"Public Image would like to thank absolutely no-one." The dedication on PiL's first album served notice that John Lydon's punk sneer hadn't entirely vanished. Released in December 1978, First Edition ...

Born in Stepney, London, in 1958 and coming of age in the ‘70s, John Joseph Wardle was born to play punk rock, most notably as the original bassist in John Lydon’s post-Sex Pistols group Public Image ...

Critic Nicholas Lezard looks back 40 years to the post punk versus punk stand off between Public Image Ltd and The Clash, and finds, in John Lydon at least, an example of lightning striking twice in ...

Beautiful, strange, spontaneous, frightening, skeletal, spacious, arid and elegiac: Metal Box by Public Image Limited is made up of the bleached white bones of art rock, disco and reggae, reassembled ...

Records are round and album covers are square. Well, usually. Image was important to Lydon at least as far back as his Sex Pistols days, though the debate continues to rage over whether the band or ...