Happy 70th birthday to John Lydon, born in Finsbury Park, London on this day in 1956.
He could be wrong, he could be right.
The Sex PistolsHappy Birthday Paul Cook!(the best rhythm section in Punk ever Cook and Jones distinctive and as raucous as it got they were bang on!)
fight this sickness find a cure (geddit!?) . . . .
p.i.l. - live at oxford apollo theatre 1986
this is fun . . . . not brilliant quality but what ya gonna do . . . . . . it’s local so it's for Diamond Dave!
peter says . . . . .
This is listed as a track but is the warm up pre-mewsic and is a running joke of Johnny’s geddit?
PiL - HOMEOn this date in 1986, PiL released their fifth studio album, ALBUM, (January 27th, 1986).On 1986’s ALBUM (also known as Compact Disc or Cassette depending on the format), producer Bill Laswell had assembled a band enough to slacken even the most hardened cynic's jaw – aside from Laswell himself on bass and John Lydon, the outfit featured Yellow Magic Orchestra's Ryuichi Sakamoto on keyboards, Tony Williams, the legendary Ginger Baker on drums and find-of-the-month Steve Vai on crunchola guitar.ALBUM was arguably the strongest selection of poptunes PiL had turned out since Metal Box, one of the great LPs of the '80s.The video here is the post-punk snarl of HOME, the underrated second and final single from ‘Album’.
‘Now there’s a saucy girl,’ he grins. ‘It’s love, you know. I’ve always loved that woman. And she knows it. When we met we didn’t expect to get on. We’d both been told the other was a bad ‘un. But blimey. Sparks flew. It was instant attraction. And that’s never gone. I never expected to feel like that. I never thought I was in any way attractive. Or anyone’s idea of a good date.
‘It’s volatile, the marriage. Which one isn’t? Nothing better than a good, full-on row. Get it all out. Say rude and nasty things. And then be sorry. Genuinely sorry, afterwards.
“But you know I can’t think of a better woman on God’s earth than Nora. If we ceased to function as a couple tomorrow there would be no one else. Not ever. I mean it.’
with thanks to Sounds of '71
