Name: PIL - Live on Check It Out 1979 (full version)
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It's not worth a mention in the Guardian.

Where did you get the name Public Image Limited from?

It was a name of a tune and it seemed to really suit the band.

It's got a lot of oblique meanings in it or whatever, you know, it's very oblique, very ironical name.

Thinking Public Image came up quite a while ago and I think you've changed quite a bit since then.

What direction do you see the band going in now?

We do not like cheap publicity, pseudo gimmicks, condescension, crawling.

And that is what was expected from us tonight, was it not?

After all, you would only interview me and wobble at first until we refused point blank.

Yeah, but that was just for technical reasons.

That was just for technical reasons, Johnny.

But by going through all this, is this not just a cheap gimmick and publicity stunt?

I mean, you've just been really awkward here this evening.

We've been as pleasant as we could be to you.

I tell you what, just for a second, I've got a quote here from when you were with the Sex Pistols, Johnny.

You're reported to have said we're the only honest band to hit this planet in about 2000 million years.

You just hold on for a second because in a moment I'd like to ask you how honest you think you've been to all the fans who've supported you from the start.

Because we went out the other day and we talked to some people who are still very much into punk and what it's all about.

How did you all get started off on punk music then?

Well, can I say that it had nothing to do with Johnny Rotten, right?

I just say, first of all, right, that I'm much better looking than Johnny Rotten and that he's a terrible singer.

And I'm glad Jimmy Percy's got his job in the Sex Pistols, okay.

I think it was the best thing that Pistol's ever done, sacking Johnny Rotten.

What is your personal view on the music itself but the Pistols music?

I think the pistols would be 100 better without Johnny Rotten.

Not nothing to do with the Pistols or Johnny Rotten or anything, because it's really down to earth music.

Like the everybody else around you castle area.

We don't want to end up like Genesis or anything like that, you know, playing music or kind of handle.

All the f. And everything that's spun off as a result of punk?

It was good when it first came out, when it was cheap.

But the thing is, punk rock became a fashion because of people like Malcolm McLaren.

People like that, you can do without people like that, you know, big people bring it into the fashion and then somebody else brings another fashion.

See, anything new, anything new becomes a fashion.

You don't watch what they're doing, you know, I think leather's the only one that's stuck like that's in the rock business.