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Public Image Ltd. Announce New Album, Tour

Fans mourning their lost chance to see John Lydon in Johnny Rotten’s canceled Jesus Christ Superstar, take heart: the Sex Pistols and Public Image Ltd. frontman has announced that the latter will release their tenth studio LP this fall. What the World Needs Now…, the follow-up to 2012’s This is PiL (both of which were recorded at Steve Winwood’s Wincraft Studios), arrives September 4 and will be followed by a U.K., European, and North American tour. The first single, “Double Trouble,” arrives August 21 as a ten-inch vinyl single backed by “Bettie Page” and non-album extra “Turkey Tits.”

All Lydon would say about the new album is, “Buy now while stocks last.” Watch a video of them performing “Public Image” and find the album tracklist below.

What The World Needs Now… track list:
1. “Double Trouble”
2. “Know Now”
3. “Bettie Page”
4. “C’est La Vie”
5. “Spice of Choice”
6. “The One”
7. “Big Blue Sky”
8. “Whole Life Time”
9. “I’m Not Satisfied”
10. “Corporate”
11. “Shoom”