Artist: Billy Idol
Genre(s):
Pop: Pop-Rock
Rock
Rock: Pop-Rock
New Age
Discography:
Devil's Playground
Year: 2005
Tracks: 13
Vh1 Storytellers
Year: 2002
Tracks: 14
Greatest Hits
Year: 2001
Tracks: 16
Speed (Single)
Year: 1994
Tracks: 4
Heroin (Single)
Year: 1993
Tracks: 5
Cyberpunk
Year: 1993
Tracks: 20
Charmed Life
Year: 1990
Tracks: 11
Idol Songs - 15 Of The Best
Year: 1988
Tracks: 15
Californian Night
Year: 1987
Tracks: 14
Whiplash Smile-1986
Year: 1986
Tracks: 10
Whiplash Smile
Year: 1986
Tracks: 10
Vital Idol
Year: 1985
Tracks: 7
Rebel Yell
Year: 1983
Tracks: 9
Don't Stop
Year: 1983
Tracks: 5
Billy Idol
Year: 1982
Tracks: 10
Wasteland (single)
Year:
Tracks: 4
LA Woman (Single)
Year:
Tracks: 3
Cradle Of Love (single CD)
Year:
Tracks: 4
Along with Duran Duran, Billy Idol was one the first pop/rock artists to achieve massive success in the former '80s due to a then spic-and-span U.S. television network, MTV. Mixing his bad-boy beneficial looks with an appealing portmanteau word of pop meat hooks, punk attitude, and a dance beats, Idol quickly rocketed to stardom, in front voiceless living derailed his calling and virtually proven fateful. Born William Michael Albert Broad on November 30, 1955, in Middlesex, England, the shaver relocated with his family for a brief spell to New York, earlier returning back to England. After a stint at Sussex University only final a class, Broad establish himself as part of a radical of stripling punk rockers world Health Organization befriended and followed the Sex Pistols, known as "the Bromley Contingent" (a appendage of this colorful radical of characters was Siouxsie Sioux, eventual leader of Siouxsie & the Banshees).
It wasn't long earlier Broad accomplished that he to a fault could be the frontman of a punk rocker ring, and sham the name Billy Idol short thereafter. After a stint playing guitar in a mathematical group called Chelsea didn't pan out (interestingly, the mathematical group featured next Clash guitarist Mick Jones and future Damned guitarist Brian James), Idol put down the guitar and picked up the mic, and recruited bassist Tony James, drummer John Towe, and guitarist Bob Andrews, forming Generation X in 1976. Named after a sixties softback book book, the band signed a recording constrict with Chrysalis short thereafter (Towe was replaced with new skinsman Mark Laff) -- resulting in such releases as 1978's self-titled debut, 1979's Valley of the Dolls, and 1981's Buss Me Deadly -- earlier rending up.
Frustrated with Generation X's dying, Idol relocated to New York City, where he pursued a career as a solo creative person. Hooking up with Kiss manager Bill Aucoin, Idol issued the 1981 EP Don't Stop (comprised of a cover of Tommy James' '60s hit "Mony Mony" and a pair of remixed Generation X tracks), which helped the isaac M. Singer grudge another record deal with his late band's label, Chrysalis. Idol establish the consummate collaborationist and partner in guitarist/Johnny Thunders image Steve Stevens, and issued a self-titled debut in July of 1982. A pair of attention-getting videos for the tracks "Andrew D. White Wedding" and "Dancing With Myself" (the latter a remake of a Generation X constitution) scored major air time on MTV, with both clips focusing in on Idol's spiky, peroxide blond hair and Elvis-like sneer. The debut eventually obtained amber corroboration, and go down the microscope stage absolutely for Idol's vainglorious commercial-grade breakthrough, 1984's Rebel Yell.
Rebel Yell became the singer's best-selling record album of his career (eventually sledding double pt), spawning such big time MTV/radio hits as the album's anthemic title track, "Eyes Without a Face," and "Flesh for Fantasy," establishing Idol as an scene of action star stateside. But with massive success came its many distractions, which prevented Idol from issuance a new studio apartment album until triplet long time after Maverick Yell. 1987's Whiplash Smile was some other sizable bump off on the intensity level of such hits as "To Be a Lover" and "Sweetened Sixteen," but failed to live up to the eminent expectations set by his premature releases. Stevens jumped ship shortly thereafter to launch his have band, Steve Stevens' Atomic Playboys (and eventually was a phallus of Mötley Crüe isaac Bashevis Singer Vince Neil's solo circle), departure Idol to fend for himself.
An eight-track best-of dress, Full of life Idol, was issued later the same year, spawning one of the year's nigh heavily played MTV videos -- a springy version of the previously recorded cover of "Mony Mony" -- which helped maintain Idol in the spot. Idol spent the next few years working on his fourth studio release, just reappeared in the summer of 1989 as part of an all-star rendition of the Who's Tommy, with Idol playing the office of the sadistic character Cousin Kevin. Around the time of Idol's succeeding outlet, 1990's Captivated Life, the isaac Bashevis Singer was involved in a unplayful bike accident (in which he nigh lost his leg), forcing the vocaliser to walk with a cane for a period of time; the video for the album's lead off single, "Cradle of Love," featured the isaac Bashevis Singer filmed from the waist up. The stratagem worked, as the undivided (which was besides used as the root word song in the failed Andrew "Dice" Clay flick, John Ford Fairlane) was some other smash bump off, making Charmed Life the fourth Idol album in a row to achieve at least reach platinum gross revenue.
Expectedly, several age passed before the release of Idol's succeeding record album, during which clock time he tried and true his hand at playing with a bit part in Oliver Stone's question pictorial matter The Doors. By the time 1993's Cyberpunk surfaced, Idol had dropped his spiky peroxide hairdo in piazza of dreadlocks, and experimented with techno beat generation. The move proven to be an unwise one, as the record album tanked and sank from the charts. At the same time, Idol was knee deep in drug addiction, resulting in some other close brush with death when he overdosed and had to be treated in a Los Angeles hospital in 1994. Not often was heard from Idol until 1998, when he made a cameo appearance (as himself) in the come to Adam Sandler/Drew Barrymore clowning The Wedding Singer, which resulted in renewed interest. Idol teamed up erst once again with Stevens, was the subject of a VH1: Behind the Music special (as good as a Storytellers episode for the channel, which was finally issued as a CD), and issued a more extensive Greatest Hits set in 2001; the latter of which sold D,000 copies in the U.S. alone. Next up was his first studio album since Cyberpunk, Devil's Playground, released on Sanctuary in 2005.
