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John Lydon confirms PiL's first album in 20 years will arrive in 2012, preceded by an EP
JOHN Lydon has confirmed that the first new PiL album in 20 years will arrive in 2012.
The record, which had initially been pegged with a late-2011 release date, will be preceded by a four-track EP of new songs on April 21.
Lydon said of the new material, “We record live, some songs are made up on the spot.”
The former Sex Pistol added that their new direction would be “completely experimental”, and, even less helpfully, “not moody and terrible”.
Lydon also spoke about a track slated to appear on the EP, ‘Lollipop Opera’, which he feels sums up one of the album’s central themes — looking back to his youth spent in North London’s racially diverse Finsbury Park district.
“It’s the scenario to how I lived my life,” he said of the song. “Led Zeppelin didn’t mean much to anyone in my manor. It meant enough, but we had a broad expanse — reggae, Greek and Turkish.”
PiL will be performing at London’s Queen Elizabeth Hall on March 16.
