Editing Public Image: First Issue (section)

===Related tracks===
'''"The Cowboy Song" ''(single B-side)'':''' 
*'''John Lydon (1978):''' "You can dance to that song, and it cost us approximately £1 to make. It's just a jolly good disco record and it came about cos we were bored and couldn't think of a B-side."<ref>Robin Banks: ''"We Only Wanted to Be Loved"'' (''[[ZigZag (magazine)|ZigZag]]'', December 1978)</ref>
*'''Jim Walker (2001/07):''' "The thing was, I'd come up with the idea for that song one morning. I was trying to rip off the theme song for [[Bonanza]]."<ref name="Walker"/> "We all sat around the mic drunk, did two takes, screaming randomly."<ref>Phil Strongman: ''"John Lydon's Metal Box – The Story of Public Image Ltd".'' (Helter Skelter, 2007, page 74)</ref>

'''"You Stupid Person" ''(unreleased instrumental demo)'':''' 
*'''Jah Wobble (1999/2007):''' "It was an instrumental from when we very first started, when Jim Walker was on drums. That was really good."<ref>Scott Murphy: ''"Jah Wobble Interview"'' (''The Filth and The Fury'' #9 fanzine, April 1999)</ref> "That was a good one, a really strong song."<ref>Phil Strongman: ''"John Lydon's Metal Box – The Story of Public Image Ltd".'' (Helter Skelter, 2007, page 60)</ref>
*'''Jim Walker (2001):''' "Once during a break I stayed on my kit, you know, fooling around, when suddenly Keith jumped up and shouted to me to repeat whatever it was that I'd been playing. It was just some [[Hi-hat (instrument)|hi-hat]] thing. I'd always focused on developing my left hand side, in other words my hi-hat side. Anyway, I repeated it. Wobble instinctively came up with the perfect bassline part. Then Keith, who had heard exactly what he wanted through the thing I'd started, played the most blistering guitar part I think I ever heard him play. That was how PiL wrote: through the subconscious. That song ended up being named 'You Stupid Person'. It was meant to be our second single. [...] It was actually a lot better than 'Public Image'. It would have been impossible to keep from being a number one hit, and probably would have broke us in America all by itself. We managed to demo it,<ref>''Rollerball Rehearsal Studios'' (75–81 Tooley Street, London SE1), PIL's rehearsal studio had a 4-track on which they also recorded "Graveyard" for their follow-up album ''[[Metal Box]]''</ref> I've still got a copy."<ref name="Walker"/>
*'''John Lydon (2004):''' "I don't know what he's talking about [...] I don't know what he's quite on about."<ref>Scott Murphy: ''"John Lydon Interview"'' (''Fodderstompf.com'' website, January 2004)</ref>

'''"Steel Leg V. the Electric Dread":'''<ref>[http://www.discogs.com/Steel-Leg-V-Electric-Dread-Steel-Leg-V-The-Electric-Dread/release/1078079] Don Letts, Stratetime Keith, Steel Leg, Jah Wobble: ''"Steel Leg V. The Electric Dread"'' 12-inch single (Virgin Records, released December 1978)</ref>
*'''Jah Wobble (1988/2009):''' "I also released 'Steel Leg V. the Electric Dread', another 12-inch with Keith Levene on guitars and Vince, a mate from [[London Borough of Hackney|Hackney]], on vocals. He thought he was going to be a millionaire but it was only like a session fee. I gave him a ton (£100) which weren't bad money in the late '70s".<ref>Jim McCarthy: "Jah Invades This Space" (''Deadline'', October 1988)</ref> "Keith played drums on that. The extra money came in really handy. To be honest it was a pisstake record in the same way that 'Fodderstompf' was a pisstake track, you only have to listen to Vince's side to realise that."<ref name="Serpent 2009, page 88"/>
*'''Don Letts (guest vocalist, 2007):''' "Keith Levene and Jah Wobble needed some money, so they ended up making a single for Virgin Records called 'Steel Leg V. The Electric Dread'. They got me down to the studio to work on some vocals, even though I had never sung in my life. I remember sitting on the stairs with a microphone trying to write some words. Eventually I said to them 'Okay guys, I'll go home and work out some lyrics.' I never heard back from them, and the next thing I knew there was a record out. They had used my demo vocals and stuck them on the track! [...] It was a crap record, and I look back and laugh about all this stuff now."<ref>Don Letts, David Nobakht: ''"Culture Clash – Dread Meets Punk Rockers"'' (SAF Publishing, 2007, pages 104–105)</ref> "I didn't even know they were recording me. I went into some basement toilet just to mumble some lyrics into a mic and hear what they sound like [...] Then I'm waiting to get a call to do the record, and the next thing I heard is they've played with my voice a bit, stuck a track under it and put the whole thing out as a finished record. I was a little bit pissed off to tell you the truth, because I thought we'd finish it properly."<ref>Phil Strongman: ''"John Lydon's Metal Box – The Story of Public Image Ltd".'' (Helter Skelter, 2007, page 77)</ref>