IDOL NEWS

JOIN BILLY IDOL ON TWITTER @billyidol #bfi
April 28, 2015

BILLY IDOL TO ROCK 11TH ANNUAL MUSICARES BENEFIT

Billy Idol, Joan Jett and more will perform at the 11th Annual MusiCares Map Fund benefit concert at the Best Buy Theater in New York City next month. Proceeds from the event will go toward MusiCares’ programs aimed at helping musicians struggling with addiction.

The event will take place on May 28th and will honor Pete Townshend as well as The Who’s longtime manager/music and film producer Bill Curbishley. Bruce Springsteen will present Townshend with the Stevie Ray Vaughan Award for his dedication and support of the MusiCares MAP Fund and its addiction recovery programs. Doug Morris, CEO of Sony Music Entertainment, will present Curbishley with the MusiCares From the Heart Award by for his unconditional friendship and dedication to the mission and goals of the organization.

The 11th Annual MusiCares Map Fund benefit will feature performances from Billy Idol, Joan Jett, Foreigner guitarist Mick Jones and more, who will be announced

See More›
Posted in: EVENTS/PRESS
Billy Idol Autobiography
April 20, 2015

IDOL PUMPS UP THE LA TIMES FESTIVAL OF BOOKS

April 18, 2015 Saba Hamedy–LA Times
Billy Idol sang his way onto the stage (literally) to talk about his memoir at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books on Saturday.

“I’m ready ready ready to discuss rock ‘n’ roll,” Idol sang as he strutted onto the L.A. Times stage at USC. “Hopefully I don’t really need an introduction.”

It’s true, he really didn’t need an intro: Crowds of book festival attendees arrived at the stage area early to save seats. Others packed the surrounding grassy area, standing to get a better view of the 1980s British rocker. “Bookchella,” indeed.

The lively musician, who still sports his iconic spiked bleached hair look, pumped up attendees with

See More›
Posted in: AUTOBIOGRAPHY/PRESS/VIDEO
Shit From The Lip
April 16, 2015

UPDATE FROM BILLY 4.16.15

Hi Mates,

The Aussie/NZ tour was magic! The audience participation was really fun and we as a band were playing more & more ‘as one’ as the dates flew by and we rocked with you. Also nice being joined by Cheap Trick’s Rick Nielsen & Robin Zander in Melbourne, AU & Christchurch, NZ for “LA Woman”… thanks Guys! It’s great to feel the musical entity

See More›
Posted in: SHIT FROM THE LIP
April 14, 2015

LA TIMES FESTIVAL OF BOOKS APRIL 18

Billy Idol will be appearing at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books this Saturday, April 18th at 3:40pm.

The Festival will take place in USC’s Alumni Park, near Downtown Los Angeles. Billy will be interviewed live on stage about his bestselling autobiography, Dancing With Myself, and he will also personally read from the book. His appearance on the LA Times Festival Stage will be followed by a short book signing.

See More›
Posted in: AUTOBIOGRAPHY/EVENTS
Billy Idol New Album
April 8, 2015

IDOL GETS HIGH OFF THE MUSIC

Vicki Anderson for Stuff.co.nz, New Zealand, 20 March 2015
Spiky peroxide-blonde- haired Billy Idol repeats the word “masturbatory” three times with a sneer.

The leather-clad rocker who led an MTV-fuelled generation is telling me about a disco in Tokyo, Japan, he visited in the late 1970s, when dance clubs were still in the passionate embrace of disco’s Saturday Night Fever.

“We went to this dance club and these kids were all dressed up like John Travolta and dancing with themselves,” Idol says chattily.

“They weren’t dancing together, they were dancing to their own reflections. It was like a masturbatory kind of thing to do. If I haven’t got a partner I can fixate on myself, dance with myself.”

The experience led to the hit 80s hit song Dancing with Myself, which is also the title of his recently released autobiography. He challenged himself to write the book, he says, as his way of evoking something of a punk rock ethic.

“In the days of punk rock we believed in trying to do things yourself. I wondered if I could

See More›
Posted in: PRESS
Billy Idol and Steve Stevens
April 2, 2015

NEW DATE FOR POSTPONED NEW ORLEANS SHOW

House of Blues New Orleans is very excited to announce Billy Idol’s postponed January 21st concert has been rescheduled on September 28th, 2015 at 8pm.

