Billy Idol

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l was an early architect of the sound, style, and fury of punk rock. His lip-curling sneer and fist-pumping persona vaulted him into the mainstream as one of MTV's first megastars, making him one of the most recognizable faces in pop music, while selling out arenas everywhere he played. He has sold 40 million albums while scoring numerous platinum albums worldwide, nine top forty singles in the U.S. and 10 in the U.K. including "Dancing With Myself," "White Wedding,"0 "Rebel Yell," "Mony Mony," "Eyes Without A Face," "Flesh For Fantasy," and "Cradle Of Love."

The autumn of 2014 will see Idol return to the spotlight with two high profile releases that mark the latest chapter in the long and remarkable story of a musician, an inventor, a survivor, a father, a son, a man who returned from the brink, and a rebel whose yells made the mainstream sit up and pay attention. On October 7, Simon and Schuster will publish Billy Idol's autobiography, Dancing With Myself. It's an electric, intelligent, brutally honest and entirely self-written account of Billy Idol's journey to fame, from his early days as front man of the pioneering UK punk band Generation X to a long and often decadent life lived loving sex, drugs, rock'n'roll, and motorcycles. On October 21, BFI Records will release Kings & Queens of the Underground, Billy?s first album of new material in nearly a decade. The album's palette, which includes incredible contributions from Idol's longtime collaborator and lead guitarist Steve Stevens, will be instantly familiar to lovers of classic Billy Idol, while announcing a firm step into the future. Produced by Trevor Horn, it is full of thumping, cinematic songs about sin, redemption and the love of rock'n'roll.

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