October 24, 2023
December 30, 2022
Billy Idol will be presented with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Los Angeles on Thursday, January 5th at 11:30 am PT.
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September 23, 2022
Billy Idol is back with The Cage EP which is available now via Dark Horse Records. The new music follows the release of Idol’s 2021 The Roadside EP, which included the Top 15 hit “Bitter Taste” and received praise from fans and critics alike. As on The Roadside EP, Idol is joined on the new project by his longtime collaborator, co-writer and guitarist Steve Stevens.
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June 20, 2022
Billy Idol returns to Las Vegas at The Chelsea at the Cosmopolitan this November!
Show dates:
Friday, November 11, 2022
Saturday, November 12, 2022
Wednesday, November 16, 2022
Friday, November 18, 2022
Saturday, November 19, 2022
Venue: The Chelsea at The Cosmopolitan – Las Vegas, NV
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November 15, 2021
Billy Idol will be Journey’s very special guest on the following tour dates in the U.S. and Canada!
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October 29, 2021
On November 5, Billy Idol is releasing a remixed and remastered version of his Christmas album, Happy Holidays, for the first time on vinyl and streaming platforms via Dark Horse Records. Originally released in 2006, the album features Idol performing a wide variety of Christmas classics as well as the new original bonus track, “On Christmas Day,” which features Steve Stevens on guitar.
Produced by Idol and Brian Tichy, the new release of Happy Holidays has been remixed and remastered by Paul Hicks, known for his work remixing classic records from The Beatles, George Harrison, John Lennon, and The Rolling Stones. Happy Holidays has also been packaged with new artwork and is available for purchase on black vinyl, CD, digital, and on limited edition white vinyl.
“Before our 2006 European tour, I recorded a number of seasonal songs,” recalls Idol. “A tree-trimming, fireside, Christmas Eve, Christmas Day intimate album was the result. Most probably essential at Christmas, is that the music is in the spirit. Knowing that family, friends, and children might be listening, I wanted a selection that would please all, while still exploring the awe and mystery that is Christmas.”
Happy Holidays is available for pre-order now on CD or vinyl LP in the official store!
Happy Holidays tracklist:
1. Frosty The Snowman
2. Silver Bells
3. Happy Holiday
4. White Christmas
5. Here Comes Santa Claus
6. God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen
7. Santa Claus Is Back In Town
8. Let It Snow
9. Winter Wonderland
10. Run Rudolph Run
11. Jingle Bell Rock
12. O Christmas Tree
13. Silent Night
14. Auld Lang Syne
15. On Christmas Day*
*New original track featuring Steve Stevens on guitar.
October 5, 2021
Billy Idol & Steve Stevens acoustic shows announced! Ticket and VIP Meet & Greet package presales for Billy Idol & Steve Stevens “Turned On, Tuned In, and Unplugged” begin Wednesday, October 6 at 10am local venue time with
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October 4, 2021
Billy Idol returns to Germany, Hungary, and Austria in summer 2022! Ticket and VIP Meet & Greet package presales begin Tuesday, October 5 at 10am CET with
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September 27, 2021
Billy Idol returns to the United Kingdom in June 2022! Tickets are on sale now! VIP Meet & Greet Packages are available for all 2022 UK shows while they last!
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September 17, 2021
Billy Idol’s new EP, The Roadside—his first new release in nearly seven years—is out now on Dark Horse Records! Produced by Butch Walker (Green Day, Weezer) and featuring Idol’s longtime lead guitarist and co-writer Steve Stevens, The Roadside was conceived, recorded, and
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August 11, 2021
Billy Idol is set to release a new EP, The Roadside—his first new release in nearly seven years—on September 17 via Dark Horse Records. Produced by Butch Walker (Green Day, Weezer) and featuring Idol’s longtime lead guitarist and co-writer Steve Stevens, The Roadside was conceived, recorded, and mixed almost entirely under the shadow of the pandemic.
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July 30, 2021
Lollapalooza 2021 kicked off on July 29 with a surprise guest appearance by Billy Idol during Miley Cyrus’ set!
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July 28, 2021
Billy Idol recently spoke with the LA Times on the 40th anniversary of the launch of MTV on August 1, 1981.
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November 27, 2020
Miley Cyrus’ seventh album, released November 27, features collaborations with Dua Lipa, Billy Idol, Joan Jett, and Stevie Nicks.
