5/18/2023 0 Comments Public image ltd johnny rotten![]() ![]() ![]() Vai’s solo sears as Led Zeppelin immensity is attained.Ĭharacterised by an astounding performance from Lydon (assurance, technique and vocal maturity coalescing perfectly as he hit his mid‑thirties) and masterful guitar work from ex-Magazine and Siouxsie And The Banshees post-punk pioneer John McGeoch, Cruel captures a criminally undervalued PiL line-up at the peak of their powers.Ī collaboration with Leftfield that introduced Lydon to the rave generation, Open Up was the shot in the arm his career needed. Producer Bill Laswell’s manager Roger Trilling says “the trees swayed and the flowers cried” as Ginger recorded his drums. ![]() With the BBC failing to remake Steptoe & Son with the late Ginger Baker as Albert and John Lydon as Harold – you know it would have made sense – this’ll have to stand as their finest collaboration. Its ‘anger is an energy’ coda soon came to define Lydon’s own public image. Jonas Hellborg’s stuttering fretless bass, Tony Williams’s immense beat, Steve Vai’s soaring guitar atmospherics, highlife counter-rhythms and Celtic blessings coincide in the only hit to celebrate Nelson Mandela while condemning RUC torture techniques. ![]()
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