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Public Image Ltd

Public Image

1978 · via Public Image Ltd

Public Image Ltd’s 1978 recording of “Public Image” is the earliest release on file. Jah Wobble, Keith Levene, John Lydon and Jim Walker of Public Image Ltd are credited as its writers. Also recorded by Ministry (released 1992), Alphabeat (released 2008) and Feeder (released 2008), among 75 recordings of this work on MusicBrainz.

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All four of them share the credit on this one, and the song refused to stay home: Ministry cut it in 1992, in a line of takers running from NoMeansNo to Menswear. Start with PiL's own, then hear what Ministry made of it.

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Credited writers: Jah Wobble, Keith Levene, John Lydon and Jim Walker.

Earliest release on file: this one, 1978.

Other recordings on file · first release year

75 recordings of this work on MusicBrainz.

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John Lydon, Keith Levene, Jah Wobble and Jim Walker share the credit on PiL's "Public Image." Which of these bands later recorded its own take on it?Ministry
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