Stretching across 15 tracks and 50 minutes playing time, Plastic Hearts includes the previously-released singles “Midnight Sky” “Prisoner” (with Lipa) and “Edge of Midnight” (with Nicks).
Plastic Hearts features “Night Crawling” a collaboration with Billy Idol. In a recent interview with Apple Music’s Zane Lowe, Miley recounted how Billy Idol’s works had inspired her album and attitude. “His music… the way that he married rebellion but also his music where he had incredible hooks. And he showed me that I could have balance, that I could make music that I and other people love,” she said. “And sometimes I’ve lost that and I’ve found that again where it’s like, ‘I want to make music for me.’”
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February 27, 2020
New York City is partnering up with rock star and environmentalist Billy Idol to launch a public awareness Anti-Idling campaign for New York City. A motor vehicle may not idle for more than three minutes in New York City, except in a school zone, where the limit is one minute. The campaign will run through the end of March with the goal of encouraging drivers to shut off their engine when they’re not driving. #BillyNeverIdles
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January 14, 2020
Greetings BFIers!
Like you, I’ve been watching the terrible fires in Australia with great concern. The damage to humans and wildlife alike thus far has been devastating and as we prepare to come to play in Australia and New Zealand in the coming days our thoughts are with those dealing with the ongoing crisis.
To help support fire relief efforts in Australia I’m honored to do the following
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August 6, 2019
June 21, 2019
May 28, 2019
Billy Idol will be headlining the 2020 Summer Concert Tour in New Zealand!
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April 29, 2019
LOS ANGELES (April 29, 2019) – This summer, two rock legends – Bryan Adams and Billy Idol – will hit the road together for an epic run of U.S. co-headlining dates. Produced by Live Nation, the special limited 8-city outing kicks off August 1st in Gilford, NH and will also make stops in Uncasville, CT, Wantagh, NY, Syracuse, NY, Clarkston, MI, Darien Center, NY, and Holmdel, NJ, before wrapping August 12th in Bristow, VA.
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April 17, 2019
Review of Billy Idol & Steve Stevens Duo Tour – Lincoln Theater, Washington, D.C., April 1, 2019
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April 2, 2019
Review of Billy Idol & Steve Stevens Duo Tour – The Town Hall, New York City, March 28, 2019
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March 7, 2019
On April 13, Chrysalis Records will release a Record Store Day exclusive featuring a previously unreleased mix of the Generation X classic single ‘Your Generation [Winstanley Mix]’ b/w ‘Trying For Kicks [Winstanley Mix]’ as a limited edition red vinyl 7” single.
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February 18, 2019
On 26th April, Chrysalis will release a Deluxe Edition of Generation X, the self-titled 1978 debut album by one of the great British punk bands of the late 1970s.
Generation X’s story is deeply rooted in the London punk scene. Singer Billy Idol was a member of the hugely influential Bromley Contingent while bassist Tony James had played with both Mick Jones and Brian James who went on to form The Clash and The Damned respectively. Both Idol and Tony James joined punk band Chelsea in early 1976 before leaving to form Generation X.
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February 12, 2019
Billy Idol will perform this October in Mexico for the first time ever. Presales begin February 20!
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January 15, 2019
Billy Idol and Steve Stevens, one of rock’s most iconic and enduring duos, will hit the road in March 2019 for their first ever tour performing as a duo: ‘Turned On, Tuned In and Unplugged’.
Fans across North America will have an opportunity to enjoy their hits, deeper album cuts and songs that influenced them both in a new and intimate setting. Plus, hear spoken word interludes from Billy Idol adding color to the stories behind the songs and career of one of rock’s most compelling survivors.
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October 13, 2018
September 18, 2018
Palms Casino Resort and Live Nation present Billy Idol: Las Vegas 2019 Presented by SiriusXM. The 10-show run begins Jan. 18, 2019 and continues with dates throughout January and October 2019.
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May 15, 2018
Additional Billy Idol Live! 2018 Tour dates in the U.S have been added for September and October! The latest fall dates announced begin September 12 in Portland, OR and include festival appearances at KAABOO Del Mar and the Foo Fighters’ own Cal Jam.
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December 14, 2017
Billy Idol LIVE! 2018 UK and European Tour Dates have been announced! Get ticket info now!
