l was an early architect of the sound, style, and fury of punk rock. His lip-curling sneer and fist-pumping persona vaulted him into the mainstream as one of MTV's first megastars, making him one of the most recognizable faces in pop music, while selling out arenas everywhere he played. He has sold 40 million albums while scoring numerous platinum albums worldwide, nine top forty singles in the U.S. and 10 in the U.K. including "Dancing With Myself," "White Wedding,"0 "Rebel Yell," "Mony Mony," "Eyes Without A Face," "Flesh For Fantasy," and "Cradle Of Love."
The autumn of 2014 will see Idol return to the spotlight with two high profile releases that mark the latest chapter in the long and remarkable story of a musician, an inventor, a survivor, a father, a son, a man who returned from the brink, and a rebel whose yells made the mainstream sit up and pay attention. On October 7, Simon and Schuster will publish Billy Idol's autobiography, Dancing With Myself. It's an electric, intelligent, brutally honest and entirely self-written account of Billy Idol's journey to fame, from his early days as front man of the pioneering UK punk band Generation X to a long and often decadent life lived loving sex, drugs, rock'n'roll, and motorcycles. On October 21, BFI Records will release Kings & Queens of the Underground, Billy?s first album of new material in nearly a decade. The album's palette, which includes incredible contributions from Idol's longtime collaborator and lead guitarist Steve Stevens, will be instantly familiar to lovers of classic Billy Idol, while announcing a firm step into the future. Produced by Trevor Horn, it is full of thumping, cinematic songs about sin, redemption and the love of rock'n'roll.
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Idol's first solo album was released by Chrysalis in 1982, but it didn't hit its chart peak until the following year. The self-titled album's “White Wedding” and “Dancing with Myself” (a new version of a song Idol first recorded with Generation X) were major club hits in 1983, fueled by heavy video play on MTV. “White Wedding” also crossed over to the Top 5 of the Mainstream Rock chart, while “Hot In the City” made the Top 50 of the Billboard Hot 100, and Billy Idol was certified gold with U.S. sales totaling more than 500,000 units.
Idol really smashed through with his 1984 double platinum album, Rebel Yell. Stocked with major radio and MTV hits, including “Rebel Yell,” “Eyes Without a Face,” “Flesh For Fantasy” and “Catch My Fall,” the album reached 6 on the Billboard 200.
1987's platinum-selling Vital Idol collection presented his hits in expanded remixes, including the chart-topping smash “Mony, Mony;” that same year, Idol released a new album, the platinum Top 10 Whiplash Smile, with its standout singles “To Be A Lover” and “Don't Need A Gun.” The platinum-certified Charmed Life album followed in 1990 with “Cradle Of Love” and “L.A. Woman.” 1993's Cyberpunk included the Top 10 Mainstream Rock hit “Shock To The System.” A platinum-selling Greatest Hits collection, released in 2000, re-charged Idol's catalog, and 12 years after his last new album release, he returned with Devil's Playground in 2005 (Sanctuary). The album's “World Comin' Down” is included in the new collection's tracks.
“It's funny what you have to do to carve out your own niche,” Idol says with a laugh when asked about the new collection's Idolize Yourself title. “But everyone should idolize themselves, shouldn't they?” The niche that Billy Idol has created over these past few decades is no laughing matter. Beyond the platinum sound and the platinum hair, Idol is respected as the original punk rocker who long ago found a way to take that sneering punk attitude to the top of the charts.
https://www.facebook.com/BillyIdol
https://twitter.com/billyidol
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The autumn of 2014 will see Idol return to the spotlight with two high profile releases that mark the latest chapter in the long and remarkable story of a musician, an inventor, a survivor, a father, a son, a man who returned from the brink, and a rebel whose yells made the mainstream sit up and pay attention. On October 7, Simon and Schuster will publish Billy Idol's autobiography, Dancing With Myself. It's an electric, intelligent, brutally honest and entirely self-written account of Billy Idol's journey to fame, from his early days as front man of the pioneering UK punk band Generation X to a long and often decadent life lived loving sex, drugs, rock'n'roll, and motorcycles. On October 21, BFI Records will release Kings & Queens of the Underground, Billy?s first album of new material in nearly a decade. The album's palette, which includes incredible contributions from Idol's longtime collaborator and lead guitarist Steve Stevens, will be instantly familiar to lovers of classic Billy Idol, while announcing a firm step into the future. Produced by Trevor Horn, it is full of thumping, cinematic songs about sin, redemption and the love of rock'n'roll.
