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42. Onstage in 1983, with neon halo for the song, ‘Religion’. In them days, it created quite a terrifying image. Now people would probably think
it looks more akin to a toilet seat.

43. Press conference for
Order Of Death
, and a European tour, Royal Lancaster Hotel, 26 October 1983. I was always happy doing press conferences,
because it meant free beer, I could smoke as much as I liked, and everyone was paying attention. So, yes - happy!

44. A very interesting photo from 1985: a fake backdrop, a bit of a net, and me sitting there. I love the cheesy fakeness of it.

45. With Nora, at home in London. I recognize our old sofa that we’re sitting on, and the Russian posters. Every wall had a crack on it, and rather
than plaster it, which never occurred to us, I’d stick a poster up.

46. An assortment of PiL sleeves, painted by yours truly, to give you a vague idea of what my style is. It’s a collection of personalities given the
Johnny Lydon absurdist treatment.

47. PiL in 1986:
(l-r)
John McGeoch, Bruce Smith, me, Allan Dias, Lu Edmonds. It really felt like a band. We were quite nutty and out there. Every
single one of us would be up to no good.

48. On stage in Toronto, Massey Hall, 23 November 1987. Our stage set in homage to Friedensreich Hundertwasser. It had slides, staircases, turrets - one big
adventure playground. On my head, I’m wearing a lobster and two squid. Lu, in the background, looks like a palm tree.

49. With Allan Dias onstage in front of 125,000 people at Rock Summer Festival, Tallinn, Estonia, 26 August 1988. You could feel the heat of that many
people’s breath. It’s like being close to a fireplace.

50. PiL in 1987. Our tasteful publicity shot from 1987. There’s a collection of outfits, eh?

51. The Sex Pistols live in Finsbury Park, 23 June 1996. I liked the idea of bursting out through the newspaper print at the start of the gig. It
wasn’t always physically possible, because you try and transport that much rolled-up newspaper. That’s a lot of newspaper to be dragging around on a crew bus.

52. So you can see my lovely ‘donkey jacket’ from the Finsbury Park gig. I sing like a donkey, I’m wearing a jacket – it’s a
donkey’s jacket. It’s by a Japanese designer, Issey Miyaki. I never met him, but I love his stuff.

53. Me dressed as Pinocchio. I wore that outfit onstage in really nutty places, like parts of Yugoslavia. If you go on looking like a cartoon ludicrousness,
it challenges an audience. ‘Hard’ comes in many shapes and sizes.

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