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The music video, featuring Idol attending a goth wedding, is one of his best-known.The bride is played by Perri Lister, Idol's real-life girlfriend at the time.She is also one of the three dancers clad in black leather, who slap their buttocks in time with the clap track in the song as they shimmy downwards near the end.
Idol's debut solo album Billy Idol was released in July 1982. [18] Part of the MTV-driven "Second British Invasion" of the US in 1982, Idol became an MTV staple with "White Wedding" and "Dancing with Myself". The music video for "White Wedding" was filmed by the British director David Mallet and played frequently on MTV. The motorcycle smashing ...
She was a dancer with the British dance troupe Hot Gossip which appeared regularly on The Kenny Everett Video Show in the late 1970s and early 1980s in the United Kingdom. [2] In the 1980s Lister was a backing vocalist for a number of pop music acts, including Billy Idol, with whom she had a nine-year relationship.
Rocker discusses his plans to "start again" on the 40th anniversary of his classic hit. The Story Behind Billy Idol’s Post-Punk Classic “White Wedding” Peter Csathy
Idol, 69, announced the tour with a video featuring comedian Matt Rife as a barista. In the clip, the "Rebel Yell" singer picks up a white mocha at a coffee shop. In the clip, the "Rebel Yell ...
Billy Idol is getting candid about his past struggles with drug addiction and how he's managed to get clean and "California sober."The "White Wedding" rocker recently spoke with People about his ...
Apparently Idol was on "I Love the 80s", and he said that the inspiration for the song was that his little sister got pregnant at a young age and decided to marry the guy, which Billy was against, and that the song is supposed to indicate a general disgust for weddings.
The song "White Wedding (Part 1)" is so-named due to the less-heard "White Wedding (Part 2)", which is a more synthesiser-based continuation of the first part. It can be heard on the 12-inch version of the single and the compilation Vital Idol (1985).