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Keith Levene: The Bitterest PiL

Julie Panebianco, Boston Rock, 11 October 1983

THE URGENT guitar playing that cuts through the rumble of 'The Public Image Theme' isn't just the sound of a guitar going through an amp. Powerful, proud, hypnotic, cloaked in disquieting rhythms, the lead guitar of Keith Levene defined Public Image Ltd.

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