BILLY IDOL Is Back And Still Dancing With Himself
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1 March 2025
Photo credit: Haydn Wiltshire
Here comes Billy again.
Idol (born William Michael Albert Broad, 69 years ago) started his career with
London‘s punk band Generation X (1975-1981). After the band broke up smart
money-greedy American marketing people discovered him, signed him and
trasnformed him into a mainstream punk rebel. And it worked big bucks time.
Two years ago he and his old Gen X bandmate Tony James and the Sex Pistols‘ drummer
Paul Cook and guitarist Steve Jones got together for some gigs billed as Generation Sex.
Photo by Turn Up The Volume – Utrecht, The Netherlands – 2023
He’s nominated for this year’s Rock and Roll of Fame event.
And he recorded a new solo LP, his 9th and first in 11 years.
It’s titled Dream Into It. It appears on April 25th.
The first single STILL DANCING a nod to Generation X’s 1981 hit
Dancing With Myself. Idol took the song along as he went solo.
Idol: “Still Dancing” is really a reflection of my whole journey. From the punk rock period through to now. And I’m still looking towards the future, still living the life I set out to live.
At the start of the song I’m recalling the early times in London, when I was living in squats
or at friends’ apartments, all my belongings in a plastic bag. Everybody at home or work told you what you were doing was never going to happen. But punk rock gave me an opening. I was surrounded by people who loved the music as deeply as I did and you were going to throw caution to the wind, believe in what you were doing and grab on for dear life.
As the song says, there have been many moments along the way where I’ve been self destructive. But what’s seen me through is that unflinching belief in the music that
started all those years ago. That’s been the greatest gift of all.
Wake up, people,
Billy is still rocking.
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