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possible-streetwear · 2 months

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sowhatifiliveinfukuoka · 12 days

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Advert: Public Image Ltd. - Public Image (1979-01)

#RECORD MIRROR #PUBLIC IMAGE LTD.#PUBLIC IMAGE

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savage-kult-of-gorthaur · 9 months

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"THE QUALITY OF THE PICTURES WAS SO GOOD. I HAD A STINT OF HAVING IT WITH ME ALL THE TIME."

PIC(S) INFO: Mega-spotlight on behind-the-scenes Polaroids of English post-rock/post-punk/experimental music group PUBLIC IMAGE LIMITED, c. 1980-'81. 📸: Jeannette Lee.

OVERVIEW: "In late 1978, one year after the tumultuous break up of the SEX PISTOLS, John Lydon (a.k.a. Johnny Rotten) launched his new band, PUBLIC IMAGE LIMITED, featuring his childhood friend Jah Wobble on bass, and Keith Levene, former guitarist for THE CLASH, on guitar. Lydon had had a rough time of it; by the time the Sex Pistols disintegrated, he had no money, no privacy thanks to the band’s enduring notoriety and no real control over his punk past (former manager Malcolm McLaren had staked claim to the SEX PISTOLS’ image, forbidding Lydon to use the name Rotten for future endeavours). As a result, he deemed that Public Image Limited would be different: a band-cum-company comprised of trusted co-collaborators.

Shortly after founding the band he approached Jeannette Lee, now best known as the co-director of iconic independent label Rough Trade Records, inviting her into the PiL fold as a “non-musical member” of the group to help with press, promotion and general administration. Thus ensued a magical period of innovation and cooperation which saw PiL rise to greater and greater heights, blazing an avant-garde, post-punk trail. Now, a new limited-edition book of Polaroid photographs taken by Lee during her three or four-year tenure with the group, and published by IDEA, sheds candid light on this formative period of the band’s history.

Lydon and Lee had met through Don Letts, the then-manager of famous punk-reggae clothing store Acme Attractions on the King’s Road (where Lee also worked), and bonded over a shared love of reggae and their north London council estate backgrounds. “He came to me and said, "I’m starting this new thing. I want to work with people that I trust. I don’t want to work with any more idiots,"" Lee recalls in an interview with Jarvis Cocker – a close friend, whom she also manages and who helped her compile the publication – for the book’s accompanying text. “There was no real job description: just like-minded people joining forces.” Alongside the key band members, these included Don Letts, Sheila Rock, Judy Nylon and Plaxy Locatelli, among others, all of whom set up office in Lydon’s house in Gunter Grove, between Fulham and the King’s Road, and spent their days, in Lee’s words, "making manifestos and then living according to them."

It is in this intimate setting that many of Lee’s pictures are staged, taken from 1980 onwards, after the purchase of her Polaroid SX-70 camera on a trip to New York. “The quality of the pictures was so good. I had a stint of having it with me all the time. Taking pictures everywhere I went,” she tells Cocker. Lee was a natural photographer, her snapshots rendered in dreamy hues and boasting compelling compositions. Some of the images from the book will be recognisable to PiL fans – such as the brilliant photograph of Lydon gazing furtively into a spiderweb-etched mirror, which was used as the cover for the "Flowers of Romance" single – while many more have never been seen, and offer viewers wonderful insight into the very private world of PUBLIC IMAGE LIMITED. There’s a picture of one member tenderly clasping a puppy, one of Levene sitting in front of a strawberry milkshake, traces of its froth forming a moustache across his top lip, another of Lee and a boater-topped Lydon grinning goofily into the camera: the softer, sillier side of punk."

-- ANOTHER MAG, "Behind-the-Scenes Polaroids of Public Image Limited’s Heyday," by Daisy Woodward, c. May 2017

Source: www.anothermag.com/art-photography/9825/behind-the-scenes-polaroids-of-public-image-limiteds-heyday.

