“It’s my entrance, my own creation, my grand finale, my goodbye”

“It’s my entrance, my own creation, my grand finale, my goodbye” May 24, 2018

Filed under: Trivia — justwilliam1959 @ 11:48 pm
Tags: Bob Casales, Devo, Front Line, John Lydon, Johnny Rotten, Mark Mothersbaugh, Richard Branson, Sex Pistols, Virgin Records

Shortly after the Sex Pistols played their last show, until the 90s reunion, in January 1978 John Lydon found himself in Jamaica, courtesy of Virgin Records. He was there to help source some reggae acts and tracks for Virgin’s Front Line operation. At this point Public Image Limited was still a little way off. Richard Branson had some other ideas for the former Mr Rotten. He flew Devo‘s Mark Mothersbaugh and Bob Casales out to Jamaica to persuade them to take John Lydon on as the next Devo lead vocalist. Obviously that didn’t happen but PIL did and personally I find that quite a fascinating what if from rocks rich history.