Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Chiu is a freelance music writer based in New York. When British rocker Billy Idol was recording his second full-length solo ...
British rockstar Billy Idol is one of the most beloved icons of the '80s. However, it wasn't until his hit song, and his album’s namesake, Rebel Yell that he truly became a bona fide superstar in ...
Growing up in New York — specifically in Queen’s Kew Gardens — a young Steven Schneider would go to see all-night rock and roll movies at the Eighth Street Playhouse in Manhattan’s Greenwich Village.
In the early 1980s, Billy Idol exploded onto the American music scene with “Dancing with Myself,” the neo-punk anthem that he originally recorded with Generation X. He had recently left England for ...
In 1976, a gang of young, early-adopter punk fans, dubbed the “Bromley Contingent” by the British press, began following the Sex Pistols around Europe. One of those fans, William Broad — soon to be ...
Billy Idol will commemorate the 40th anniversary of his sophomore album Rebel Yell with a deluxe expanded edition set to arrive on April 26. The new reissue will feature several previously unreleased ...
“I’ve been fighting with my demons so long, they’ve become my friends,” sings Billy Idol on “Cage,” the title track of his upcoming four-song EP. Outside the realm of personal demonology and in the ...
Rebel Yell was a merger of hard rock, New Wave and pop. Legendary rock and roller and punk icon Billy Idol celebrates the 40th anniversary of his second album, "Rebel Yell," with a new deluxe expanded ...