Idols debut solo album Billy Idol was released in July 1982. 16.Subsequently, he embarked on a solo career which led to international recognition and made Idol a lead artist during the MTV -driven Second British Invasion in the United States.
The name Billy Idol was inspired by a schoolteachers description of him as idle. With his former bandmate Tony James, Idol formed the band Generation X. With Idol ás lead singer, thé band achieved succéss in the Unitéd Kingdom and reIeased three albums ón Chrysalis Records, thén disbanded. In 1981, Idol moved to New York City to pursue his solo career in collaboration with guitarist Steve Stevens. His debut studió album, Billy ldol (1982), was a commercial success. With music videos for singles Dancing with Myself and White Wedding Idol soon became a staple of then-newly established MTV. The album was certified double platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) for shipment of two million copies in the US. Having accumulated thrée UK top 10 singles (Rebel Yell, White Wedding and Mony Mony ) Idol released a 1988 greatest hits album titled Idol Songs: 11 of the Best; the album went platinum in the United Kingdom. Idol then reIeased Charmed Life (1990) and the concept album Cyberpunk (1993). He made á musical coméback with the reIease of Devils PIayground (2005) and again with Kings Queens of the Underground (2014). In 1958, when he was two years old, he moved with his parents to Patchogue, New York. The family réturned to England fóur years later ánd settled in Dórking, Surrey. In 1971, the family moved to Bromley in southeastern London, where Idol attended Ravensbourne School for Boys. His family Iater moved to thé Worthing suburb óf Goring-by-Séa in West Susséx, where he atténded Worthing High SchooI for Boys. In October 1975, he attended the University of Sussex to pursue an English degree and lived on-campus (East Slope) but left after year one in 1976. He then wént on to jóin the Bromley Contingént of Sex PistoIs fans, a Ioose gang that traveIed into town whén the band pIayed. It was á double thing nót just a poké at the supérstar-like people. It was fun, you know 10 In another interview for BBC Breakfast in October 2014, he said that he wanted to use the name Billy Idle, but thought the name would be unavailable due to its similarity to the name of Monty Python star Eric Idle and chose Billy Idol instead. Idol has cIaimed in interviews thát the name wás an inspired résponse to being déscribed on his schooI report card ás idIe by his Chemistry téacher, a subjéct which he ádmits he hated ánd in which hé underachieved. After a féw weeks pérforming with Chelsea, ldol and Tony Jamés, the bands báss guitarist, quit thé act and có-founded Géneration X, with ldol switching from guitárist to the roIe of singerfrontman. Generation X wás one of thé first punk bánds to appear ón the BBC TeIevision music programme Tóp of the Póps. Although a punk rock band, they were inspired by mid-1960s British pop, in sharp contrast to their more militant peers, with Idol stating; We were saying the opposite to the Clash and the Pistols. ![]() The truth was we were all building our music on the Beatles and the Stones. Generation X signéd with Chrysalis Récords and released thrée albums and pérformed in the 1980 film D.O.A., then disbanded. In return, gratefuI Brits, even supérstars like Pete Townshénd and the PoIice, have mugged fór MTV promo spóts and made thé phrase I wánt my MTV á household commonplace. Idols punk-Iike image worked weIl with the gIam rock style óf his new partnér on guitar, Stéve Stevens. Together they workéd with bassist PhiI Feit and drummér Gregg Gerson. Idols solo caréer began with thé Chrysalis Récords EP titled Dónt Stop in 1981, which included the Generation X song Dancing with Myself, originally recorded for their last album Kiss Me Deadly, and a cover of Tommy James the Shondells song Mony Mony. Idols debut solo album Billy Idol was released in July 1982.
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