John Lydon an enthusiast than an expert". He went to present two further programmes: "John Lydon Goes Ape", in which he searched for gorillas in Central Africa, and "John Lydon's Shark Attack", in which he swam with sharks off South Africa. In late 2008 Lydon appeared in an advertising campaign for "Country Life", a popular brand of butter, on British television. Lydon defended the move by stating that the main reason he accepted the offer was to raise money to reform Public Image Ltd without a record deal. The advertising campaign proved to be highly successful, with sales of the brand raising
The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle (album) The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle (album) The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle is the soundtrack album of the film of the same name by the Sex Pistols. By the time the soundtrack was being prepared, Johnny Rotten (Lydon) had left the band and refused to participate in the project, so the "proper" Sex Pistols tracks were done by taking Lydon's vocals from the October 1976 demo session recordings and rerecording their instrumental tracks (done by Paul Cook and Steve Jones). The double album features a significant number of tracks that omit Lydon entirely, most of them written and recorded