FIGHT THIS SICKNESS FIND A CURE | P.I.L :: OXFORD APOLLO THEATRE 1986

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 . . . . . 

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21.05.1986

England, Oxford - Apollo

Setlist :

Kashmir (Led Zeppelin intro mewsic) geddit?*

F.F.F.

Annalisa

Fishing

Poptones

Pretty Vacant (Sex Pistols cover)

Banging the Door

Flowers of Romance

Bags

Round

Home

Public Image

Rise

Low Life

World Destruction (Time Zone cover)

Ease

This is listed as a track but is the warm up pre-mewsic and is a running joke of Johnny’s geddit?

home

PiL - HOME

On 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’.

 

John Lydon bid for Ireland’s Eurovision Song dedicated to his wife Nora | HAWAII

 

Hawaii is available to download or Stream Hawaii now! https://lnk.to/PublicImageLtd_Hawaii Hawaii Video Credits Directed by John Rambo Stevens Produced by John Rambo Stevens & D. D. Boling Editing and concert footage filming by D. D. Boling Executive Producers: John Lydon & John Rambo Stevens © PiL Official 2023

Why? This is why . . . . . . 

The former Sex Pistols frontman John Lydon joins us to talk about his bid to represent Ireland at this year’s Eurovision. He emotionally reflects on the song Hawaii, a love letter to his wife of nearly 5 decades, Nora, who is living with Alzheimer’s.

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John Lydon & Nora Forster, married over 30 years.

‘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.’

I had no idea and why should we know about our musicians partners, wives and girl and boyfriends etc. but this struck me as brilliant as quotes go. He came to Oxford to do a signing after I had left Blackwell's Book Shop but those that went really enjoyed it and said how lovely he was which I wasn't expecting from 'Johnny Rotten' I think I was actually too scared to go but have most recordings or certainly the classic ones, the Sex Pistols album and PIL's Metal Box