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Idol's first solo album was released by Chrysalis in 1982, but it didn't hit its chart peak until the following year. The self-titled album's “White Wedding” and “Dancing with Myself” (a new version of a song Idol first recorded with Generation X) were major club hits in 1983, fueled by heavy video play on MTV. “White Wedding” also crossed over to the Top 5 of the Mainstream Rock chart, while “Hot In the City” made the Top 50 of the Billboard Hot 100, and Billy Idol was certified gold with U.S. sales totaling more than 500,000 units.
Idol really smashed through with his 1984 double platinum album, Rebel Yell. Stocked with major radio and MTV hits, including “Rebel Yell,” “Eyes Without a Face,” “Flesh For Fantasy” and “Catch My Fall,” the album reached 6 on the Billboard 200.
1987's platinum-selling Vital Idol collection presented his hits in expanded remixes, including the chart-topping smash “Mony, Mony;” that same year, Idol released a new album, the platinum Top 10 Whiplash Smile, with its standout singles “To Be A Lover” and “Don't Need A Gun.” The platinum-certified Charmed Life album followed in 1990 with “Cradle Of Love” and “L.A. Woman.” 1993's Cyberpunk included the Top 10 Mainstream Rock hit “Shock To The System.” A platinum-selling Greatest Hits collection, released in 2000, re-charged Idol's catalog, and 12 years after his last new album release, he returned with Devil's Playground in 2005 (Sanctuary). The album's “World Comin' Down” is included in the new collection's tracks.
“It's funny what you have to do to carve out your own niche,” Idol says with a laugh when asked about the new collection's Idolize Yourself title. “But everyone should idolize themselves, shouldn't they?” The niche that Billy Idol has created over these past few decades is no laughing matter. Beyond the platinum sound and the platinum hair, Idol is respected as the original punk rocker who long ago found a way to take that sneering punk attitude to the top of the charts.
https://www.facebook.com/BillyIdol
https://twitter.com/billyidol
l was an early architect of the sound, style, and fury of punk rock. His lip-curling sneer and fist-pumping persona vaulted him into the mainstream as one of MTV's first megastars, making him one of the most recognizable faces in pop music, while selling out arenas everywhere he played. He has sold 40 million albums while scoring numerous platinum albums worldwide, nine top forty singles in the U.S. and 10 in the U.K. including "Dancing With Myself," "White Wedding,"0 "Rebel Yell," "Mony Mony," "Eyes Without A Face," "Flesh For Fantasy," and "Cradle Of Love."
The autumn of 2014 will see Idol return to the spotlight with two high profile releases that mark the latest chapter in the long and remarkable story of a musician, an inventor, a survivor, a father, a son, a man who returned from the brink, and a rebel whose yells made the mainstream sit up and pay attention. On October 7, Simon and Schuster will publish Billy Idol's autobiography, Dancing With Myself. It's an electric, intelligent, brutally honest and entirely self-written account of Billy Idol's journey to fame, from his early days as front man of the pioneering UK punk band Generation X to a long and often decadent life lived loving sex, drugs, rock'n'roll, and motorcycles. On October 21, BFI Records will release Kings & Queens of the Underground, Billy?s first album of new material in nearly a decade. The album's palette, which includes incredible contributions from Idol's longtime collaborator and lead guitarist Steve Stevens, will be instantly familiar to lovers of classic Billy Idol, while announcing a firm step into the future. Produced by Trevor Horn, it is full of thumping, cinematic songs about sin, redemption and the love of rock'n'roll.
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Idol's first solo album was released by Chrysalis in 1982, but it didn't hit its chart peak until the following year. The self-titled album's “White Wedding” and “Dancing with Myself” (a new version of a song Idol first recorded with Generation X) were major club hits in 1983, fueled by heavy video play on MTV. “White Wedding” also crossed over to the Top 5 of the Mainstream Rock chart, while “Hot In the City” made the Top 50 of the Billboard Hot 100, and Billy Idol was certified gold with U.S. sales totaling more than 500,000 units.