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ebookporn · 1 year

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How Barnes & Noble transformed its brand from corporate bully to lovable neighborhood bookstore

After years of store closings, Barnes & Noble is making a comeback with 30 new stores planned for 2023—and a new image.

by Rob Walker

Barnes & Noble ended 2022 with some surprising news: After more than a decade of shuttering locations, the chain plans to debut 30 new stores this year. “We’ve now got both the profitability and the confidence to start opening up stores again,” CEO James Daunt told The Wall Street Journal. And it’s hard to deny that the brand is enjoying its most flattering moment in the spotlight in ages. Somehow, one of the great cultural villains of the big-box retail heyday is now an underdog hero, making a welcome comeback as a symbol of the true love of books.

This definitely represents a new chapter for the chain. While it traces its roots to a late-19th century New York shop, Barnes & Noble went on to become synonymous with profit-centric and homogenous megastore culture that bullied mom-and-pop booksellers out of business. Famously, it was the obvious model for Fox Books, the rapacious chain in the 1998 romcom You’ve Got Mail. At its apex, around 2008, it had about 725 locations. “Barnes & Noble was perceived as not just the enemy,” a former chief executive of the American Booksellers Association, which represents indie shops, told the New York Times, “but as being everything about corporate book selling that was wrong.”

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werkboileddown · 7 months

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#public image #death disco #Youtube

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howifeltabouthim · 2 years

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I like Lana . . . She's so aloof and alien, all artifice and cinematic glamor—my shit.

Anna Dorn, from Exalted

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odk-2 · 1 year

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Keith Levene: 1957 – 2022

Keith Levene Julian Keith Levene July 18, 1957 – November 11, 2022

English Musician | Guitarist | Composer | Record Producer Founding member of both The Clash and Public Image Ltd.

Keith Levene, Founding Member of The Clash and Public Image Ltd, Dead at 65 - RollingStone Inventive guitarist left The Clash before their first album dropped and formed PiL with John Lydon and Jah Wobble

Keith Levene, The Clash and Public Image Ltd Guitarist, Dies at 65 - Pitchfork The co-founding member died peacefully at home on Friday, November 11

Keith Levene: Clash Guitarist and Founding Member Dies Aged 65 - BBC

Keith Levene - Wikipedia

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#Keith Levene #PiL #The Clash #Public Image Ltd #Obituary #Music History #Public Image

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bandchat · 1 year

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Keith Levene, the original guitarist for PiL, passed away on 11/11. He was a pioneering guitarist, best known for his work on their first three records. Although his stabbing, chirping, twangy, super treble-y tone on Metal Box is what he will be remembered for, I always go back to the catchy riffing and “solo” he played on First Issue’s “Public Image.”

#Public Image Limited #Public Image Ltd.#first issue #public image #John Lydon #johnny rotten #keith levene #jah wobble #metal box #second edition

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possible-streetwear · 1 month

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lashton-is-my-drug · 2 years

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Ash via his ig story links to an old post of his artwork during 2020 Superbloom era. The slide he links to is for “Sunshine”.

September 20, 2022

This song tackles some very vulnerable themes.

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Here’s a refresher of the lyrics to “Sunshine”, with my analysis in the brackets.

I've been living my life

But it's not how it looks [public image is a lie/different from what’s actually going on, his everyday life is hidden from public.]

I've been giving it time [he’s been waiting until he feels comfortable to not lie anymore.]

But that's all that it took [he can handle it and waiting is what is holding him back.]

So what now?

You've been feeding me lies [toxic management/record label? Being told what to say from the powers that be? Given the lies to tell to keep up a false public image? Being lied to about what the truth of the matter is? Spiritual awakening? Self-actualization journey?]

Now it's all that I know [trying to keep up with the public image of himself that he’s had to play along with for so many years? A cycle of lies is vicious and can become second nature if that’s how you’re living your life.]

