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Public Image Limited: Life's A Beach

Neil Perry, Select, December 1990

In Public Image Limited's 12 years at pop's outer limits — a career now highlighted on a compilation LP — John Lydon's lifestyle has become a permanent holiday in the sun. At his Santa Monica beach home Lydon is worlds away from the days of sharing a squat with Sid Vicious, but the good life hasn't blunted that sharp tongue

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