Idol really smashed through with his 1984 double platinum album, Rebel Yell. Stocked with major radio and MTV hits, including “Rebel Yell,” “Eyes Without a Face,” “Flesh For Fantasy” and “Catch My Fall,” the album reached 6 on the Billboard 200.
1987's platinum-selling Vital Idol collection presented his hits in expanded remixes, including the chart-topping smash “Mony, Mony;” that same year, Idol released a new album, the platinum Top 10 Whiplash Smile, with its standout singles “To Be A Lover” and “Don't Need A Gun.” The platinum-certified Charmed Life album followed in 1990 with “Cradle Of Love” and “L.A. Woman.” 1993's Cyberpunk included the Top 10 Mainstream Rock hit “Shock To The System.” A platinum-selling Greatest Hits collection, released in 2000, re-charged Idol's catalog, and 12 years after his last new album release, he returned with Devil's Playground in 2005 (Sanctuary). The album's “World Comin' Down” is included in the new collection's tracks.
“It's funny what you have to do to carve out your own niche,” Idol says with a laugh when asked about the new collection's Idolize Yourself title. “But everyone should idolize themselves, shouldn't they?” The niche that Billy Idol has created over these past few decades is no laughing matter. Beyond the platinum sound and the platinum hair, Idol is respected as the original punk rocker who long ago found a way to take that sneering punk attitude to the top of the charts.
https://www.facebook.com/BillyIdol
https://twitter.com/billyidol
read more
The autumn of 2014 will see Idol return to the spotlight with two high profile releases that mark the latest chapter in the long and remarkable story of a musician, an inventor, a survivor, a father, a son, a man who returned from the brink, and a rebel whose yells made the mainstream sit up and pay attention. On October 7, Simon and Schuster will publish Billy Idol's autobiography, Dancing With Myself. It's an electric, intelligent, brutally honest and entirely self-written account of Billy Idol's journey to fame, from his early days as front man of the pioneering UK punk band Generation X to a long and often decadent life lived loving sex, drugs, rock'n'roll, and motorcycles. On October 21, BFI Records will release Kings & Queens of the Underground, Billy?s first album of new material in nearly a decade. The album's palette, which includes incredible contributions from Idol's longtime collaborator and lead guitarist Steve Stevens, will be instantly familiar to lovers of classic Billy Idol, while announcing a firm step into the future. Produced by Trevor Horn, it is full of thumping, cinematic songs about sin, redemption and the love of rock'n'roll.
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Idol's first solo album was released by Chrysalis in 1982, but it didn't hit its chart peak until the following year. The self-titled album's “White Wedding” and “Dancing with Myself” (a new version of a song Idol first recorded with Generation X) were major club hits in 1983, fueled by heavy video play on MTV. “White Wedding” also crossed over to the Top 5 of the Mainstream Rock chart, while “Hot In the City” made the Top 50 of the Billboard Hot 100, and Billy Idol was certified gold with U.S. sales totaling more than 500,000 units.
Idol really smashed through with his 1984 double platinum album, Rebel Yell. Stocked with major radio and MTV hits, including “Rebel Yell,” “Eyes Without a Face,” “Flesh For Fantasy” and “Catch My Fall,” the album reached 6 on the Billboard 200.
1987's platinum-selling Vital Idol collection presented his hits in expanded remixes, including the chart-topping smash “Mony, Mony;” that same year, Idol released a new album, the platinum Top 10 Whiplash Smile, with its standout singles “To Be A Lover” and “Don't Need A Gun.” The platinum-certified Charmed Life album followed in 1990 with “Cradle Of Love” and “L.A. Woman.” 1993's Cyberpunk included the Top 10 Mainstream Rock hit “Shock To The System.” A platinum-selling Greatest Hits collection, released in 2000, re-charged Idol's catalog, and 12 years after his last new album release, he returned with Devil's Playground in 2005 (Sanctuary). The album's “World Comin' Down” is included in the new collection's tracks.
“It's funny what you have to do to carve out your own niche,” Idol says with a laugh when asked about the new collection's Idolize Yourself title. “But everyone should idolize themselves, shouldn't they?” The niche that Billy Idol has created over these past few decades is no laughing matter. Beyond the platinum sound and the platinum hair, Idol is respected as the original punk rocker who long ago found a way to take that sneering punk attitude to the top of the charts.
https://www.facebook.com/BillyIdol
https://twitter.com/billyidol
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