Editing Public Image Ltd (section)

===1987–1992: Later career===
PiL released the studio album ''[[Happy? (Public Image Ltd album)|Happy?]]'' in 1987, and during early 1988 were the supporting act on [[INXS]]' ''[[Kick (INXS album)|Kick]]'' tour in the US. Bill Laswell, who produced PiL's previous studio album, was at one point supposed to produce ''Happy?'', but this idea fell through allegedly because Laswell wanted to replace the PiL line-up with his own session musicians (as had been the case with ''Album''), a request to which John Lydon would not agree. ''Happy?'' was ultimately produced by [[Gary Langan]] and PiL. The album produced the single "Seattle" as well as the abortion-themed single "The Body", a sequel of sorts to the similarly titled Sex Pistols song "[[Bodies (Sex Pistols song)|Bodies]]". In 1989, PiL toured with [[New Order (band)|New Order]] and [[the Sugarcubes]] as "The Monsters of Alternative Rock". PiL's seventh studio album, ''[[9 (Public Image Ltd. album)|9]]'' – so called as it was the band's ninth official album release, including the two live albums – appeared in early 1989 and featured the single "[[Disappointed (Public Image Ltd song)|Disappointed]]". The album was produced by [[Stephen Hague]] (who was known for working with the [[Pet Shop Boys]] and New Order), Eric "E.T." Thorngren and the band.

In 1990, Public Image Ltd's song "The Order of Death" (from ''This is What You Want... This is What You Get'') was prominently featured in [[Richard Stanley (director)|Richard Stanley]]'s film ''[[Hardware (film)|Hardware]]''. That same year saw the release of PiL's first compilation album ''[[The Greatest Hits, So Far]]'', which featured one new song, the environmentally themed single "Don't Ask Me". The rest of the album consisted of previously released material, though remixes of several songs were used rather than original album versions and the album remake of "This is Not a Love Song" was included rather than the original single version. Lydon claims that he wanted the album to be 28 tracks long; the eventual 14-track listing was a compromise with Virgin Records (who, according to Lydon, originally wanted only eight tracks). The compilation, which boasted album-sleeve artwork by [[Reg Mombassa]], made No.&nbsp;20 on the [[UK Albums Chart]].

PiL's last studio album of this period, 1992's ''[[That What Is Not]]'', included a [[Sampling (music)|sample]] from the Sex Pistols' song [[God Save the Queen (Sex Pistols song)|"God Save the Queen"]] in the song "Acid Drops" (the younger Lydon's voice is heard chanting the words, "No future, no future..." in the outro). Lydon disbanded the group a year later after Virgin Records refused to pay for the tour supporting the album, and Lydon had to pay for it out of his own pocket. The band's last concert was performed on 18 September 1992 with the line-up of Lydon, McGeoch, Ted Chau (guitar, keyboards), [[Mike Joyce (musician)|Mike Joyce]] of [[the Smiths]] (drums), and [[Russell Webb (musician)|Russell Webb]] (bass guitar).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.answers.com/topic/public-image-ltd |title=Public Image Ltd.: Information from |publisher=Answers.com |access-date=17 August 2010}}</ref> Allan Dias, PiL's bassist since the spring of 1986, quit the band in the summer of 1992, some months before PiL itself went on hiatus.