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Lydon refused Gorillaz collaboration

By | Published on Thursday 15 July 2010

John Lydon has revealed that he knocked back the opportunity to appear on the latest Gorillaz album, ‘Plastic Beach’, suggesting those who did – including Bobby Womack, Lou Reed, Mark E Smith and Snoop Dogg – only did so for commercial, rather than artistic reasons.

Lydon told the Daily Star: “They gave me a bell but the answer was ‘no’. I really don’t want to be dabbling in other people’s gene pools. I’ve worked with many so-called famous people over the years but it’s never been for any deliberate financial motivation. If I did it wouldn’t be a business phone call followed by a management agreement and then for an album manufactured and marketed as to what the current popular trends were”.

He added that he was a bit annoyed that Public Image Ltd had not been asked to play at any of this year’s UK festivals, saying: “We haven’t had any offers. They have been quite negative, which has astounded us because PIL is the perfect festival band. You don’t want U2 – that’s a band that never should have existed, there’s no life experience in any of their songs”.

You can, however, catch PiL on tour in the UK from next week.



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