Says Billy: “I’m thrilled to be coming back to rock New Orleans in September with Steve Stevens and the rest of the band! Thanks to all my fans in the Big Easy for your patience. This is going to be a fun one!”

All valid tickets for the January 21st date will be honored at the door on the rescheduled date.

A very limited amount of tickets and VIP Meet-n-Greet ticket packages for the rescheduled show on September 28th will be released for purchase TODAY (April 2) at 12 Noon on LiveNation.com, HouseofBlues.com, and Ticketmaster.com.

For more information, please call House of Blues Box Office at (504) 310-4999.

Posted in: TOUR DATES
Billy Idol Concert Review
March 25, 2015

MELBOURNE SHOW REVIEW

Review: Billy Idol – March 24, 2015, Margaret Court Arena, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Harry Williams, thedwarf.com.au

“A lengthy atmospheric instrumental intro and then suddenly he [Billy Idol] runs out of the darkness and onto one of three risers and there he is, bouncing around. The spritely punk is back, as youthful, buffed and boisterous as ever. Resplendent in trademark leathers, with his attitude, ego, sneer and trademark yelps at the ready…

See More›
Posted in: PRESS/TOUR DATES
March 24, 2015

BILLY IDOL & CHEAP TRICK JAM IN MELBOURNE

Billy Idol, Steve Stevens and the band jammed with tour mates Rick Nielsen and Robin Zander of Cheap Trick for a rendition of LA Woman at the Margaret Court Arena in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia on March 24! Watch the video…

See More›
Posted in: VIDEO
Billy Idol Tour Dates
March 17, 2015

PERTH AUSTRALIA SHOW REVIEW

“Idol looked, moved and delivered like a man decades shy of his vintage, and it’s an example his well-oiled band obviously holds themselves to.”–Grant McCulloch, The Western Australian

See More›
Posted in: PRESS
Billy Idol Interview
February 26, 2015

NEW BILLY IDOL INTERVIEW (VIDEO)

Billy Idol and Steve Stevens performed a rare acoustic club gig at The Turf Club on January 19 in St. Paul, MN in front of 350 lucky fans to celebrate 89.3FM The Current’s 10th Anniversary. Watch the video of Billy’s interview with The Current’s Mary Lucia below along with live clips from the intimate performance.

See More›
Posted in: PRESS/VIDEO
Billy Idol - LA Weekly
February 12, 2015

IDOL FEATURE IN LA WEEKLY

Billy was recently profiled in a fantastic piece by Andy Hermann for LA Weekly.

Excerpt:
From the living room of his house, high up in the Hollywood Hills, Billy Idol gazes out across the Los Angeles Basin, remembering when the city was on fire.

“Even in the daytime, you could see the smoke,” he says, describing his bird’s-eye view of the Rodney King riots in April 1992. “And ash was raining out of the sky.”

At the time of the riots, Idol was one of the biggest stars in rock. But privately, his life had been unraveling for some time. In 1989, he separated from his girlfriend of 10 years, dancer-choreographer Perri Lister, a split that sent him plunging deeper into drug abuse. A gruesome motorcycle accident in the heart of Hollywood the following year nearly cost him his leg.

After limping through an international tour with a cane, he was back at home, struggling to stay sober as he toiled on the most ambitious album of his career, Cyberpunk, with neither of his most trusted collaborators, guitarist Steve Stevens and producer Keith Forsey, to guide him.

In the fires of the riots, Idol saw a parallel to his own life. “I’d been polluting myself with drugs. So it wasn’t so different for me to start seeing the world as polluting itself.”

It would take years, but Idol finally detoxed. Now he stands as an improbable survivor not only of drug abuse and motorcycle accidents but

See More›
Posted in: PRESS
January 27, 2015

WORLD CAFE INTERVIEW & ACOUSTIC SET

Billy Idol will be appearing on NPR’s World Cafe on Thursday, January 29th! Billy’s episode of the acclaimed public radio show will include an interview with Billy by host David Dye, and an exclusive acoustic set from Billy and his band. You can hear the online stream of the program on Thursday, January 29 at 2pm ET at xpn.org

World Cafe is broadcast on over 200 NPR Stations nationwide.

