JANUARY 1978

14 - Sex Pistols play their last gig at The Winterland, San Francisco

17 - Sex Pistols split as a result of a meeting at the MiYako Hotel in San Francisco (tickets for the following shows are already being sold:  January 20 in Stockholm (Konserthuset) - January 21 in Lund (At Olympen) - January 24 in Hamburg (Markthalle)

18 - John Lydon arrives in New York to stay with photographer Joe Stevens for a week 

19 - New York Post and The Sun publish the split 

END OF JANUARY

Lydon, Sid Vicious and McLaren all back in London

FEBRUARY

3 - Lydon leaves for Jamaica for three weeks with Don Letts, Dennis Morris and Vivien Goldman in tow, as an adviser for Virgin Records who want to sign up Jamaican reggae artists

END OF FEBRUARY

After returning from Jamaica, Lydon flies with his mother to Los Angeles for a meeting with McLaren and Warner's vice director Bob Regehr to come to a agreement over the projected Sex Pistols film, but Lydon refuses to have anything to do with it anymore

MARCH / APRIL

Lydon auditions various musicians who replied to an anonymous advert in the music papers, but this comes to nothing, one of them is future PIL drummer Jim Walker

APRIL

16 - Lydon's first TV appearance after the Sex Pistols´ split, he is interviewed by Janet Street-Porter for The London Weekend Show on LWT. Keith Levene watches it and contacts Lydon. (NME 14.3.81:'Following the Pistols split, (Levene) saw Lydon on TV telling everybody that he had a new band together, but instinct told (him) that Johnny was lying and he phoned (him) to put plans for PIL into operation.') Lydon's friend Jah Wobble joins as a bassist immediately. Lydon and Levene hold further auditions for a drummer, Jim Walker turns up again and finally gets the job 

MAY

27 - NME publishes the first interview with the as yet unnamed band. Two original songs have already been written ('Public Image' - 'Religion') and two Sex Pistols' songs ('Belsen Was A Gas' - 'EMI') are also used in rehearsals

JULY

The band enter Advision Studios in London for two days to record their first single which is planned to be released on September 9th

22 -  'Sounds' publishes an interview with the band (which still has no name) by Caroline Coon 

29 - The band makes the front cover of 'Melody Maker' under the name Public Image - the Ltd has still  to be added

SEPTEMBER

Bassist Jah Wobble releases his first solo single ('Dreadlock Don't Deal With Wedlock' / 'Pthilius Pubis')

15 - The video for 'Public Image' is filmed

END OF SEPTEMBER

The band is invited to appear on ATV´s 'Revolver' show but only Levene turns up, they are replaced (ironically) by the Rich Kids

OCTOBER

13 - The release of PiL's first single ('Public Image' - 'The Cowboy Song') that peaks at number 9 in the UK charts

21 - The video of 'Public Image' is broadcast on 'Saturday Night People' on the London Weekend programme, the only TV appearance of the original line- up

28 - Lydon is interviewed on Radio One's 'Rock On' programme 

DECEMBER

8 - The release of PiL's first album 'Public Image - First Issue', recorded between July and November at various studios. Though largely negatively reviewed it peaks at number 22 in the album charts. Instead of being released in the USA by Warner's it is heavily imported by Virgin

12 - Theatre 140, Brussels, Belgium - the live debut of PiL, they play two sets this evening (the first set includes: Theme - Belsen Was A Gas -  Low Life - Religion - Attack - The Cowboy Song) The second set closes with: The Cowboy Song - Public Image (instrumental) A review of the show plus an interview with the band is published in the January 1979 edition of 'Muziekkrant OOR' magazine from Amsterdam.

14 - Olympia, Paris, France - Theme - Low Life - Annalisa - Religion - Public Image - Belsen Was A Gas - Attack - Problems - Public Image. The show is later released as the  bootleg - 'Recorded In  Paris When Nobody Was Looking' 

Shortly before Christmas Keith Levene and Jah Wobble, with vocal support by Don Letts and Wobble's friend Vince Bracken, release a four-track EP 'Steel Leg v. The Electric Dread' tracks: Steel leg - Stratetime and the wide man - Haile unlikely/Unlikely pub 

22 - NME has a four page interview with John (mainly) and the band

25 - Rainbow Theatre, London - Theme - Low Life - Attack - Belsen Was A Gas  - Religion - Annalisa - Public Image. The show is reviewed in 'Sounds' 

26 - Rainbow Theatre, London - Theme - Low Life - Belsen Was A Gas - Annalisa - Public Image - Religion - Attack - Public Image. The show is later released on various bootlegs - 'Extra Issue' - 'Nubes' - 'No Life Like Low Life' - 'Boxing Day')

1979
Sometime this year Lydon marries his girlfriend Nora Forster (born in Stuttgart, Germany)

JANUARY TO FEBRUARY 

The band is back in the studio to re-record and remix parts of their first album. The new version of  'Fodderstompf' (later issued on the back of the 'Death Disco'12") and a new song 'Home Is Where The Heart Is' (later issued on the back of the 'Flowers Of Romance' single) which most probably originates from these sessions. They also begin to work on another new song 'Death Disco', but due to conflicts with Jah Wobble, drummer Jim Walker leaves the band. His replacement Vivien Jackson apparently stays only for a couple of rehearsals.

