Show Notes
On First Concert Memories 39 we are happy to welcome Andrew of Tunes From Turtle Island, our brother from Pantheon Podcasts, to recall a night 40 years ago in Brixton when Public Image Ltd took the stage. Not because it was a great communion of punks idolizing one of their true heroes in John Lydon, aka Johnny Rotten of The Sex Pistols, but because they may have witnessed the end of their own idolatry of a popular performer.
Brixton is a tough part of London and John Lydon was allegedly looking forward to performing for the rough and tumble punk crowd. However, Andrew leads us on a journey not of expectation but of expectoration - not one of idol worship but idol destroying. Though the band sounded good, Andrew shares how the old school punks down front were spitting on the band - a common practice in early 70s punk but one Lydon took exception to at this stage of the game. It prompted the punk legend to stop the show, call out the perpetrators in no uncertain terms and causing general violence and mayhem.
All the nasty bits were recorded for a live PiL album and you can hear Lydon tell the crowd that he'd been looking forward to the gig. However, from Andrew's perspective, and I believe a big chunk of the crowd's as well, Lydon was the bad guy for calling off the show and being nasty to the spitting crowd. It's a punk rock moment that's been memorialized in a live album and into the annals of rock stardom. Hear how Andrew believes it changed his attitude towards Johnny Rotten and the scene altogether.
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