See More›
Posted in: RADIO
Billy Idol Tour 2015
January 22, 2015

2015 EUROPEAN SUMMER TOUR DATES

European summer festival and individual tour dates have been announced for shows in the UK, Germany, Austria, Ireland, Sweden, France and Italy, including some of the larger European festivals such as Download Festival, Hellfest, Rock The Ring and Isle of Wight Festival. More European dates will be announced soon so be sure to also follow Billy Idol on Facebook and Twitter for updates!

VIEW CURRENT TOUR DATES

See More›
Posted in: TOUR DATES
Billy Idol by Shepard Fairey
January 21, 2015

LIMITED EDITION IDOL SCREEN PRINT

18 x 24 inch screen print, numbered edition of 400. Metallic silver ink on grey stock. Signed by Shepard Fairey. Limit 1 per person, per household. $50. Based on a photo by Michael Muller. Release date: Wednesday January 21, 2015.

DETAILS – BUY NOW

Message from the artist:

“I have been fortunate to work with Billy Idol on several creative projects including his “Devil’s Playground” album package and his “Idolize Yourself” greatest hits package. Billy invited me once again to help with the art for his most recent album “Kings & Queens of the Underground.” Billy played the record for me and I was impressed with the stylistic range and especially loved the songs “Can’t Break Me Down,” “Save Me Now,” and “Whiskey and Pills.” I asked my friend, photographer Michael Muller (with whom I’d collaborated on the “Walk the Line” movie poster), to shoot the portraits for the package and he did a great job. I’m happy with the way the album package turned out, and as part of the project I was able to make an illustration of Billy based on one of Michael’s portraits, which I incorporated into this poster to accompany the “Kings & Queens of the Underground” album and tour. I’m very happy with how the poster turned out. On a side note, the “Kings & Queens of the Underground” album is heavily autobiographical because Billy was simultaneously working on his autobiography entitled “Dancing With Myself.” I’ve had the privilege of hearing amazing stories from Billy about his days in the London punk scene seeing the Sex Pistols, forming Generation X, and then moving to NY to go solo. His book tells all of these stories in an amazingly vivid and evocative style. Billy is a superb writer and I’d recommend the book for any fan of rebel music and personal creative evolution. Billy puts on an unbelievably energetic and charismatic live show, so check him out on tour if you have the chance. Oh, Steve Stevens, Billy’s guitarist and long-time collaborator is an absolute shredder. They shouldn’t be missed.” -Shepard Fairey

Posted in: MERCHANDISE
Billy Idol VIP Upgrades
January 20, 2015

NEW ORLEANS & ATLANTA SHOWS POSTPONED

We regret to announce that the first two shows of Billy’s North American tour, in New Orleans on Wednesday, January 21 and in Atlanta on Thursday, January 22, will be postponed. Billy is unfortunately suffering from a pesky chest infection and is on doctor’s orders to recover for a few days before hitting the stage again.

“I’m really disappointed to be missing everyone this week in the Big Easy and Atlanta. I was excited for these gigs but want to make sure I can give you the full on Idol rock show you deserve. Thank you for understanding while I get over this bug. We’ll be back later this year!” – Billy

All other shows on the tour, beginning at the Tower Theatre in Philadelphia (Upper Darby), PA on January 24, will go on as planned. Fans with tickets to the New Orleans, LA and Atlanta, GA shows should hold on to their tickets until information about the rescheduled dates becomes available in the near future.

Posted in: TOUR DATES
Knaggs Guitars - Steve Stevens SSII
January 16, 2015

KNAGGS GUITARS ANNOUNCE THE STEVE STEVENS SSII

Grammy-Award winning virtuoso and long time Billy Idol collaborator Steve Stevens and Knaggs Guitars proudly announce the Steve Stevens Signature model SS2. Tailored to Steve’s specs and preferences, it will accompany the legendary guitarist on Billy Idol’s 2015 World tour.

Limited to only 100 instruments in 3 available colors (Red Sparkle, Cream and Black) the SS2 features a Mahogany body with

See More›
Posted in: STEVE STEVENS
Billy Idol Tour Dates
January 13, 2015

N. AMERICAN TOUR KICKS OFF JAN 21!

The North American leg of Billy Idol’s “Kings & Queens of the Underground” Tour kicks off on January 21 in New Orleans, LA! Tickets for many shows are sold-out so don’t delay in securing your tickets now! Confirmed dates listed below and ticketing info. is available on the tour page.

See More›
Posted in: TOUR DATES