The Ultimate Music Guide magazine - John Lydon cover (July 2015)

Ultimate Music Guide: The Sex Pistols
New unread condition
120 pages

SEX PISTOLS: ARCHIVE 1976 - As news of the Sex Pistols begins to spread, hip young Tony Parsons proposes a punk manifesto
4 pages

SEX PISTOLS: ARCHIVE 1977 - Leaving the chaos of London, in Amsterdam the Pistols talk Bill Grundy, EMI and spitting
6 pages

SEX PISTOLS: ARCHIVE 1977 - A clash with the police and a visit to the Pistols' new record label, Virgin
7 pages

SEX PISTOLS: ARCHIVE 1977 - The "nice friendly chappies" with a "beastly side" move on to Stockholm...
8 pages

SEX PISTOLS: ALBUM REVIEW - Never Mind The Bollocks
The album that gave the Pistols a place in history
4 pages

SEX PISTOLS: ARCHIVE 1977 - The Sex Pistols return to the British stage, in the unlikely environs of Uxbridge. The Melody Maker's resident sceptic, Chris Welch, is dispatched into the melee, mixes it with the punks, and comes back with a wry and philosophical take on a rock phenomenon.
4 pages

SEX PISTOLS: ARCHIVE 1978 - January 1978. McLaren sends the Pistols off on a provocative and doomed tour of the American South. Rotten is ill and paranoid, believing that the FBI are on his trail. Vicious is deranged. Michael Watts is along for one last ride. "I like the idea that the band really hate each other," claims Malcolm McLaren - a strategy he may live to regret, given that by the end of the tour the band will have fallen apart
8 pages

PUBLIC IMAGE LTD: ARCHIVE 1978 - What remains of the Sex Pistols are cavorting with Ronnie Biggs in Rio. Their singer, however, is back at home in London with a new name, a new, as-yet unnamed, band - and no money. Neil Spencer gets a preview of what will soon be known as Public Image Limited. "Rock," announces the bassist, one Jah Wobble, "is obsolete..."
4 pages

PUBLIC IMAGE LTD: ALBUM REVIEW - First Issue
2 pages

PUBLIC IMAGE LTD: ARCHIVE 1979 - February 1979: Sid is Dead. The Great Rock'n'Roll Swindle is being edited, and Malcolm McLaren is adjusting to an enduringly messy life after the Pistols. Michael Watts tries to make sense of all the court proceedings and counter-claims, talks with McLaren, Richard Branson and other key players, and discovers the great love of Sid Vicious' life: Action Men!
4 pages

SEX PISTOLS: ALBUM REVIEW - The Great Rock'n'Roll Swindle
4 pages

PUBLIC IMAGE LTD: ALBUM REVIEW - Metal Box
2 pages

PUBLIC IMAGE LTD: ARCHIVE 1981 - "Get rid of that music, there is life beyond," says John Lydon, introducing the Flowers Of Romance and the latest, magnificently unstable, phase of PiL. Gavin Martin braves the oppressive streets of London to hear Lydon and co's latest company report; a righteous jeremiad against the music business, Jah Wobble and poor-quality record players...
6 pages

PUBLIC IMAGE LTD: ALBUM REVIEW
The Flowers Of Romance - 2 pages
Commercial Zone - 2 pages
This Is What You Want... This Is What You Get - 2 pages

PUBLIC IMAGE LTD: ARCHIVE 1986 - Back from America, John Lydon passes judgement on his homeland. Anarchy is "a mindgame for the middle classes".
5 pages

PUBLIC IMAGE LTD: ALBUM REVIEW
Happy? - 2 pages
That What Is Not - 2 pages

SEX PISTOLS: ARCHIVE 1996 - Ahead of the Pistols' 1996 comeback tour, a sozzled Johnny Rotten is in LA spoiling for a fight with the NME
6 pages

JOHN LYDON: ALBUM REVIEW - Psycho's Path2 pages

SEX PISTOLS: ARCHIVE 2006 - Malcolm McLaren ponders his own epitaph and tackles other enquiries from Uncut readers and sundry celebrities
4 pages

JOHN LYDON: ARCHIVE 2007 - As the Sex Pistols reuniteonce again in 2007, Uncut's John Lewis conducts a surprising audience with John Lydon. Featuring: songs about "the illegal exportation of parrots from South America" for Kate Bush! The truth about McLaren's football career! Unexpected friendships with Pink Floyd! And the secrets of a vast, Rotten record collection... "Mozart. Always Mozart!"
4 pages