FEBRUARY

16 - Arts Project Center, Dublin, Ireland is cancelled as the band fail to find a drummer in time 

23 - Kings Hall, Manchester - Theme - Annalisa - Low Life - Religion - Attack - Belsen Was A Gas I - Belsen Was A Gas II - Public Image - Annalisa: For this show the band hires a drummer, Dave Humphrey

MARCH 

The band enters Jah Studios in London to record an early version of 'Death Disco', possibly with Levene on drums. Perhaps it's this version of the song that later turns up on a bootleg cassette with PiL and Jah Wobble outtakes from the period.

APRIL 

Richard Dudanski joins PiL as a new drummer, they begin to work on a new album.

MAY

31 - Lydon appears on 'Juke Box Jury' on BBC 1 along with British actress Joan Collins

JUNE

18 - Russell's Club, Manchester - Chant - Death Disco - Memories - Public Image I - Public Image II - Public Image III - Annalisa - No Birds Do Sing - Albatross

29 - The release of a new single ('Death Disco' - 'No Birds Do Sing') and 12"single ('Death Disco' (half mix) - 'Death Disco' (mega mix, in fact a new instrumental version of 'Fodderstompf'), it peaks at number 20 in the UK charts on the same day Jah Wobble releases his second solo single ('Dan McArthur' - 'Dan McArthur II') 

JULY

2 - PiL appear live on TV for the first time, on Tyne Tee's 'Check It Out' show, including a live version of 'Chant' and an attempt to an interview

9 - The video for 'Death Disco' is filmed

PiL appear live on UK TV - the BBC's 'Top Of The Pops' with a version of 'Death Disco'

26 - Lydon is interviewed on Birmingham's BRMB radio station

AUGUST

10 - Lydon and Levene are interviewed on Manchester's Radio Merseyside 

SEPTEMBER

8 - Queen's Hall, Leeds - Chant - Annalisa - Memories - Low Life - Public Image - Attack - Death Disco - Another - No Birds Do Sing. The show is later issued as a bootleg LP 'Sci-Fi'. Drummer Richard Dudanski has enough and quits directly after the show 

John Lydon's brother, Jimmy Lydon's band 4 Be 2's release their first single ('One Of The Lads'/'Ummbaba') and 12"single ('One Of The Lads' (dub version) - 'One Of The Lads' - 'Ummbaba'). It is produced by John Lydon, with artwork by Dennis Morris

SEPTEMBER TO OCTOBER

The band search for a new drummer to complete work on their new album. Karl Burns of The Fall sits in for a few rehearsals, but Martin Atkins of The Hots gets the job in the end. He co-writes and records 'Bad Baby' with PiL, one of the  last songs for the album. Levene, accompanied by Ken Lockie, records 'Radio 4' on his own at Advision Studios.

OCTOBER

10 - The release of a new single - 'Memories' (re- mix) - 'Another', it peaks at no.60 in the UK charts

Release of Cowboys International's - 'The Original Sin' LP. Levene plays lead guitar on the track 'Wish'

NOVEMBER

 Jim Walker resurfaces as the drummer on The Pack's - 'King Of Kings' - 'Number 12' single 

 Lydon and Levene are interviewed on Radio 1's  'Rock On' show

23 - The release of a new PiL album -  'METAL BOX', recorded between April and October at various studios, including The Manor and Advision Studios. The album consists of three 12'singles in a tin can. It peaks at number 18 in the UK album charts. 

