In Scottish writer Muriel Spark’s 1968 novel, The Public Image, actress Annabel Christopher is obsessed with her appearance. She pleases obsessed fans and paparazzi with a made-up persona, and ...

In 2007, I spoke with John Lydon—better known as Sex Pistols frontguy Johnny Rotten—for Harp magazine’s “Words of Wisdom” feature. When representing the notorious punk rock band, Lydon (as he prefers ...

Public Image Ltd. (PiL) are confirmed to take part in the competition to represent Ireland at the 67th annual Eurovision Song Contest with the most personal piece of songwriting and accompanying ...

Established in 1978 Public Image Ltd, at that time consisting of the Artist Formerly Known as Johnny Rotten on vocals, Jah Wobble on bass, Keith Levene on guitar and Jim Walker on drums, released ...

Since 2009, John Lydon’s musical focus has been the resurrected Public Image Ltd. Lydon launched Public Image Ltd. in 1978, shortly after he quit The Sex Pistols, the pioneering British punk band that ...

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 Design. Rotten has dubbed his new band Public ...

Some might wonder whether a band which doesn't exactly make headlines is worthy of this massive retrospective, (five CDs and two DVDs in the CD version or six LPs in the vinyl version). Well the truth ...

“In many ways, I feel like I’m 17 again and starting from scratch,” he says on the phone from Los Angeles. He’s talking about the release of This is PiL, Public Image Ltd’s first new album in 20 years ...

John Lydon and his Public Image Ltd. will reassemble in 2015 to release their new album What the World Needs Now… and embark on a lengthy tour of Europe and North America. What the World Needs Now…, ...

Where some musicians peak early only to spend the rest of their careers trying to climb back, few have ever consciously gone farther in the other direction than John Lydon. Music nerds might know the ...

Keith Levene, the guitarist and original founding member of influential British punk bands the Clash and Public Image Ltd (PiL), died on Friday (Nov. 11) at the age of 65. Levene’s partner, Kate ...

Lydon, once the edgy heart of British punk, a mercurial, snidely uncomfortable presence, has graduated over the years into an eye-rolling pantomime dame and, of course, the butter ads and other ...