{"id":658147,"date":"2026-10-27T02:14:15","date_gmt":"2026-10-27T02:14:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/658147\/"},"modified":"2026-10-27T02:14:15","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T02:14:15","slug":"john-lydon-announces-photographic-memoir-titled-archive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/658147\/","title":{"rendered":"John Lydon Announces Photographic Memoir Titled Archive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/consequence.net\/artist\/john-lydon\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">John Lydon<\/a> (aka Johnny Rotten) has announced a photographic memoir titled Archive, marking the 50th anniversary of his legendary punk band <a href=\"https:\/\/consequence.net\/artist\/sex-pistols\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Sex Pistols<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/vivid-seats.pxf.io\/c\/1882189\/952533\/12730?subId1=pil%2Alydon-archive-button&amp;subId2=&amp;subId3=&amp;sharedid=&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.vividseats.com%2Fpil-tickets%2Fperformer%2F141723\" class=\"button button-ticket\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Get Public Image Ltd. Tickets Here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The book, which is available for pre-order in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.awaywithmedia.com\/buy-books\/entertainment\/john-lydon-archive\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Luxe<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.awaywithmedia.com\/buy-books\/entertainment\/john-lydon-archive-superluxe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Superluxe<\/a> editions, is set for release in November.<\/p>\n<p>Archive serves to document Lydon\u2019s time both as a member of Sex Pistols as well as his work as frontman of <a href=\"https:\/\/consequence.net\/artist\/public-image-ltd\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Public Image Ltd<\/a>. It also features tributes to his late wife Nora Forster and his best friend and manager John Rambo Stevens, both of whom have passed.<\/p>\n<p>Related Video<\/p>\n<p>Lydon said of the book, \u201cThis isn\u2019t a nostalgia trip. It\u2019s a record of real life\u2014the good, the chaos, the quiet moments, and the people who stood by me through it all. Looking back over 50 years, it was time to open up the personal collection and set the story straight.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cLuxe\u201d edition features the 200+ page coffee table book in a slipcase and is signed by Lydon. The \u201cSuperluxe\u201d edition features the book plus an exclusive companion volume of additional photos in a clamshell box alongside the new Public Image Ltd. live album Alive, a print of a self-portrait by Lydon, and a print of the recent portrait of Lydon done by photographer Lou Boileau for the National Portrait Gallery.<\/p>\n<p>Public Image Ltd. are currently preparing for a second leg of their <a href=\"https:\/\/consequence.net\/2026\/03\/public-image-ltd-2026-2027-north-american-tour\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">2026-2027 North American tour<\/a> set to begin February 12th in Chicago, and run through March 24th in Cleveland. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vividseats.com\/pil-tickets\/performer\/141723\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Get tickets here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Lydon\u2019s co-founding members of Sex Pistols have been touring without him as Sex Pistols Featuring Frank Carter. They recently completed a North American outing, with a UK run set for December.<\/p>\n<p>See the cover of\u00a0Archives and images of the two editions below.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Archive.jpg\" alt=\"John Lydon Archives cover\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1646388\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1444\"  \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Lydon-Archive-Luxe.png\" alt=\"Lydon Archive Luxe\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1646441\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\"  \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Lydon-Archive-Superluxe.png\" alt=\"Lydon Archive Superluxe\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1646440\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1023\"  \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"John Lydon (aka Johnny Rotten) has announced a photographic memoir titled Archive, marking the 50th anniversary of his&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":658148,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[458,146,85,46],"class_list":["post-658147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=658147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658147\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/658148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=658147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=658147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=658147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}