DECEMBER

17 - Broadcast of a John Peel Session by PiL, recorded at Maida Vale Studios, London and produced by Tony Wilson. Tracks: Chant - Poptones - Careering

JANUARY 1980

17 - Paris

18 - Paris

FEBRUARY

5 - PiL appear on The Old Grey Whistle Test (Poptones and Careering)

22 - Second Edition is released

APRIL

18 - Boston

20 - New York

26 - Philadelphia

28 - Detroit

? - Atlanta and Chicago

MAY

4 - Los Angeles

6 - Oakland Auditorium

10 - San Francisco

While still in PiL, Martin Atkins releases his first Brian Brain single - 'They've Got Me In A Bottle' b/w 'I Get Pain' - Secret Records, SHH-101, also the label's first release

JUNE

27 - Interviewed on 'The Tomorrow Show'

JULY

5 - NME cover with Keith Levene

OCTOBER

6 - John Lydon sentenced to 3 months imprisonment for assault. He was later found not guilty

NOVEMBER

14 - Paris Au Printemps is released

JANUARY 1981

26 - The premiere of a video film by Advanced Television production company, directed by Paul Dougherty, at The Kitchen, New York. It's in fact a a live video of a PiL gig from the previous year - Great Gildersleeves, New York, 22 April

FEBRUARY

13 - The PiL video is shown a second time at the Peppermint Lounge, New York

MARCH

27 - The release of a new single - 'Flowers Of Romance' single mix / 'Home Is Where The Heart Is' and 12" single - 'Flowers Of Romance' single mix, / Flowers Of Romance' single mix instrumental / 'Home Is Where The Heart Is'. It peaks at number 24 in the charts.

APRIL

10 - The release of a new album 'Flowers Of Romance', it peaks at number 11 in the album charts.

11 - PiL on Top Of The Pops, miming to 'Flowers of Romance'

14 - Interviews with PiL in 'NME' and 'Melody Maker'

MAY

Levene flies to New York and is interviewed by Lisa Yapp for the 'Dirt' show on cable TV. He brings Ed Caraballo into the PiL organization, the two arrange a concert at The Ritz, Lydon and Lee come over

MAY

15 - The Ritz, New York, USA - the drummer for this show is Sam Ulano. The gig is planned to be a video performance show with the band behind a large screen on which pre-taped films and the not-to-be-seen band itself are projected, intermitted with attempts at playing songs from the new album. The hard rock crowd doesn't get the joke, however, and smashes the place apart after 15 minutes. Parts of the show are later issued on a bootleg 7" single 'The Famous Riot Show'

16 - The Ritz, New York, USA - cancelled

18 - PiL hold a press conference on Monday at Warner Brothers in New York, calling the show a success. The press conference is filmed by Ed Caraballo. Lydon and Levene decide to stay in New York, Caraballo leaves the PiL organization after a few months after conflicts with Levene.

20 - 'Melody Maker' covers the Ritz show and the press conference

23 - 'Billboard' publishes an interview with Levene

MAY 29-JUNE 13

The Clash play seven nights at Bond's International Casino in New York, Keith Levene attends three of the gigs accompanied by actor Robert de Niro

AUGUST

 A new 12"single by John Lydon's brother Jimmy Lydon's band 4"BE 2" - 'All Of The Lads' / 'Jimmy Jones' / 'Bitch'. The two songs on the b-side are produced by John Lydon

The release of a single by Vivien Goldman - 'Launderette' / 'Private Armies', also on 12" - 'Launderette' / 'Private Armies' / 'P.A.Dub' - recorded the previous year with Lydon co-producing and Levene contributing guitar and bass.

OCTOBER

11 - The UK premiere of Paul Dougherty's PiL video at the ICA, London 

The release of Creation Rebel's 'Psychotic Jonkanoo' LP. Lydon contributes 'vocal harmony' to one track - 'Mother Don't Cry', although he's not audible 

NOVEMBER

The release of Singers And Players' 'War Of Words' LP. Levene plays guitar on one track - 'Devious Woman'

The release of Creation Rebel / New Age Steppers' 'Threat To Creation' LP. Levene plays guitar on the track 'Last Sane Dream', which is in fact a dub version of 'Devious Woman' with Levene's guitar more prominent

WINTER

PiL are dropped from their American label Warner Brothers Records for being 'unproductive money wasters'

JANUARY 1982 

29 - 'Sounds' report that PIL have disintegrated after unsuccessful attempts to record new material with producers Adam Kidron and Ken Lockie. They also have been dropped by their American label Warner Brothers but took with them an advance of 60.000 dollars

FEBRUARY

 6 -  PIL deny in the 'New Musical Express' that they have split up, but state that in fact Ken  Lockie has joined as a keyboard player 

SPRING

Levene attends a Brian Brain gig at the Mudd Club in New York and invites drummer Martin Atkins to rejoin the band. PiL start to work on a new album at South Park Studios in Manhattan. Levene tries to get Bill Laswell as a bassist but they can't afford him. Lydon is offered 10.000 pounds for an acting role in a new film by Italian director Roberto Faenza, he accepts

MAY

Shooting for the film begins in New York

JUNE - JULY

Further shootings for the film in Rome, Lydon is accompanied by Jeannette Lee. During this time Levene writes 'The Order Of Death', humming through the phone with Lydon

END of JULY

After the film is finished, Lydon and Lee spend a few days in London before Lydon returns to New York. Jeannette Lee decides to stay in London and leaves PiL in effect

AUGUST

7 - 'New Musical Express' publish an interview with John Lydon, he announces that PiL is back as a working unit

It is announced in the music press that Ken Lockie has left PiL again

 Brian Brain's bassist Pete Jones joins PiL in  New York and the studio version of 'Mad Max' is recorded. Atkins and Jones push Ken Lockie out of the band, PiL start to rehearse for live shows and continue recording at South Park Studios.

