the band and Malcolm never bothered to find out if I could sing, they just took me as an image. It was as basic as that, they really were as dull as that. After a year of it they were going 'Why don't you have your hair this colour this year?' And I was going 'Oh God, a brick wall, I'm fighting a brick wall!' They don't understand even now." Jah Wobble (2009/12): "Indeed the first bassline that I ever presented to John and Keith [...] It had been the first song that we had worked on in the rehearsals." "It's the open E string with an interval to the B which I always really like, that was first ever proper b-line I wrote. I made that up at home and took it into the studio and we finished it off there. There was another bass line at the beginning which I'm not sure if it got used, it might have kind of got turned into 'Religion'." "Low Life": John Lydon (1978/99): "Malcolm McLaren the bourgeoisie anarchist – that about sums him up!" "'Low Life' is about Sid and how he turned into the worst kind of rock 'n' roll star." Keith Levene (2001/07): "There was this guy that was an old mate of John's (...) This guy, [fashion designer] Kenny MacDonald, made his suit and all of ours, and it made him look good to have the guys from PiL wearing his stuff (...) He wouldn't be his lapdog, and John thought he was a star and wanted that. John named him on our first album on 'Low Life'." "That song was about Malcolm McLaren in theory, but at one point I think it was about [Lydon's schoolfriend] John Gray. Lydon's usually got the hump with someone, and he usually writes with someone in mind, someone he's not too happy with." Jah Wobble (2009): "It's kind of rock, but with a weird feel." "Fodderstompf": John Lydon (1978): "You should've seen Branson's face when he heard that, he was furious!" Jim Walker (2001): "Not even a song just a wank, ripping off our fans. It still turns my stomach thinking about it." Tony Dale (roadie, 2004): "It's mostly Wobble on the track, as you probably realise, with his Northern falsetto, wise-cracks, and fire-extinguisher antics. [...] I remember Wobble coming in[to the control room] for the cigarettes. It's the engineer [Mark