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EXCLUSIVE: New (old) Music from Keith Levene

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Keith Levene is certainly best known as one of the founder members of two seminal 1970s bands; Public Image Limited and The Clash. I got to know him recently, and I must say that he is a fascinating bloke, and I am off to London next weekend to film him. He left PiL in 1983 and what happened next is documented by Wikipedia. In the PiL article it claims: “Atkins, like Levene and Lydon, was a control freak, but Levene had the disadvantage of having repeatedly fired Atkins over apparent trifles, and of being incapacitated on heroin much of the time—so when conflict arose again, Levene was the one to go. An aborted fourth album recorded in 1982 was later released by Levene as 'Commercial Zone', which included contributions from bass player Pete Jones. Lydon and Atkins claim that Levene stole the master tapes.”, and in a separate article for 'Commercial Zone' they go into more depth: “In May 1981 PiL moved from London to New York City, but in October 1981 their American record contract with Warner Brothers exp