Keith Levene was the pioneering guitarist who played in two of the most influential bands to come out of the punk and new wave scenes of the late Seventies and early Eighties, The Clash and Public Image Limited (PiL).
Levene, who has died aged 65, had a unique “metallic” guitar playing style that, together with Jah Wobble’s pounding rhythmic bass, defined the PiL sound. Interviewed in 2001, he said: “Once I got good enough to know the rules, I didn’t want to be like any other guitarist. I didn’t go out of my way to be different.”
