Blog: Drawer B

John Lydon reunites Public Image Limited with questionable motives

Public Image Limited - Cruel
John Lydon, as simultaneously annoying and entertaining as he can be, is not one to play by the rules. The fact that he has flogged the dead horse that is the Sex Pistols' legacy for cheap, cash-cow reunions on numerous occasions is unsurprising to anyone who has even tangentially followed his career path. The Sex Pistols is/was/will always be the caricature of punk's genesis- the name that everyone recognizes but whose music far fewer actually know. Lydon's other claim to fame, Public Image Limited, has always served as Lydon's true(er) artistic statement. At least it did in the beginning. Although, [...]