SEPTEMBER

28 - Roseland Ballroom, New York - The live debut of the new line-up, posters stating 'You are now entering a Commercial Zone' are at the entrance, the band are joined by actor Harvey Keitel backstage

OCTOBER

 9 -  The Channel, Boston
10 -  Granada Theater, Chicago
16 - The Masonic Temple Concert Hall, Toronto
17 - Le Spectrum, Montreal
23 - Granada Theater, Chicago
25 - First Avenue Theater, Minneapolis
30 - City Gardens, Trenton, NJ
31 - Ritchie Coliseum, College Park

EARLY NOVEMBER

PiL hold a press conference at Le Dome in Los Angeles, they announce the release of a new single 'Blue Water' and an album 'You Are Now Entering A Commercial Zone'. They also state that they will release it on a new label 'Public Enterprise Productions' and they have founded another company called 'Multi Image Corporation' to handle further multi- media activities of the group. Although PIL negotiate with Stiff Records USA on a custom label deal and "Public Enterprise Productions" hold a bureau  on Sunset Boulevard, Los Angeles, where tickets for the upcoming Pasadena show can be mail-ordered, the new label never comes off the ground. 

PiL announce at their press conference at Le Dome the foundation of two new organizations of PiL:

Public Enterprise Production (PEP)
 Multi-Image Corporation (MIC)

PEP - their own label (actually PiL negotiate with record company, Stiff America, about a custom label deal after they were fired by Warner Bros., but this never happens because Stiff fails to succeed in the USA and PiL break up then. They have a bureau in L.A.(8033 Sunset Boulevard #400, Los Angeles, CA 90046) from where tickets for at least the Pasadena show (7.11.)can be mail-ordered)

MIC

MIC which is suppo sed to handle other 'activities' (Levene stuck to it after he left PiL. Multi-Image appears on the sleeves of his 1987 'Back Too Black' EP and his 1989 'Violent Opposition' LP, although nobody seems to know what it actually was)

The band uses 'Blue water' as an intro tape for their November/December shows

5 -  The Galleria, San Francisco 
7 - Convention Center, Pasadena
 8 - Convention Center, Pasadena - the gig is filmed by a member of the audience
10 - Elite Club, San Francisco
 12 - Showbox Theater, Seattle
 13 - Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles

21 - Keith Levene marries his long-standing girlfriend Lori Montana, they later have a son Kirk

DECEMBER

11 - Agora Ballroom, Atlanta
 31 - Club Network, Long Beach

OCTOBER 1983

28 - PiL appear on UK TV - Channel 4's The Tube, performing This Is Not A Love Song, Anarchy In The UK and Flowers Of Romance.

NOVEMBER

The first release of 'Commercial Zone' with the long version of 'Bad Night', on Levene's own 'PiL Records, Inc.' (plain white sleeve), distributed by mail order only in small quantities (the second edition 'Commercial Zone-Limited Edition' comes out in August 19 84 under a proper distribution deal with Important Records Distributions, Inc., with a proper sleeve)

AUGUST 1985

 Semi-official release of PiL's version of  'Anarchy in the U.K.' from their The Tube appearance (28.10.83) on a Sex Pistols LP 'Live Worldwide' (Konnexion Records, Belgium)

AUTUMN / FALL

 'Album' is recorded in New York at Power Station, Quad Recording Studios and Electric Lady Studios. The finished tracks are then presented to Lydon who adds his vocals at RPM Studios in three days   ('the whole thing with Ginger came out of John Lydon suggesting playfully that he wanted Ginger to be the drummer in PiL and I thought that was a great idea, so I was stupid enough to go to the north of Italy and find Ginger.' Bill Laswell, 1999 - Producer of 'Album')

FEBRUARY 1986

 PiL perform UK TV - BBC's  Top Of The Pops, miming to 'Rise'

1987

 'Happy?' was at first intended to be a double album with 'Renovations' as the second disc, but this plan is scrapped by Virgin Records (I got that from an edition of German 'SPEX' magazine, which mentions that 'PiL are in the  studio now, recording their next LP which will be a double, the second disc will consist of new versions of old PiL songs')

