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"John Lydon has revealed that his lyrics got burnt when a house fire caused major damage to his London home earlier this year. The Sex Pistols star told BBC 6 Music that he has been forced to come up with lyrics as he goes along in new recording sessions for Public Image Ltd. Lydon said: &amp;quot;Ever since we had that silly little house fire, all my lyrics got burnt down so I had to start again from scratch trying to remember ideas but it&amp;#039;s much more enjoyable this way.  &amp;quot;I like the panic and the fear of going in there live and having to come up with something. It&amp;#039;s a really, really exciting environment we&amp;#039;ve put ourselves in.&amp;quot; Lydon added of working in the studio provided by musician Steve Winwood: &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s a barn - there&amp;#039;s nothing too flash but then we don&amp;#039;t need flash, over-the-top electronica. We&amp;#039;re a live band, and we record live, we play and if you can&amp;#039;t play it live then don&amp;#039;t be recording it. This is PiL. &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s got that anti-studio vibe which we love. Stone walls is the order of the day. I&amp;#039;ve loved stone walls ever since the early PiL albums. I love the resonance the drum kit can achieve in a stone-built environment. It makes for great, exciting-sounding records without electronic gadgetry and trickery.&amp;quot; Lydon had previously suggested that PiL would release a new album before the end of 2010 but the death of his step-daughter Arianna &amp;#039;Ari-Up&amp;#039; Forster delayed the reunion plans. &amp;gt; John Lydon: &amp;#039;I&amp;#039;d write new Sex Pistols songs&amp;#039; Listen to the BBC 6 Music interview with John Lydon below:  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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