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May 9, 2016
BILLY IDOL BRINGS AN UNBRIDLED ENERGY TO HIS HOUSE OF BLUES RESIDENCY
John Katsilometes, Las Vegas Weekly (Photo: John Salangsang/Invision/AP):
Even during a phone conversation, you feel Billy Idol is pumping that leather-clad right fist. More, more, more.
He’s not to be stopped, the 60-year-old rock star who unleashed a string of hits in the early and mid-1980s that still stand today. Idol effectively name-checks a few of those classics later in the conversation to promote his upcoming House of Blues residency. He sweeps onto the Strip this week with his production, titled Billy Idol: Forever, and it’s reportedly doing brisk sales. He’s back in May, and this week even more shows were added for August, September and October. Some highlights of our chat:
I saw you in 1982 in Chico, California, at Acker Gymnasium at Chico State University. The next time I saw you was in 2010 at the Pearl at the Palms, 28 years later, and you’d lost none of your energy. How have you been able to keep up your exuberance throughout your career?
I think it has a lot to do with the music, and the intent behind the music. Coming from punk rock, there is a
April 19, 2016
“Billy Idol was among British punk’s first wave, beginning with Generation X in the late seventies, and going on to become one of the first punk acts to succeed in the video medium in the eighties. To many, he defined the look, style, and snarl of punk, and he’s not afraid to claim the mantle. He narrates his memoir in his unmistakable Cockney accent, which befits the more lurid tales of excess as well as
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March 17, 2016
WITH A ‘REBEL YELL,’ BILLY IDOL FIST-PUMPS HIS WAY INTO LAS VEGAS
By Matt Kelemen, Las Vegas Magazine, March 11, 2016:
The Billy Idol: Forever series of shows at Mandalay Bay’s House of Blues isn’t just the latest rock star residency in Vegas. It’s also the final chapter of Billy Idol’s most ambitious tour since his ’80s heyday, with guitarist Steve Stevens on board playing Sundance Kid to his Butch Cassidy. The prince of ’80s post-punk has been on the road since the October 2014 release of King & Queens of the Underground, his audio companion to autobiography Dancing with Myself, and judging from a high-profile appearance in February’s iHeart80s Party in the Forum in L.A., the adulation received on tour is only making him stronger.
The fact that Idol soldiers on at all—let alone while sporting a six-pack that enables him to perform shirtless at age 60—testifies to his status as a true rock ’n’ roll survivor. Idol was part of the original pack of Sex Pistols followers and one of many fans that started a band. Generation X outlived the initial blast of British punk, with spiky-haired Idol going against the grain by demonstrating
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September 19, 2015
David Von Bader, Broward/Palm Beach New Times, Sept 18, 2015:
Among the copious guitar heroes the 1980s gave us, Steve Stevens — best-known as Billy Idol’s capo and lead collaborator — remains in a class of his own. By Idol’s own admission, Stevens’ eclectic fretboard pyrotechnics and deft sense of arrangement were the emulsifying agents that helped make Idol’s
June 22, 2015
Robert Cavuoto, Guitar International, June 21 2015:
Not many guitar players can flawlessly cross as many musical boundaries as Steve Stevens has done in his career. His prolific and innovative playing has changed the face of music, and together with Billy Idol, they helped revolutionizing a new genre of music.
Whether you consider their brand of music; New Wave, dance rock, or rock n’ roll they rode the crest to become MTV staples and musical icons.
Guitar players around the globe scratched their heads trying to duplicate Steve’s unique sound, asking “Was it a guitar, synth, keyboard or all of the above?”
Being a self-proclaimed techno head, Steve has emerged as a quintessential force, capable of magically and successfully marrying it all altogether without sacrificing the main objective – making great music!
A true “orchestrator” as he likes to say.
With his extraordinary stage charisma, leather outfits, long spikey hair, and amazing chops he caught the attention of hard rock & metal fans.
It was apparent that Steve was not content with conquering just one genre of music and took his unique playing technique and versatility to new heights, playing with such musical legends as Michael Jackson, Vince Neil, Robert Palmer and Joni Mitchell.
I had the pleasure of sitting down with a Steve to talk about
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April 28, 2015
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
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April 20, 2015
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
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April 8, 2015
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
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March 25, 2015
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…
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March 18, 2015