John Lydon as Public Image Ltd.
Oh, John Lydon. He’s impacted music twice and remained an obnoxious geezer the entire time. It’s worth wondering how much of that’s actually an act and how much it’s just personality. Regardless of the answer, though, the guy’s issued some thoroughly entertaining, if not torrentially twisted music.
After the Sex Pistols basically did all it was capable of over the course of a full length album – well, there was that soundtrack, but it didn’t seem to be a concerted studio affair – scattered band members picked up other groups or did too much smack and potentially killed their girlfriend. Lyond wasn’t a murderer, so he picked up Jah Wobble and Keith Levene in order to sort out Public Image Ltd’s first line up.
