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(July
6 th 1998)
Billy
Idol is about to make a comeback. After making up with guitarist and
co-songwriter
Steve Stevens, the duo have written new songs and Idol passed
a
demo on to Glen Ballard. Ballard owns the new label Java Records and
discovered
and co-wrote the songs on Alanis Morissettes Jagged Little Pill.
Idol
has told the L.A. Times that he has "kicked all his bad habits". The
album
is expected to be released early next year. Java records is also the
home
to Lisa Marie Presley and Terence Trent D'Arby.
Credit
: Mike Lavoie
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The above pictures are from MTV website of Billy Idols appearance with "Third Eye Blind " . They also have other Idol news and a cool" Quicktime movie" clip of Billy with Third Eye Blind . Go to MTV with link below and do an Billy Idol search .
Credit: Ruthi Balansche
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This picture is of an ' Idol Display ' at the ' Hard Rock Cafe ' in Mexico . So if any Idolers are planning a trip to Mexico , be sure to check it out .
As early '80s bands such as the Culture Club and Bow Wow Wow are returning to reap the benefits of nostalgia, late '70s acts appear to be making a comeback of their own, led by the B-52s and its announced summer tour. Now an unreleased recording by Generation X, the punkish New Wave band fronted by Billy Idol, has emerged after being locked away in a vault since 1979.
The album, entitled "Sweet Revenge," features 11 tracks, including the original demo version of "Dancing With Myself," a song Idol would later recast as a solo effort on his 1981 debut EP, "Don't Stop."
According to a publicist for Mutiny Records, the label issuing the "lost" album, "Sweet Revenge" was scheduled to be Generation X's third album, but was abandoned after Idol left the group after attempting to instill Kiss' managers as their own.
Sessions for "Sweet Revenge" were originally held in July 1979 at Olympic Studios in London and featured the original band line-up of Billy Idol on vocals, Bob Andrews on guitar, Tony James on bass and John Towe on drums .
After Generation X split-up, guitarist Andrews held onto the tapes and locked them away before finally unearthing them earlier this year, some two decades after the music was initially recorded.
Credit : Mike Lavoie
Nov. 2 1998
Billy Idol went nearly unrecognized
at L.A.'s Sports Center Bowl, where the rocker recently turned up in gray
sweats sans makeup, leather, jewelry or hair mousse but with son Willem
Wolfe, 10. The two bowled together in the far right lane, and when it was
all over, father had beaten son 139 to 101. But it seems a rematch is in
order. "I'm gonna kill you next time, I swear," promised Willem as they
left the lanes.
Taken From January 25
1999 People Magazine / Insider .
Credit : Ruthi
Balansche January 16 , 1999 .
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