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A press pack was distributed to the media prior to its release to promote the album. The centerpiece of the pack was a copy of the Billy Idol's Cyberpunk custom stickered 3½" floppy disk, which was housed in a custom multi-coloured folder with artist and title logo on the front and contact information on the back. The pack included a 5-page ...
The Very Best of Billy Idol: Idolize Yourself is a greatest hits album by English singer Billy Idol, released on 24 June 2008 by Capitol Records. It features 16 of Idol's past singles, as well as two new tracks, "John Wayne" and "New Future Weapon".
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 ...
"Rebel Yell" is a song by English rock musician Billy Idol. It is the title track of his second album Rebel Yell (1983), and was released as the album's lead single in January 1984 by Chrysalis Records. Initially, it only reached No. 62 in the UK and No. 46 in the US upon its release.
"I needed to get ahold of myself. I was going to kill myself, or I was going to go crazy, or be locked up forever," the rock star says of his 1990 epiphany, which inspired his new single.
During the punk rock movement in London in late 1976, [5] William Broad (aka Billy Idol), a 21-year-old guitar-playing university drop-out from Bromley and associate of the Bromley Contingent; the drummer John Towe, a West End music shop assistant; [6] and – at Broad's suggestion, having already met via an advertisement previously placed in the Melody Maker by Broad seeking other musicians ...
Billy Idol talks 'Rebel Yell,' 40 years on: Hiding master tapes with heroin dealer, the shelved cover song, rejecting a Rick Springfield haircut and more Lyndsey Parker November 9, 2023 at 1:14 PM
Kings & Queens of the Underground is the eighth studio album by English rock vocalist Billy Idol, released on 17 October 2014 by BFI Records.It was Idol's first album of new original material since Devil's Playground (2005) and only his third album in over twenty years.