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Thread started 11/30/10 11:37am

Tokyo89

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Billy Idol!

I'm at work and I'm listening to the radio and they play my song!!! "Rebel Yell" dancing jig

I'm 21 so I don't really know who the hell Billy Idol is, but they said today is his birthday and they played a few more of his songs that I am a little familiar with...He's kinda cool lol

So Happy Bday Billy Idol and if he has any fans on the org..say happy bday and post some videos for this young-in lol

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Reply #1 posted 11/30/10 12:01pm

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Reply #2 posted 11/30/10 12:08pm

Tokyo89

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I'm guessing this is Adam Lambert's idol lol

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Reply #3 posted 11/30/10 12:19pm

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I LOVE the IDOL!

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Reply #4 posted 11/30/10 12:26pm

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Billy Idol is the bomb! He has so many great songs from the 80's. I wish he would put out something new.

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Reply #5 posted 11/30/10 12:38pm

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you definately need Wiplash Smile and Rebel Yell, they're fuckin great. New album out soon i believe, his last one was good aswell, Devil's Playground.

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Reply #6 posted 11/30/10 12:43pm

Tokyo89

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bigd74 said:

you definately need Wiplash Smile and Rebel Yell, they're fuckin great. New album out soon i believe, his last one was good aswell, Devil's Playground.

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I love his voice.. I think I could definitely get into him wink

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Reply #7 posted 11/30/10 12:52pm

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I read an interview with Billy a few years ago in some magazine and he said he had a crush on the rapper Eve. smile

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Reply #8 posted 11/30/10 12:55pm

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MickyDolenz said:

I read an interview with Billy a few years ago in some magazine and he said he had a crush on the rapper Eve. smile

Really? Eve??? Out of all the people he could have had a crush on....

hmmm

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Reply #9 posted 11/30/10 2:14pm

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Tokyo89 said:

I'm at work and I'm listening to the radio and they play my song!!! "Rebel Yell" dancing jig

I'm 21 so I don't really know who the hell Billy Idol is, but they said today is his birthday and they played a few more of his songs that I am a little familiar with...He's kinda cool lol

So Happy Bday Billy Idol and if he has any fans on the org..say happy bday and post some videos for this young-in lol

Billy is one of the OG punks from the UK scene in the mid-late 70s. He started w/ Generation X and then went solo. So check out Gen X as well as his solo stuff.

I still Billy's one of the coolest rock stars around. IOW, Billy's really rad. cool

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Reply #10 posted 11/30/10 2:28pm

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I promise you will love his albums razz

The Rebell Yell album has the classic hits Eyes Without A Face, Flesh, Catch My Fall

But deep cuts like Daytime drama, Blue Highway & crank call are some of his all time best song's

Whiplash Smile has the hits To Be A Lover, Sweet 16 & Don't Need a Gun

But it also contains my personal favorite billy song man for all seasons, With a great guitar solo by Steve Stevens.

And also has some of his best rockers like World's Forgotten Boy cool

Charmed Life has the huge hit Cradle Of Love, and the so so remake of L.A Woman. But it also features by second favorite song by Billy Prodigal Blues

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Reply #11 posted 11/30/10 2:42pm

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he's great nod

i really wonder who came up with this look Prince or him lol

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Reply #12 posted 11/30/10 4:23pm

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Got my tickets for Billy at the Fillmore SF! Cant wait!!

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Reply #13 posted 11/30/10 4:27pm

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Tokyo89 said:

MickyDolenz said:

I read an interview with Billy a few years ago in some magazine and he said he had a crush on the rapper Eve. smile

Really? Eve??? Out of all the people he could have had a crush on....

hmmm

What's wrong with Ms. Eve? She cute. smile

I like Idol the man oozes charisma fine rock musician. cool

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Reply #14 posted 12/01/10 2:30am

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Another person I wouldn't know if my mom hadn't introduced me to when I was young, she played his album all the time. My all time fave song by him is Eyes Without a Face!

Prince is GORGEOUS. I'm inspired. GOD is GREAT. Is there anything else to say? lol
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Reply #15 posted 12/01/10 3:18am

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I love Billy Idol in high school!

scorp84: Those are two of my favorite videos! music


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Reply #16 posted 12/01/10 5:52am

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TD3 said:

Tokyo89 said:

Really? Eve??? Out of all the people he could have had a crush on....

hmmm

What's wrong with Ms. Eve? She cute. smile

I like Idol the man oozes charisma fine rock musician. cool

I never thought she was attractive.. lol

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Reply #17 posted 12/01/10 6:26am

RodeoSchro

He was great in "The Wedding Singer".

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Reply #18 posted 12/01/10 6:30am

TD3

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Tokyo89 said:

TD3 said:

What's wrong with Ms. Eve? She's cute. smile

I like Idol the man oozes charisma fine rock musician. cool

I never thought she was attractive.. lol

biggrin Oh, OK.

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TD3 said:

Tokyo89 said:

I never thought she was attractive.. lol

biggrin Oh, OK.

Maybe because she actually makes the same snarl face he's famous for...think about Eve's attitude face in her vids....it's Billy wriiten all over it.

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Reply #20 posted 12/01/10 9:18am

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Steve Stevens is a big part of Billy's solo career (and did "Dirty Diana" with MJ). His wife is on the Rock Star wife show. You can't miss her.

He still puts on a GREAT show. Don't miss it. There's some recent live clips up on You Tube, and all his videos from over the years are easy to find.

Also, if you can find The Who "Tommy" concert on DVD (NOT THE MOVIE, but the one with Phil Collins, Elton John, and Billy), he does such a great, over the top Cousin Kevin.

"Dancing with Myself" is a Generation X song that he wound up putting on his first solo album, but it's one and the same. You wouldn't consider Generation X "punk rock" once you heard it. If you've heard The Buzzcocks (and like Green Day, who played "Dancing With Myself" on the last tour), you'll like it.

I think because he's always around doing shows at clubs, people wind up overlook going to his shows.

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Reply #21 posted 12/01/10 11:01am

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Here is Billy's guitarist Steve Stevens.

You can take a black guy to Nashville from right out of the cotton fields with bib overalls, and they will call him R&B. You can take a white guy in a pin-stripe suit who’s never seen a cotton field, and they will call him country. ~ O. B. McClinton
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Steve Steven's Atomic Playboys is also a wonderful album.

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