I've been eating you up [Buying into the lies. Or the line is from perspective of the lies, which are eating him up.]

How am I supposed to grow? [if he’s keeping up with the lies, how is he supposed to mature and be connected with himself and the world around him in a true way?]

So what now?

Stop watching the news

You're something they use to

Scare you just like a bad dream [Ash giving good advice. the news media using uncertainty and scary language to keep people watching, creating more anxiety but feeds the pockets of the corporate media.]

Wake up tomorrow [Tomorrow is a new day!]

You'll cast a shadow on

Pavements that you're yet to see [A sense of hope that there’s so much life to live and discoveries to make and adventures to have.]

See the sunshine

Just like the first time

See the sunshine

Just like the first time

Not just today

Not just tomorrow

But now till forever and ever

See the sunshine

I've been living my life

In a tiny toolbox [stuck in a small limited space metaphorically, boxed in, unable to live authentically as himself and further expand his potential.]

Now I'm locked in the house

Like I live in Fort Knox [reference to the forced lockdown during the onset height of COVID-19 pandemic.

So what now?

Now I'm thinking

My life could be more than it's been [time to come out of that “toolbox”? Lockdown forced many people to do self-reflection. Looking inward and evaluate what’s going on in their lives, where they are, and where they want to be, and what they truly value. It sounds like this is what happened for Ash, as well.]

I should meet other people [try to get out of one’s own head and connect with others.]

And see what they mean [Listening and exploring others ideas and perceptions, asking questions of others]

So what now?

All my misfortunes

All of my triumphs

All of my satellite dreams [All of the experiences he’s had in his life thus far, “satellite dreams” sounds like it’s about sending out his messages through his art and trying to connect with people through his art/music.]

Expensive perfumes

Ladies do not lose [when these women enter the picture for the stunts, they gain money and clout and attention. It’s fake but they gain something from the position.]

Playing but not on the team [Bold and loud lyric. This sounds to me like it’s about having to play pretend that he’s in these relationships and is different than what he says in his art as part of his public image, but actually he’s “not on the team” because he “bats for the other team” aka gay. If this is accurate, then I want to say how proud I am of him! ❤️🏳️‍🌈]

See the sunshine

Just like the first time

See the sunshine

Just like the first time

Not just today

Not just tomorrow

But now till forever and ever

See the sunshine

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sowhatifiliveinfukuoka · 5 days

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Public Image Ltd.

Public Image (1978)

#PUBLIC IMAGE LTD.#PiL #PUBLIC IMAGE

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savage-kult-of-gorthaur · 1 year

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HAPPY 67th B-DAY, JOHN LYNDON, ON THIS DAY!! PENSIONER OF PUNK & POST-PUNK!

PIC(S) INFO: Happy 67th b-day, John Joseph Lydon, born on this day, January 31, 1956, also, spotlight on cover art to MOJO Magazine issue #122 (January 16, 2004), featuring an outtake on the cover from the "First Issue" photo sessions, and a story on PiL within its pages. 📸: Dennis Morris.

MINI-BIO: Also known by his former stage name Johnny Rotten, he remains best known as the lead singer of punk rock band the SEX PISTOLS, and later, as front man and band-leader of UK post-punk/post-rock/experimental music band PUBLIC IMAGE LTD. (PiL).

Sources: https://bauer-mojo4music.squarespace.com/articles/2046/mojo-issue-122-january-2004, Pinterest, various, etc.

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w-armansky-blog · 2 years

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Katharine Hepburn through the lens of a German-born American photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt, New York City, 1938

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fightingforyourkindof-quiet · 2 years

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Harry Styles and Taylor Swift are actually the same like Harry was labelled as "womanizer" and Taylor as the "serial dater" when in fact both of them are just gay af.

#harry styles #taylor swift #public image

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theaskew · 5 days

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#music #Public Image Ltd #Public Image #John Lydon #post punk #new wave #track sample #British music #British punk

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