Billy Idol

BILLY IDOL And AVRIL LAVIGNE Do It Together With ’77’

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Daily noise that works faster than a stream of caffeine

23 April 2025


Press photo by Skyler Barberio

The white wedding idol is nominated for this year’s Rock and Roll of Fame induction.
and as communicated a month ago he recorded a new solo LP, his 9th and the first
in 11 years. It’s titled Dream Into It. It appears at the end of the week, April 25th.

Along with the announcement came the first single Still Dancing, a nod
to his first band Generation X’s 1981 hit Dancing With Myself, which he
kept playing as he went solo.

For the 2nd and probably final appetizer, he offers us his duet with rock chick Avril Lavigne. Together they go strong on retro roller 77, the year punk toke over the world.

Let’s roll.

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FOO FIGHTERS And BILLY IDOL Are PRETTY VACANT

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Daily noise that works faster than any stimulant

23 September 2023

Last weekend, Dave Grohl and his FOO FIGHTERS played Jazz Aspen Snowmass Fest a couple of weeks ago. At one point, they invited veteran white wedding punk BILLY IDOL on stage for a high-voltage performance of the Sex Pistols classic Pretty Vacant.

And it went like this.

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TOMMY JAMES AND THE SHONDELLS Topped UK Singles Chart 55 Years Ago With Gospel Rocker ‘MONY MONY’…

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Top singles from the past

21 August 2023

This day 53 years ago, on 31 July 1966, American band TOMMY JAMES
AND THE SHONDELLS occupied the top seat of the UK Singles Chart with
their jangly yeah yeah yeah cracker MONY MONY sounding like rock gospel.

The band had two other massive hits, the sensual Crimson and Clover
and the tremendously frisky Hanky Panky.

Catch the Mony Mony beat here.

If there are some Billy Idol fans watching/listening
right now, here’s the punk’s 1981 ‘Mony Mony‘ cover.

C’mon, Billy.

TOMMY AND THE SHONDELLS: Biography

BILLY IDOL And TONY JAMES (Generation X) + STEVE JONES And PAUL COOK (Sex Pistols) = GENERATION SEX

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2 July 2023

GENERATION SEX? Take two Generation X (1976-1981) punks, Billy Idol (vocals) and Tony James (bass). Add two sex pistols (1975-1978 and several reunions), Steve Jones (guitar) and Paul Cook and you have a punk supergroup.

The veterans got together for the first time in 2018, playing a series of gigs and went back home afterward. But these are music junkies, so this year they returned for another series of gigs (festivals and indoors). One of them was in Utrecht, The Netherlands, last Tuesday.
I travelled to our neighbours to sniff some of the good old punk nostalgia.

And? It was big fun, no more, no less. They sounded as a cover band of their own respectively classics, that came to rock out, nothing more, nothing less and to invite
us to go bananas to all the golden oldies they cranked-up (setlist below) what we all
did of course.

Billy Idol‘s presence was a bit of a letdown. Instead of flaming up the crowd, he stood there most of the time as a shy boy despite the fact that he was a natural-born frontman all his life. On the other hand we had riff maniac Steve Jones who produced enough electricity to get us all loaded for the full show. Lots of dancing by ourselves.

Glastonbury last weekend

PICTURE THIS


“So what’s up, Billy?”


Tony and Billy, old mates


Riffin’ Steve


“So that’s how you play guitar”


Anarchy in The Netherlands

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All photos by Turn Up The Volume

Punk Icons SIOUXSIE And BILLY IDOL Meet Again For The First Time In 32 Years

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Punk icons BILLY IDOL and SIOUXSIE met again for the first time
in 32 years. It happened yesterday, one day before the start of this
weekend’s Cruel World Fest in Pasadena, CA where both artists
will perform.

Both artists were part of the so-called Bromley Contigent in the mid-70s.
A group of young fans and fanatic followers of the Sex Pistols. They helped
popularise the fashion of the early UK punk movement.

White Wedding for Siouxsie.

Kiss Billy for me.