Nobody wanted, particularly me, to sound like my first outfit,” he adds. We were all guessing what we were going to do and we loaded ourselves into a rehearsal studio, stared at each other for about 20 minutes, drank a bit, imbibed in what was available and slowly but surely had a bit of confidence in each other and started to make noises in the individual corners and that is what came out of that. “When I formed PiL, I got what I thought were very best, closest friends. “In truth it was pure guess work,” he says. With the band’s influential first single “Public Image” brilliantly laying out the band’s mission statement and a revolutionary sound that set the stage for the post-punk movement, you might think a lot of planning went into the band’s launch, but Lydon says that wasn’t the case. They debuted with the eponymous single and debut album, First Issue, before the year’s end. Instead, he formed a new outfit, Public Image Ltd, with former Clash guitarist Keith Levene, aspiring bassist Jah Wobble and drummer Jim Walker. After the Sex Pistols flamed out following a final show at San Francisco’s Winterland Ballroom on Jan. 14, 1978, Lydon was legally forbidden from using his Rotten stage name, but he didn’t let that stop him. If nothing else, Lydon has always shown ambition.
You know, ‘Get out of bed you lazy git!'” “I think that’s the methodology I’ve applied all my life - just force yourself into that harder and harder situation just to find out how deep your character really is…Work is it’s actual own reward. “That to me is of very great interest because it becomes a personal battle to see just how far I can push myself,” he adds. Still, even if he’s a bit overwhelmed, Lydon is enjoying the challenge. It always works out that way, doesn’t it? You go to the most anticipated party of the year and there’s people who you owe money there.” I thought it would be like some kind of joyous party. “They’re wonderful issues to have, but it’s all slamming into to me all at once. “It’s almost overwhelming because all the issues,” Lydon says in a phone interview at a tour stop in London.
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