“Disappointed” by Public Image Ltd.

Public Image Ltd. led off 9, their seventh album, with "Disappointed" in 1989, and John Lydon aims the title at his own bandmates past and present: the lyric grew out of years of friends inside the band who, as he tells it, kept letting him down.

Guitarist John McGeoch got the music started in an alternate tuning he'd picked up from the Who's Pete Townshend, and the writing credit is shared six ways between Lydon, McGeoch, Allan Dias, Lu Edmonds, Bruce Smith and Stephen Hague, who produced it with the band and mixed it with Dave Meegan. It gave PiL their biggest UK single in three years and a hit on American alternative radio, and Lydon has named it one of his own favorites.

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