Word: lydon
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Public Image Ltd.: Second Edition (Island/Warner Bros.). The weather forecast on the far frontiers of rock is a little cold and spooky, if this record is any indication. Alternately rigorous and unhinged, steam-heated and strangulated, Second Edition is the collective work of the band John Lydon (a.k.a. Johnny Rotten) formed when he broke with the Sex Pistols. The Pistols' music was like a mugging; Public Image's is like a football match in purgatory. Using repeated chords, shattered rhythms and lyrics that sound like electrocuted William Burroughs ("Spreading tales/ Like coffin nails/ Is this living"), Public Image...
...Reed: Growing Up in Public (Arista). Wherever Lydon and all other assorted punks, new wavers and no wavers may have come from, no matter where they are all headed, Lou Reed has already been there. Public Image owes a debt to the saber-toothed experiments of Reed's late '60s band, the Velvet Underground, and Reed still remains several furlongs ahead of anyone in laying down jagged fragments of autobiography that cut like pieces of a shattered mirror. Growing Up in Public is a collection of primal assaults and tentative love songs that all together are like...
Christopher Lydon, a newscaster for WGBH-TV, proposed the conference's most startling theory when he said that President Carter knew that militants would occupy the American embassy in Tehran if he admitted the deposed Shah to the United States for medical treatment. Lydon said Carter may have planned beforehand to use the hostage issue as a means of toughening his image for the re-election campaign...
...None of Lydon's fellow participants supported his theory...
...Lydon also said that the combination of heavy media coverage and the candidates' attempts to project attractive, but non-specific images has created "a new-model candidate...