PiL will perform in Budapest as part of the highly successful This Is Not the Last Tour concert series, organizer Live Nation told MTI.

During their more than four decades of existence, the British-American group has recorded four Top 20 singles (Public Image, Death Disco, This Is Not a Love Song, Rise) and three Top 20 albums (Metal Box, The Flowers of Romance, Album) in the United Kingdom. Their unique sound combines rock, dance, folk, pop and dub, which has influenced several generations and inspired thousands of musicians.

John Lydon (formerly Johnny Rotten) founded Public Image Ltd in 1978 after his previous band, the now legendary punk band the Sex Pistols, had ended. The band went on a long hiatus in 1992, but returned in 2009 with renewed vigor and delivered songs one after another.

Since their re-formation, they have released three critically acclaimed albums: This is PiL in 2012, What the World Needs Now... in 2015, and End of World in 2023, the latter being their eleventh studio album.

John Lydon lost his wife, Nora, and his manager and friend, John Rambo Stevens, in 2023, and for a long time thought touring was over for him and that he would never want to perform again. However, the love of the audience convinced him that it would be a mistake to stop.

PiL's current line-up includes founder John Lydon (vocals), Robert "Lu" Edmonds (guitar, keyboards), Scott Firth (bass, keyboards) and Mark Roberts (drums). The band has played in Hungary once before, at the 2010 Sziget festival; Lydon previously performed at Sziget with the re-formed Sex Pistols in 2008.

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