Johnny Rotten

Public Image Ltd have a new album on the way, What The World Needs Now…, which will be out September 4 via PiL Official. The band made the album at Steve Winwood’s Wincraft studio in the Cotswolds’ and you can stream opening cut “Double Trouble” right now…

With so much trash talking, it’s hard to know when to take Lydon seriously (could his theory be true that one of Sid Vicious’s drug debtors planted a knife on him and framed him for the killing of Nancy Spungen…

Public Image Ltd completed their reign of New York City with the second of two NYC area shows at Hammerstein Ballroom on Saturday (10/13)…

When you see them live the music is so intense that I always end up feeling like I’m on some type of crazy journey that involves a great deal of swimming, submerging and resurfacing, lol – no I’m not on drugs but I know how good you’re supposed to feel and I certainly feel that way when I hear PiL‘s music live…

In addition to everything else we posted, today, here’s some more, and some reminders too… Hope to see you at Pianos tonight, unless of course you’re celebrating Yom Kippur which started at sundown (or under 21)…

As far as vinyl records go, there are some that are ten a penny and others that are a little rarer, but a Sex Pistols recording of “God Save The Queen” has been named by Record Collection as the most valuable vinyl in the world…

“Was the pope a nazi? Yes the pope was a nazi” – Johnny Rotten PiL @ MHOW – 5/19/2010 (Brooklyn365)”Hey. We were dancing next to each other for basically the entire Public Image Ltd…

“Despite the leather-clad, spikyhaired lookalikes who peppered the audience at Terminal 5 last night, there is only one Johnny Rotten. Rotten, 54, who these days goes by his given name, John Lydon, is still the brash, politically outspoken, anti-authoritarian punk who assaulted music, first as a Sex Pistol and then by leading the post-punk movement with his other band, Public Image LTD…

This year, the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival reveals that tattoos are more ubiquitous among social scenes than ever before. A walking museum of quotes and legendary faces from Jesus to Michael Jackson decorates the backs, shoulders, calves and fingers of people fashionably reliving their favorite historical decades at this heat-stroke inducing music marathon…

“For me Malc was always entertaining, and I hope you remember that. Above all else he was an entertainer and i will miss him, and so should you” – Johnny Rotten on Malcom McLaren Public Image Ltd‘s upcoming US tour kicks off Tuesday night, April 13th in LA before continuing to Coachella for a show on Friday…