SEPTEMBER 1987

9 - The correct date of John Lydon on UK TV - ITV´s 'Hold Tight' performing the LP version of 'Seattle'

1988

Omnibus Press publish a book 'Johnny Rotten In His Own Words' by Dave Thomas, it consists of a variety of interview quotes of Lydon from 1976-86

MARCH

 1-31  PiL play 22 big stadium dates in the USA as support for INXS on their 'Kick' world tour, the offer for it came rather short-term

APRIL

2 -  Perkins Palace, Pasadena
? - Bogarts, Cincinnati
Lydon and friend Dennis Morris on ITV´s 'Night Network' show, commentating current music videos 

MAY

Keith Levene releases another 12"EP called 'Keith Levene's Violent Opposition'

 In the summer PiL fly over to New York at the insistence of Virgin Records to record '9' together with Bill Laswell, two weeks are already booked and paid, but after two days Laswell says the musicians are useless, Lydon should fire the band and work with Laswell´s bunch of studio musicians instead. Lydon refuses, they stay in New York and record demos with Jason Corsaro (sound engineer on 'Album') and Scientist (famous reggae producer), but Virgin want some more hip producers, so PiL return to England again to record '9' there. This whole extravaganza costs PiL UK£ 80,000 of their advances, they do two festivals to get some money in, but Edmunds has to leave before the actual recordings start

AUGUST

24 -  Tavastia, Klubi, Helsinki, Finland

26 - Lauluvaljak, Tallinn, Estonia, USSR - the first day of 'Rock Summer Festival' held at the massive song festival ground outside Tallinn. Lu Edmonds: 'It was a very strange venue, a bizarre coral, concrete thing where a choir of 5000 would play to 120.000. It was so fucking loud on stage, I felt sick. It was a big crowd as well, there was 100.000 people out there.' PiL play along with Big Country and several Russian bands

31 - BBC-2's 'That Was Then...This Is Now' broadcast a half-hour profile of John Lydon

SEPTEMBER

4 - Pedion Tou Areos, Athens, Greece - the first day of a planned 'Rock Festival '88'. Two Greek acts and The Triffids open for headliners PiL, but already during The Triffids', set the audience starts to riot. Graham Lee of The Triffids remembers that PiL 'took one look at the farcical security arrangements and would not play.' The crowd sets fire to the stage and the riots go on through the whole night with many people injured

The release of a 3"CD single 'If Six Was 9' by Keith Levene

17 - 'Melody Maker' features the Estonian gig and the Athens riot

24 - 'Melody Maker' features part two of their Estonia article

NOVEMBER

3 - Lydon interviewed on 'Rocking in the UK' TV programme

John Lydon is interviewed in CUT magazine

DECEMBER

After it has become clear that Lu Edmonds isn't able to play with PiL anymore, because of a serious tinnitus he developed after the Estonia gig, the band start to record the new album without him

APRIL  1989

The release of 'Slaves Of New York - Original Soundtrack', featuring the single edit of 'Warrior'

FEBRUARY 1990

 9 - Lydon is interviewed on TV on Channel 4's 'The Jonathan Ross Show'

AUGUST

John Lydon is interviewed in Melody Maker magazine

SEPTEMBER
 1 - Former PiL members Keith Levene and Jah Wobble together on one stage after ten years, they play a gig with Gary Clail And On-U Sound System at the Town And Country Club, London

24 - The release of a new single - 'Don't Ask Me' / 'Warrior' (Dave Dorrell & CJ MacKintosh remix) ,'Rules And Regulations' - It peaks at number 22 in the UK charts. The track has been recorded earlier in the year at Zeitgeist Studios, Los Angeles, with producer Tony Berg. It is unknown who plays drums on it

OCTOBER

9 - The release of 'The Greatest Hits . . So Far'. It peaks at number 20 in the UK album charts, but Lydon claims it could have done better because Virgin didn't promote it too well and haven't pressed enough copies. 

25 - 'Second Edition' is re-released on  CD, and a limited edition of 'Metal Box' on CD in a small tin can

30 - The release of Edie Brickell and New Bohemians' 'Ghost Of A Dog' album, which features Lydon on backing vocals on the track 'Strings Of Love', recorded earlier this year with producer Tony Berg at Zeitgeist Studios, Los Angeles

NOVEMBER
6 - Lydon is interviewed for KROQ Radio's 'K- Rock' show in Pasadena, he says he hopes that the recording of a new studio album should begin in January in England, but there are 'squabblings' with Virgin about who will be the producer 

DECEMBER

12 - Lydon is interviewed on BBC2's 'Rapido' TV show 

13 - Lydon is interviewed on Channel 4's 'The Word' show. He complains that Virgin have cancelled a planned second single from 'The Greatest Hits, So Far' (the new version of 'Rise') and they sabotage his band.

