Public Image Ltd.

Public Image Ltd. (PIL) is an English rock band formed in 1978 by vocalist John Lydon (ex-Sex Pistols), guitarist Keith Levene (ex-The Clash) and bassist Jah Wobble.Pill is widely regarded as one of the most influential, innovative and controversial bands by the end of the 1970s and the early 1980s. The band was on hold since 1992.Since 2009 the band is active again and in 2012 they released a new album.



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[hide] *1 History  ==History[ Edit] == After John Lydon (also known as Johnny Rotten) had left the Sex Pistols 1978 in January right after a tour of the United States, he recruited his old friend bassist Jah Wobble as (despite the fact that the man never had played bass) and Keith Levene (who he knew from a tour with The Clash in 1976) as guitarist. Jim Walker, aCanadian student, was through an ad caught up as a drummer.
 * 2 discography
 * 2.1 Studio albums
 * 2.2 Live albums, compilations and other
 * 2.3 Singles and 12 "maxi-singles
 * 2.4 Bootlegs
 * 3 external links

In October 1978 the first single Public Image came out and appeared in december of that same year the debut album First Issue (also known under the name Public Image). The album was praised to the skies by the critics. It contained many dub and reggae influences and especially the bass sound of Wobble was innovative.

Jim Walker left the band in early 1979. A series of drummers were tested and it was found wanting and Richard Dudanski who spends most of the recordings for the album for Metal Box . However, he was quickly replaced with Martin Atkins. The single Death Disco, which was again built around a hypnotic bass line, became a minor hit in the United Kingdom. Metal Box was originally released in the form of three 12 "45 rpm records in a metal film look and was reconstructed around the characteristicdub-bass lines of Wobble and the gloomy vocals and paranoid lyrics by Lydon.

In 1980 went on tour in the United States and Pill appeared the band the American television, in the teen program American Bandstand. Lydon left a clear notice that he's voice, attacked a cameraman tricky and invited the audience on the stage from. The show (and the whole tour) ended in a complete mess.

Still during the American tour Jah Wobble left the band. He was already unhappy with the lack of ambition of the band and later had still a fairly successful solo career.Martin Atkins also was in the meantime been replaced by the 60-year-old jazz drummer Sam Ulano. A concert at the Ritz in New York (in which gave a kind of improvisation at best pill without bassist) led to a fight in which bottles were thrown to the stage.

In 1981 Martin Atkins was recalled as a drummer for the recording of Flowers Of Romance. The album was eventually much more experimental and pensive than Metal Box and Keith Levene, who in the meantime was switched on synthesizer and bass, made, along with the separate drum style of Atkins, for a totally new style. The album consisted mainly of drums, vocals, keyboards and samples.

In 1982 was an album recorded with the new bass player Pete Jones, but that was never released. It was only later by Levene (who had left the band after a quarrel with Atkins) released as bootleg under the name Commercial Zone. According to Lydon and Atkins would have stolen the master tapes Levene. The single This Is Not A Love Song was, however, a club classic.

Quite a few numbers of Commercial Zone was re-recorded for the next album, This Is What You Want ...This Is What You Get from 1984. This sounds the band, which for the most part consisted of session musicians, all different, much more pop and dance-oriented. After a dramatic live album, Live in Tokyoalso left the band, Martin Atkins .

In 1986, the band recorded its next Album on plate under production by Bill Laswell. Pill existed at that time from Lydon, guitarist John McGeoch (ex-Siouxsie and The Banshees and Magazine), multi-instrumentalist Lu Edmunds, bassist Allan Dias and drummer Bruce Smith. The single is a hit in the United Kingdom Rise . Happy was released in 1987. Edmunds left the band in 1988 and the album 9 came out in 1989. Smith left the band in 1990.

To date the last Pill-album, That What Is Not, appeared in 1992. Lydon disbanded the group a year later after record company Virgin had refused to finance the tour to promote the album. The last lineup of Lydon, McGeoch consisted of Pill, Ted Chau (guitar and keyboards), Mike Joyce (ex-The Smiths) and Russell Webb (bass).

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In the fall of 2009, pill a comeback. The band played a number of gigs in the United Kingdom. The line-up for that tour consisted of Lydon, Lu Edmunds (guitar), Bruce Smith (drums) and new acquisition Scott Firth (bass). In the spring of 2010, the band toured North America, followed by a number of performances in Europe<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-1" len="168" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[1] . ==Discography<span class="mw-editsection" len="335" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == ===Studio albums<span class="mw-editsection" len="336" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === ===Live albums, compilations and other<span class="mw-editsection" len="357" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === ===Singles and 12 "maxi-singles<span class="mw-editsection" len="356" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === ===Bootlegs<span class="mw-editsection" len="332" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">]  ===
 * First Issue/Public Image (Virgin, 1978)
 * Metal Box (Virgin, 1979)
 * The Flowers Of Romance (Virgin, 1981)
 * This Is What You Want ...This Is What You Get (Virgin, 1984)
 * Album (Virgin, 1986)
 * Happy? (Virgin, 1987)
 * ' 9 ' (Virgin, 1989)
 * That What Is Not (Virgin, 1992)
 * This is Pill (Pill Official, 2012)
 * Second Edition (republication of Metal Box) (Virgin, 1980)
 * Paris au Printemps (live) (Virgin, 1980)
 * Live in Tokyo (Virgin, 1983)
 * The Greatest Hits So Far (Virgin, 1990)
 * Box (1990)
 * Public Image (Virgin, 1978)
 * Death Disco (Virgin, 1979)
 * Memories (Virgin, 1979)
 * Flowers Of Romance (Virgin, 1981)
 * This Is Not A Love Song (Virgin, 1983)
 * Bath Life (Virgin, 1984)
 * Rise (Virgin, 1986)
 * Home (Virgin, 1986)
 * Seattle (Virgin, 1987)
 * The Body (Virgin, 1987)
 * This Is Not A Love Song /Public Image (reissue) (Old Gold, 1988)
 * Disappointed (Virgin, 1989)
 * Warrior (Virgin, 1989)
 * Don't Ask Me (Virgin, 1990)
 * Cruel (Virgin, 1992)
 * Commercial Zone (PiL Records, 1983)