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Billy Idol is to be given a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
By Simon Young published
If you're ever outside the Amoeba Music shop, be sure to look down on the pavement and check it out

Godfather of punk Iggy Pop to play huge UK show with Blondie, a Sex Pistols/Generation X supergroup and more
By Paul Brannigan published
Punk's not dead, as a new Iggy Pop-headlined outdoor show in London next summer will testify

Billy Idol's The Cage is compact, catchy, precision-tooled pop-rock
By Chris Roberts published
Stanmore’s finest Billy Idol gets his motor running on his second EP in a year, The Cage

The eight best new rock songs given to the world this week
By Polly Glass published
New music from Billy Idol, The Struts, The Hu, Clutch, Big Big Train and more

Listen to Billy Idol's snarling new single Cage
By Paul Brannigan published
Billy Idol shares the title track of his forthcoming EP The Cage, which he says is "a little more rock ‘n’ roll, a little more f**k you!"

Toyah and Robert Fripp share a reliably unhinged version of Billy Idol's Rebel Yell
By Paul Brannigan last updated
For those wondering what Toyah and Robert Fripp served up for Sunday Lunch this weekend, wonder no more

Billy Idol: an extraordinary life, and vivid proof that dreams do come true
By Ian Fortnam published
It was the arrival of MTV in the 80s that made former London punk Billy Idol one of the era’s stars, but with the fame came a whole load of problems. Lived a life? You bet

How Billy Idol turned a song of crazed vengeance into the hit that made him a star
By Carol Clerk published
From going nowhere in London with Generation X, to pop star and transatlantic hits, all it took Billy Idol was 15 minutes in a studio, and his sister getting pregnant
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