JANUARY 1991
 Lydon is interviewed for "Interview Magazine" 
Nippon Columbia release a 5 CD-box set (containing the albums 'Public Image - First Issue', 'Second Edition', 'Paris Au Printemps', 'Flowers Of Romance', and 'Album' and a 5"CD single of 'Public Image / The Cowboy Song', a book called 'Donde Estas Tu Public Image Ltd' by one David Carballal is released in Spain

 JULY

7- The release of 'Point Break - Original Soundtrack', featuring a new PiL song 'Criminal' (recorded at Great Linford Studios, Milton Keynes, UK and is produced by James Barton) 

AUTUMN

 The trio of Lydon, McGeoch and Dias enter Eldorado Studios in Los Angeles with producer Dave Jerden to finally record a new album. Ted Chau is invited to play but he's too busy, so two session musicians from the LA area are hired (Gregg Arreguin on guitar and Curt Bisquera on drums)

JANUARY 1992

To get the band on the road, Lydon, McGeoch and Dias rehire Ted Chau (guitar and keyboards) and Mike Joyce (drums), who has just returned from New York where he cut demos with the Buzzcocks up to Christmas

FEBRUARY 

2 - Iguanas, Tijuana, Mexico - PiL give a warm-up concert and shoot the video for the next single 'Cruel'. They return to London after this to continue rehearsing at Easy Hire Rehearsal Studios in Islington

10 - The release of a new CD single - 'Cruel' / 'Love Hope' / 'Rise' (live in New York 16 July 89),'Home' (live in New York 16 July 89) - and 10"single - 'Cruel' / 'Love Hope' / 'Happy' (live in New York 16 July 89) It peaks at number 49 in the UK charts

14 - PiL appear live on TV on Channel 4's 'The Word' show. Lydon (visibly drunk) is interviewed, the band play 'Cruel' and 'Public Image', the latter is not broadcasted until an end of season special airing

24 - The release of a new album 'That What Is Not', recorded the previous year at Eldorado Studios in Los Angeles, produced by Dave Jerden. It peaks at number 46 in the UK album charts 

25 -  PiL live on Mark Goodier's 'The Evening Session' show (BBC Radio One), produced by Ted de Bono. Cruel, Acid Drops, Love Hope and Think Tank are performed 

MARCH

Lydon makes the front cover of 'Q' magazine, it contains a double sided advert for Schlitz beer, featuring Lydon being quoted 'If anyone knows how to put away Schlitz,  I do!'

MARCH 13-APRIL 24

 'MTV 120 Minutes Tour', - 32 dates in the USA and Canada together with BAD II, Blind Melon and Live. They also appear live on TV on NBC's 'The Dennis Miller Show' with a version of 'Covered' 

20 - Richard Branson sells his Virgin Music Group to Thorn EMI for 560 million pounds, PiL add 'EMI' to their live set for their upcoming UK shows

MAY

The release of a remix of 'Criminal' with magazine / CD -  'Volume Three'. The track was remixed by Dave Jerden at Eldorado Studios, Los Angeles, probably during the recording of 'That What Is Not'

2 - Town & Country Club, Kentish Town, London
3 - Town & Country Club, Kentish Town, London
5 - Aston Villa Leisure Center, Birmingham
6 -  The Academy, Manchester
7- Barrowlands, Glasgow
9 - Newcastle is cancelled
10 - Sheffield is cancelled

JUNE

6 - Tornavansaari, Seinajoki, Finland - 'Provinssirock Festival'

JULY

4 - Alton Towers amusement park in Staffordshire

The new owners of Virgin drop PiL from the label, the planned second single 'Covered' is cancelled and bassist Alan Dias leaves the band. PiL, in effect reduced to the duo of Lydon and McGeoch, recruit bassist Russell Webb as a replacement.

24 - The tabloids in the UK report that the Sex Pistols are to reform, to tie in with the planned release of a new compilation 'Kiss This'

AUGUST

9 - Lydon joins Ian Dury on stage during the 'Madstock' festival at Finsbury Park, London

28 -  Reading Festival

SEPTEMBER

2 - The Palace, Sao Paolo, Brazil - Lydon walks off after just 15 minutes because of constant spitting...
4 -  Obras Sanitarias, Buenos Aires, Argentina - the show has to be stopped for ten minutes because a firework is thrown on stage
5 -  Obras Sanitarias, Buenos Aires, Argentina
9 - Avalon Ballroom, Boston, USA
10 - Rocky Point Amusement Park, Warwick, USA
11 - Trocader, Philadelphia, USA
13 - The Ritz, New York, USA
15 - Spectrum, Montreal, Canada
17 - Concert Hall, Toronto, Canada
18 - The Icon, Buffalo, USA - the last PiL concert, so far...

