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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Their first studio LP in 20 years, This is PiL was supposed to be the big comeback for the laureate John Lydon vehicle. But it would be safe to say from that little bit that I thought it might be best ...

Public Image LTD are slated to head out on tour in the US this fall. That tour includes a Chicago stop at the House of Blues on October 21. Tickets go on sale this Wednesday (8/1) at 10AM CST. PiL ...

After the Sex Pistols crashed and burned in 1978, Johnny Rotten now John Lydon – conjured PiL from the ashes, melding his own personal demons and passion for reggae, dub, and disco, assaulting the UK ...

Anyone who went to the Public Image Limited show expecting to find John Lydon, a.k.a. Johnny Rotten, doing his impression of a state fair oldies band were probably pleasantly... Anyone who went to the ...

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 ...

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 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 ...