Sneak Preview Play Video

Public Image Ltd's John Lydon At Benicassim - NME Sneak Preview

In this trailer for our longer interview, we talk (or try to talk) to Public Image Ltd and Sex Pistols man John Lydon (aka Johnny Rotten) backstage at Benicassim 2010. Turns out he's not a fan of Gorillaz...

Public Image Limited At Benicassim 2010 with NME Play Video

Public Image Limited At Benicassim 2010 with NME

In a brilliantly eccentric exchange, PiL man John Lydon (a.k.a. Johnny Rotten) talks Gorillaz, the "mélange of shit" that is current music, selling butter, and the self-loathing, self-doubt, and feeling sick at heart...

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Public Image Ltd - Rise Play Video

Public Image Ltd - Rise

Rise, by Public Image Ltd

PIL - Public Image Play Video

PIL - Public Image

you never listen to a word that I said, you only seen me for the clothes that I wear, or did the interest go so much deeper it must have been the colour of my hair...

Public Image Ltd. Poptones Play Video

Public Image Ltd. Poptones

Performed on the old Grey Whistle test.

Public Image Ltd - Disappointed Play Video

Public Image Ltd - Disappointed

Music video by Public Image Ltd performing Disappointed (2005 Digital Remaster).

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Public Image Ltd. Biography

Public Image Ltd (PiL) are an English post-punk band formed by vocalist John Lydon (aka Johnny Rotten), guitarist Keith Levene and bassist Jah Wobble, with frequent subsequent personnel changes. Lydon is the sole constant member of the band.

Lydon emerged after the break-up of the Sex Pistols with PiL's First Issue (1978). His new band had a more experimental sound: Wobble's "droning, slow-tempo, bass-heavy noise rock, overlaid by Lydon's distinctive, vituperative rant." Their early work is often regarded as some of the most challenging and innovative music of the post-punk era. Their 1979 album Metal Box was ranked number 469 on Rolling Stone magazine's 2003 list of the 500 greatest albums of all time. The NME described PiL as "arguably the first post-rock group".

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Public Image Ltd. Lyrics

Public Image Ltd. - Sand Castles In The Snow Lyrics

Madmen fry
This is bad for their health
In the midday sky
Everything has its appointed hour

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Public Image Ltd. - Armada Lyrics

And I, I won't be stupid
State the obvious, pleasant platitude
Bad policies, mega magnitude
Magnificent

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Public Image Ltd. - Think Tank Lyrics

Could have been a major problem
But I did not, I didn't look back
And all you dirty druggies
Chicken shit, Sad Sacks

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Public Image Ltd. - Covered Lyrics

Some unions are based on trust, some unions are a must
Trussed up like a turkey, upside down on a turn key
You and me

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Public Image Ltd. - Luck's Up Lyrics

When the blood in your drugs turns to shale
They had you hung, drawn and quartered tooth and nail
Empty pockets making idle hands
Mugging as a job requires good plans

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Public Image Ltd. - Memories Lyrics

You make me feel ashamed
At acting attitudes
Remember ridicule
It should be clear by now

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Public Image Ltd. - Good Things Lyrics

Little white lies, they hold little surprise

Good things come in threes
The places I haunt, the powers I taunt

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Public Image Ltd. - Albatross Lyrics

Slow motion, slow motion
Getting rid of the albatross
Sowing the seeds of discontent
I know you very well, you are unbearable

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Public Image Ltd. - Same Old Story Lyrics

Some people got more kicks than halfpence
Crying for attention, like cracks in the pavement
All of this pointed, like perfect TV
When you're sowing the wind, you reap the whirlwind

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Public Image Ltd. - God Lyrics

I can only feel and think in the language of
Clinches others have concocted for you
Pre-fabricated, pre-conception
Worn like the walls all around you, all around you

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Public Image Ltd. Discography

Public Image Ltd. albums.

  • Flowers of Romance - 04/1990 (Virgin/GB)
  • Metal Box - (Virgin/GB)
  • Happy? - 17/09/1987 (Virgin/GB)
  • Second Edition - (Virgin/GB)
  • Compact Disc - (Elektra/US)
  • This Is What You Want... This Is What You Get - 07/1984 (Virgin/GB)

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