OCTOBER

10 - Virgin Records release the Sex Pistols´ 'Anarchy in the UK' as a single, it peaks at number 33 in the UK charts

17 - Virgin Records release a Sex Pistols compilation 'Kiss This', which reaches no.10 in the UK album charts. The booklet contains comments by John Lydon as well as the other surviving band members, the record is actively promoted by Lydon. Work on his autobiography starts

MARCH 1993
 Lydon signs a one-album solo deal with Eastwest Records, a division of Atlantic Records. He begins to build a 32-track studio in his Los Angeles home ("Rotten Studios") from the advances and starts to work on solo material. Some of it he puts out anonymously on white label 12"singles,one of these  tracks is broadcasted early in 2000 on his "Rotten Radio" show on eyada.com

MAY

Via mutual friend John Gray Lydon meets dance-act Leftfield, a collaboration is suggested

AUGUST

Lydon records the vocals to 'Open Up' in Leftfield's Rollover Studios,  London. The track is offered to Eastwest Records, but they aren't interested

NOVEMBER

 17 - The single 'Open Up' by Leftfield Lydon is released, it reaches no.13 in the UK charts, although the video is banned from ITV´s 'The Chart Show'

MARCH 1994

 17 -  Lydon's autobiography 'Rotten - No Irish No Blacks No Dogs' is released

APRIL 

Jah Wobble's single 'Becoming More Like God" finds itself in the charts, peaking at no.36

MAY 

Jah Wobble's 'Take Me To God' album peaks at no.13

JUNE 

Jah Wobble's single 'The Sun Does Rise' peaks at no.41 in the charts. 

Sometime in this year Lydon buys himself out of his contract with Eastwest Records

DECEMBER

 Lydon meets Steve Jones and Glen Matlock in Los Angeles

APRIL 1995

 15 - 'Music News Of The World' report that Lydon has met ex-MC5 guitarist Wayne Kramer at a party in Los Angeles, who offers him to play guitar on his forthcoming solo album

SEPTEMBER

 2 - Lydon is interviewed for 'Ben Is Dead' magazine, he says he's 'gotten rather bored with the way PiL's been going the last couple of years'. He also denies any rumors about a Sex Pistols reunion

AUTUMN OR WINTER 

Lydon re-signs to Virgin Records, after a chance meeting with EMI's President Ken Berry, on a transatlantic Virgin Airways flight

OCTOBER 

2 - Lydon starts a series of radio appearances called 'Rotten Day', it runs till January 1997

 3 - The release of Leftfield's 'Leftism' album, it contains a version of "Open up"

DECEMBER

 The Sex Pistols' finally decide to reform for a final farewell tour, arrangements are made via telephone. Lydon says that he needs the money to fund his nearly completed solo album

MARCH 1996
 It is reported that Lydon's solo album is finished, but the release is postponed because of Lydon's Sex Pistols commitments

18 - The Sex Pistols announce their farewell tour at a press conference inside London's 100 Club

JUNE 21 - DECEMBER 7 

Sex Pistols´ 'Filthy Lucre' tour, seventy-two dates in Europe, North America, South  America, Australia, New Zealand and Japan

FEBRUARY 1997
 1 - The release of an album 'Einstein Was A Bullfighter' by Doc Tahri, the band of former PiL bassist Bret Helm. It features a certain 'Logan' on backing vocals on the track 'Arrest This', it's probably John Lydon in disguise.

FEBRUARY

 'Q' magazine quote John McGeoch in its 'Where Are They Now' section that he's 'still officially in PiL'

MARCH 

20 - Lydon's solo album 'Psycho's Path' is released in Japan with different versions of 'Another Way' and 'Armies' and a different mix of 'Stump' 

MAY

 23 -  Lydon appears on 'The Late Show' hosted by Tom Snyder, this time they get along fine 

JUNE

The first release of Jah Wobble's 30 Hertz Records, his own label he founded earlier this year

A John Lydon solo tour of North America and Japan is announced, 32 dates altogether between 3 August and 30 September

JULY

1 - 'Psycho's Path' released in UK and USA, with various remixes added as bonus tracks

John Lydon is interviewed by SELECT, he says 'I will be opening PiL up again, probably next year'

John Lydon is interviewed in NME magazine

Former PiL bassist Pete Jones is interviewed for 'Spunk Sister' internet magazine

21 - The release of 'Sun' as a single, it peaks at no.42 in the UK charts

AUGUST

 3 - After disputes with the drummer, the first show of Lydon's solo tour is cancelled, and the remainder of the tour, because Lydon accuses Virgin Re- cords of non-promotion, lack of interest and insufficient financial backing

13 - Lydon plays a single show in his hometown of Los Angeles

SEPTEMBER

 Lydon flies over to Japan to absolve his live shows over there, he hopes to get more support by Nippon Columbia Records 

25 - Lydon plays Club Citta in Kawasaki, but  only about 100 people show up

26 -  Lydon plays Tokyo, the other two Japan gigs are cancelled

OCTOBER

 7 - It is announced to the music press that John Lydon has left Virgin Records

APRIL 1998

John Lydon is interviewed in Loaded magazine

AUGUST

12 -  Shooting of a trailer for Lydon's upcoming TV show 'Rotten TV' on VH-1 begins

SEPTEMBER

25 - Lydon and John McGeoch are interviewed on BBC2's 'Rock Family Trees', this time about Siouxsie and The Banshees

OCTOBER

 An unofficial white label 12"single called 'Love Song 1998 remix' appears in the shops, credited to John Lydon / PiL. Lydon says he has nothing to do with it but likes it. 

MARCH 1999
 1 - The release of 'Plastic Box', a 4 CD-compilation of PiL's entire career. In the liner notes, Lydon says 'this collection represents a comma not a full stop, I fully intend to carry on with PiL, and there will be more in the future'

12 - John Lydon is interviewed in The Times

JUNE

8 - 'Plastic Box' released in the US

AUGUST

 The release of 'Josh's Blair Witch Mix" soundtrack with PiL's 'The Order Of Death' on it, a remix sneaks out on a promo 5"CD single

25 - Lydon interviewed for The Plain Dealer in Cleveland, he says 'PiL is in my mind. It is very difficult to raise the money to finance it now'

DECEMBER

4 -  Lydon start 'Rotten Radio' on eyada.com, a weekly show live from his LA home. He states that he has no current plans to put PiL back together, but would like to work with Lu Edmonds again. He considers to release any new material via the internet

JANUARY 2000

23 - First episode of 'Rotten TV' is aired

FEBRUARY

28 - John Lydon appears on Politically Incorrect

MARCH

12 - John Lydon is interviewed in The New York Times

APRIL

6 - Second episode of 'Rotten TV' is aired

10 - John Lydon appears on Politically Incorrect

25 - The release of the 'One' - EP by The Damage Manual, featuring Jah Wobble and Martin Atkins. This project dates back to early 1999 when the two decided to work together again, with Killing Joke's Geordie Walker on guitar. Geordie and Wobble suggest John Lydon as a singer, Atkins thinks this is a bad idea, but 'I called John up and told him what was going on and sent him a tape and didn't hear back.'  So Chris Connelly gets the job instead

MAY

8 - Keith Levene returns to the public, he appears as a guest at South East Essex College in Southend on Music Industry Day ('Rock Goes To College') along with Faithless's guitarist Dave Randall. With the help of multimedia lecturer Mike Sheehan he puts up his own website missingchannel.com later in the year.

JUNE

Former PiL bassist Pete Jones releases his solo album 'Twisted' (mail-order only) It contains a cover of 'Blue Water' and a few Lydon samples

5-11 - The Damage Manual play a short tour of seven dates in England, the set includes versions of 'Low Life', 'Poptones' and 'Careering'. A planned US tour in August is cancelled.

SEPTEMBER

5 - 'The Damage Manual' album is released

OCTOBER

12 - John Lydon appears on Politically Incorrect

14 - A press release from 30 Hertz Records states that Wobble has left The Damage Manual 'several weeks ago' and returned to solo work

27 - The Third and last episode of 'Rotten TV' aired

DECEMBER

Former PiL bassist Pete Jones releases a new track 'It's fucking Christmas' via his website

FEBRUARY 2001

 'Perfect Sound Forever' online music magazine publishes the first part of its Keith Levene interview series by Jason Gross, started in April the previous year. You can access the interview here [Levene Interview]

MARCH

23 - John Lydon appears on Politically Incorrect

APRIL

The release of part 2 of the Keith Levene interview series for 'Perfect Sound Forever'

JUNE

30 - Lydon is guest on an internet chat for Film Four. He again states that any new material will definitely be released via the internet

JULY

The release of part 3 of the Keith Levene interview series for 'Perfect Sound Forever'

AUGUST

9 - John Lydon appears on Politically Incorrect

OCTOBER

29 - John Lydon appears the the Q Awards - and receives the Inspiration award

NOVEMBER

2 - John Lydon appears as a guest on the Johnathon Ross show

 Thanks to Karsten

More soon!